Nice article from the Financial Times on the token gaijins on the telly.
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Ha ha - I just found this. Awesome. Selling snowmen to the Japanese. People buy...I'll try it if I can get my hands on it....Not quite as bad as Nakashima Mika's version (honestly what could be?), but...OH wait a minute...it is damn pricey for just a three pack....This might actually be good. I look forward to giving it a try....Congrats on getting photo of the week in the current...well done Danny!! I'm sold! (-:...Good point. Maybe he had a senior moment....I thought the pictures were great! Nice review. :-)...But if he's Catholic...where's that put HIS work ethic? Ha ha. What wins out?...
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Darn, I got it for free from News on Japan. Does this work for you?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/593c8956-b71c-11dd-8e01-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1
If so, please change the URL, thanks!
Nope - it wants me to register too... :-/
Follow these instructions:
http://www.bugmenot.com/view/ft.com
If you still want to read (it is a good article!) try:
http://news.google.com/news?q=Japan%E2%80%99s%20adopted%20talking%20heads
And pick the first link...
It's the infotainment hair and the voice affectations. Have never met him. But I do keep hearing he's a nice guy. (Maybe he is disliked in part because of those allegations regarding his US resume)
I have never had any hate for the guy. Actually, I have always thought it was kind of cool that he can do the news on TV in Japan. My gal thinks he is cool.
Interesting article. I'd never heard of him but it never occurred to me to "hate" someone entertaining on television. If I don't like the content of their performance that's another thing but would be based on that, not that they are a foreigner.
On the other hand I do lose respect for all those foreign actors who do ads here that wouldn't do them in the US - can't bear a hypocrite.
I've never disliked Dave Spector. If anything I'm envious of his Japanese skills. He is an odd character, but I'd say any hate for him is probably seeded in the hater's issues with their status as a foreigner in Japan. That's my armchair psychologist take on the subject.
Not feeling any hate for Spector, or most of the other foreigners who show up as regular tarento on TV here. Yeah, some can be really annoying, but I have to admire a guy like Spector for what he's accomplished languagewise and in terms of carving out a niche for himself and exhibiting the staying power necessary to last in a business that chews most up and spits them out.
I've never hated Spector. Quite the contrary, he's someone to look up to, and I've got enough in common with the guy that if I loathed him, I'd be indirectly loathing myself. (Jewish American, exchange program at Jouchi [Sophia] University, and obviously an interest in Japan)
I think why a lot of foreigners in Japan dislike "the others" on TV is because they are secretly jealous. There is a condescension associated with TV appearances, but as Mr. Spector himself once put it,
"A lot of times the foreigners on TV, models and what-not, are compared to pandas. They use that term here--pandas-- because they're cuddly, you can go and have fun with them, and throw a marshmallow and that's about it. And you don't get involved any more deeper than that. But...since I'm making half a million dollars a year, I'm very happy to be a panda. I'd be a much lower animal. I'd be like a sloth, or something, or a hedgehog, you know, for that money. So it doesn't bother me at all."
I'm not going to try and fool myself - I'd be a panda for half a million dollars a year, too.