Lol how do you even know for sure the nationality of the posters? It's pretty easy to disguise oneself under a foreign username. It's useless to guess which group of ubers is behind the comments. As a general rule, it's is always good to close out the comment section, because the comment section of almost every skating video featuring well-known skaters that I've seen are filled with trollish arguments.
I've spent extended periods in both countries, and I have noticed that Japanese and Koreans tend to be able to learn each other's languages much more quickly and easily than anyone else.
Hmm I think they are both similar to the Chinese language, more so than to each other. There are words in Korean that sound very similar to their equivalent in Chinese. The Japanese language sound less similar but there are many Chinese characters found in Kanji.
Ooh, we're talking about linguistics? Great, I love linguistics.
Korean is actually considered by many linguists to be a language isolate, which means that it is unrelated to any other language today, including Japanese. It's actually pretty amazing to think about, especially when you consider that most other language isolates out there are either dead or in danger of dying. Korean, with over 70 million (?) speakers, has more than every other language isolate combined.
That said, some people have proposed that Korean is actually related to the Altaic languages, which would include Japanese. But no definite connection has been established; I believe that Korean is still officially considered an isolate at this point.
Korean did borrow a lot of words from Chinese, and I'd be interested in knowing whether Japan's previous imperialism/colonization of Korea had any effect on the language.
Definitely Mao fans who hit the dislike button.
Yuna fans aint got time for Akiko.
Not every fanatic must be bad, quite the opposite actually
If I look at myself there then I see someone who spends a lot of money on events, who loves sports just as much as he likes music. While others build their second home, I still travel around the world to every type of competition in sports that I can afford.
Lots of people in my family or neighborhood keep asking me why I do it and if I am not a bit nuts
Truth is, I might be nuts - but I also don't want to change what I am doing. Music & Sports are very important to me and therefore I don't mind sitting at the ice rink for 16 hours a day, to travel for 10 hours just because of a gig etc. Its what I love and like doing and yes its fanatic, but its also a big part of my life
You have people like me quite often in sports. I know a group of people called the "fanatics", those appear at several events and are like an Australian travelling group of thousands of members now. Such people we need at sports in my opinion, people who are just more into it than neutral "fans".
That said, hardly anyone of those or other groups are bad people and would insult other athlete´s etc. Those that do these type of things, are usually not really those that go to Events or actually get in touch with athlete´s, musicians etc. They only sit at home in most cases and have nothing better to do than hitting a button below a video :D
Sadly, there are some people who really are rude no doubt about it, but I would probably call that type of "anti fan" a typical "Hater" and those you find a lot at the Internet.
I absolutely understand that it can hurt a skater if she or he see´s so many dislikes, just like it can hurt a skater if you talk bad about her body measurements or other particular things. That's why I always try to stay away from these type of things, due respect to the athlete.
But again, if someone talks about these things then he isn't a bad person either, most people just don't realize that these things can actually hurt someone.
Maybe you must be in public yourself to understand it better, but it also depends a lot of your origin. We have to keep in mind that the earth has about 206 different states, that's a lot of culture and a lot of individuality. People talk and judge differently, whats totally normal in one country, can be totally inappropriate at another.
However, I wouldn't make the mistake and call out a group of fans no matter if Yuna, Ando or who else was mentioned here. Every fanbase can consist of such people, but that doesn't make the whole fanbase bad either.
Its just that you remember negativity more than positivity.