[ayumixfan]

Originally Posted by hpg23

I find the language barrier thing quite stupid. As the article mentions, American music is heard all around the world, even when a lot of people don´t understand English well or even at all (I mean... even when English is a world language most of the world´s population can´t understand a song). So why is it heard still? Because of the amazing voices and the amazing musical compositions of it? Well, no (not saying that American music is all bad, but you understand my point, right?). I´ts because marketing. And the thing is, we, the fans, are not going to make good publicity of J-Pop, because it´s just not enough. It´s Avex and the other record labels who have to invest money on it and give people a chance... C´mon!!!

Apart from that, yes, people are very CLOSE MINDED and sometimes RACIST. I am so tired of them when they say, here in Spain, "Oh, stop listening to chinese "music" " (refering to J-Pop, that´s it). I would just shot them down, really, it gets on my nerves. And the fun thing is, that those people get extremely offended if they get confused with Mexicans or Latin Americans by foreign people. Really, stop being hypocrital and get yourselves a life.

See you say that the marketers don't bother investing, so is that the fault of the people to not want to hear it ? I don't think so. Not everyone is going to look for foreign music to listen to when there's music they like playing in their country. If people around the world listen to american music, thats because they like it. I don't see how that makes them more openminded than north americans. A lot of people internationally INSULT the american culture, yet they listen to the music, what does that tell you. does that meean they're open-minded to the US or just their music >_>

ONCE AGAIN i find ur comment very rude. Uh... jsut because someone mistakens the langauge doesn't mean they're racist =_= I'm asian myself but when I see asians I assume they're chinese or korean, SO WHAT! does that make me racist against my own kind now? No, ok (I like being asian) so they might be kinda close minded on FOREIGN MUSIC, but htat doesn't mean they don't accept foreign cultures at all. Its liek saying I hate apples so I don't accept fruits as a total. one things doesn't cover a whole. I know that its kinda rude of them to tell you to stop listening to that music, but thats just because they're inconsiderate of your preference of music, not being they don't like other cultures.

Sorry, I'm not personally attacking you, but some things you said right there is very offensive IMO. This author is SO rude. She needs to stop making assumptions. If you want to persuade people to try new things, just reason without the insults please.