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Originally Posted by Ghap
Well shock value sells, look at Michael Jackson for example you wouldnt call him an average American citizen but he sold tabloids for decades (even now after his death) and im betting there are many others from groups 2 and 3 above who would go too such extremes for there "15 minutes".
Also gotta ask "proverbs"...really!
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Yup. Pam Anderson as well, and Jordan, both pretty much did body modification to fuel their celebrity.
The guy had pretty much memorized dozens and dozens of Japanese kotowaza.
Japanese proverbs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I mean, it was very impressive, don't get me wrong, but his Japanese was waaaaaaaay above the level of almost everyone else on the exchange and they chose to film him IN my painting class, which he had never before attended. It aired on Japanese TV in 2008 on some show hosted by Jicho Kacho (comedy duo), which might explain why it wasn't really srrss bssnss.
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Originally Posted by missprincess
wow i would love to see these documentaries
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There are some excellent documentaries about Japan, there are also some really bogus ones. There are some with elements of excellence and hype. The thing you have to bear in mind when watching is that they will always pick up on things that are not necessarily wide-spread. The panty vending machine was a good example; news of it got spread as if you could find them on every street corner, which isn't true. They were exceedingly rare and most people wouldn't have dreamed of using one. There was a good BBC doc about fish;
BBC - BBC Four Programmes - Fish! A Japanese Obsession which did look at a lot of extreme practices that the average japanese probably doesn't partake in, but it was more about exploring where these came from than being all 'omg! Japan is weirrrd!"
There was one about some girl who went to kyoto to learn how to be a geisha that was pretty rubbish. She spent the whole time banging on about how she thought they were selling sex and they don't and it's kind of silly and yadda yadda, and nothing came out that was terrifically useful. The Japanorama series was technically good, and mostly true information, but the view of Japan was skewed into certain areas of pop culture which gives a misleading representation.