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Originally Posted by AVPlaya
I mean, your average Americans knows really next to nothing about JPOP culture. They may know what's a geisha but the have no clue who's Hamasaki Ayumi or what NANA the movie is about. So normal Japanese assume that Americans or Westerners either are not into Japanese music/tv/movies due to language differences, or that they're not used to seeing Asians as entertainers (and they would have a point - look at the number of Asians in Hollywood and their roles).  |
Its really quite funny watching the expressions of people near my car at stoplights and driving down the road when I'm blaring something from Yum! Yum! Orange, ZONE's harder stuff, KOTOKO's ~hane~, Ua's jazzy coffeehouse stuff, or just basic japanese ambient/techno/metal.
One motorcycle police officer was by me at the stoplight, leaned over and asked,
"wait.... that's not mexican.... what is...? Is that japanese?"
<nod> ... Hai...
"That's really bizarre.... but cool." (I had one of Ua's more upbeat tunes playing at the time)
... and another convert was made