The more packaged and separated from the people a product is, the less it connects forward it is to the country. The least are like, for example, Sony products. I would say that probably 90 percent of Americans think Sony is an American company. Nobody even had…Which was part of ...
My principle is that the more… Oh, thank you. Nice.
Only my jokes are dangerous. Noah’s principle of pop cultural exports. I will just make it up. Source? “I made it up.”
I’m not dangerous at all.
Oh boy.
Nice. You kill with a pen.
Howdy.
Performance. There some sort of thing where you see the people. The least connected is…
I would do that. I would also try to focus on something with live action. Live action includes TV, movies, and music because you actually see the person.
I would say that, are there video game studios in Taiwan?
Cosplay.
Video games. Video games are huge. I would argue that more than anime, manga, or anything, or fashion or cosplay is the, or however you pronounce that, cosplay, is…
Let’s see. The basics are TV, movies, video games, comics, cartoons. Those are the main…
They just added extra ingredients, used softer, less vinegar in the rice, and then they baked it sometimes. Of course this was just like… Japanese people would be like that’s awesome. When you actually then add in the same techniques with the good ingredients, it’s better than Japanese sushi. Now ...
Invented by a Korean chef in the East Bay. A California roll. That’s really interesting because American sushi was all invented by Koreans. Because when Korea was occupied by Japan, they wanted to eat sushi, but they couldn’t get enough vinegar, and their ingredients were more stale.
Oh, food is great. The thing is that food gets disassociated from the place. Then it’s just…
Definitely not the metaverse, that’s garbage.
Aside from bubble tea, everybody knows that. Which form? See, I don’t know because I’m not an entertainment industry person. If Korea had asked me for advice, I would say I don’t know.
Then Taiwanese do this. Realistically it’s going to take 10 to 15 years, so it’s maybe 10 years at the shortest. It’s a little late of a…
It’s really interesting how they promote the Stuff. Do you know anything about that from having lived…?
It was like, “Everyone’s going to watch.” They even have K-pop groups that are oriented toward various countries. Twice as a K-pop group with Japanese members, that’s styled more like J-Pop. Whereas Black Pink is styled like hip hop. It has a Thai, a New Zealand member, and etc. They ...
I was talking about cultural exports and he said, “Americans don’t want to see Japanese people on screen.” I said, “Are you crazy? That’s all Americans want to see.” their stuff got exported by accident. Whereas Korea, it was very intentional.
…of course beyond Southeast Asia, Chinese people know Jay Chou and stuff. I really feel like South Korea has… Of course Japan succeeded by accident. It was really interesting because I interviewed someone from Kodansha, the Mongo publisher in 2014 or 2015.
You know Jay Chou or whatever is popular…
Yes. This comes too late. I should have come to Taiwan in the ‘90s, but I was a kid so I couldn’t. I didn’t think of this until now, but Taiwan should cultivate pop culture industry. I know there’s Taiwanese pop culture industry that’s domestically focused, or even focused on ...
Here’s the real policy suggestion that I have, and of course this…
The younger generation, because they need to watch anime.
Oh, really? Oh, yes. Went to a tea house that caters to Japanese customers. They spoke Japanese. It was very useful.
When I lived in Japan, I had taken Japanese in college, but then my Japanese was still really bad. For the first year I was there, I made sure to not interact with any English speakers at all.
As long as I learned 1 of the 20…
Including sign language, which I also don’t speak. That just feels weird. I don’t know. I feel like such a jerky American going everywhere in the world expecting people to speak my language. I just feel it’s like a little imperialist, I don’t know.
They were more corrupt. They did a lot of crime and we didn’t, so that’s why they got the show about them. Because they did crime.
We would play them in football every year and there would be fights between us, and our fans, and their fans would give them fist fights because they both cared about football so much. That’s Odessa for me, it’s Friday Nightlights.
That’s where that is. It’s just a small town in the middle of nowhere.
It’s nowhere. Have you heard of Texas A&M University?
College Station.
Here is more like Texas, I feel like, which is where I am originally from.
Also I noticed that.
Oh, you did?
I feel like so few people here speak English.
We’re interviewing you now.
What? How?
Are you serious?
Universal healthcare. I don’t speak the language.
Nice. I’ll consider it.
I’m afraid I could never make a significant contribution. I don’t think blogging is significant enough.
Do people just use as the gold card system, like from residency?
It’s a free society.
Yeah…
They get the job done. Yeah, exactly. Taiwan’s, birth rate is extremely low and so of course you’re going to need a lot of immigrants, right?
