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Old 21st June 2008, 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted by ArchangelLegend View Post
Since we're talking about some cultural differences, here are two cases.

-Kobe Bryant, arguably one of the best NBA basketball players now, cheated on his wife and yet he still makes commercials for Nike. And I don't think anyone even thinks about that any more.

-Hikari Utada, arguable one of the best j-pop singers, does not make any commercials anymore other than for her record label (correct me if I'm wrong) because she, like this poll's first pick choice Kanda Uno, would make one think of divorce.

I chose these two for their similarities; they are very popular and likable in their respective countries and they are good role models for the most part. So one conclusion is that Japan is more sensitive on marital issues than America. Since I'm not too keen on Japanese culture, I have to ask you guys, does this conclusion make sense?
I can't answer with accuracy here because I personally don't know much about japanese culture to be honest, but look at what happened to Ami Suzuki. She was blacklisted in the record industry just because she sued some guy that clearly took advantage over her, but since she had a contract with him, there was this thing in jpan's record industry that it's very rude to sue those you work for (of course the history might be a little different as I personally don't know much about it, but it seems like the reason for her blacklisting was really BS). Also, those HP! scandals with some artists smoking and being suspended or even fired, etc. I doubt this would happen to some fairly famous american artist. I think there's a lot of things about cheating and other issues that involve trust and honor that can really be sensitive to japanese people. I could be very wrong though.
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