>>45168989>Thanks for telling it how it actually is. I'm sick of these beggars talking about how "idol culture" is cruel, sexist, outdated etc. and that the industry should be reformed. Fucking woke monkeys and trannies always thinking they've got the moral high ground.Basically idol culture is built around portraying talents as normal people who developed their skills through hard work. Which inspires their fans by showing they can do the same thing. Natural talent exists, but on its own it's worthless and can actually set you back by making you overconfident.
Whereas in other celebrity cultures, the US especially, there's a greater undercurrent of "you didn't become a star, you were *always* a star and now you're taking your rightful place". The role of hard work is simply to get people to notice you, and in an ideal world the companies would pick the people who deserve it by themselves. Even with shows like American Idol being popular, they shift tracks after they prove their worth.
Obviously I'm generalising and you'll get a variety of attitudes wherever you go. And I'm only talking about *image* rather than how things actually work behind the scenes.
But despite the "Easterners are collectivist, Westerners are individualist" rhetoric, there are veins of American culture which are way more collectivist than Japan, and you can see it in the way politics etc. tend to be framed if you know what to look for. Some people say it comes up less in historically Catholic countries, since they regarded that kind of predeterministic outlook as heresy. Others say it's a side effect of the meltingpot thing.
But it leads to really weird cases like that early Calli stream where she said she moved to Japan hating idols "because they don't work, they just have things handed to them" and then actually met some and realising they worked insanely hard. And she bent over backwards trying to justify her admiration for idols by arguing that BEING AN IDOL is "fighting against idol culture" somehow.
