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RiffFantastic 13 points ago +15 / -2

If you’re targeting an American audience, yes big mistake. But what if you’re targeting a massive global audience or a country with one billion people and an emerging middle class?

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theblackprince 4 points ago +4 / -0

I don't think the living generations, in general, care about the anthem much. Many do, but most don't when it comes down to it. We've been hollowing out our nation's core for decades, much of it done while asleep at the wheel. Now we are seeing the effects.

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RiffFantastic 1 point ago +1 / -0

The progressives of this country have been trying to cancel Francis Scott Key for years anyways. They say he had slaves in the 1700s.

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rossiFan -2 points ago +1 / -3

Nobody else gives a fuck about American basketball. So no national anthems at the Olympic games either for nobody? Fucking troll.

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RiffFantastic 5 points ago +6 / -1

How am I a troll? The entertainment business doesn't care about Americans. The only way they can survive is in the global market. They'll gladly sacrifice a few hundred million U.S. customers for the billions they can rake in globally by dropping its national identity. Big Tech is doing the same thing. This is very obvious to anyone paying attention.

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rossiFan -1 points ago +1 / -2

You haven't been out of the country. Or deal with any Chinese. They have a big sense of pride. They're not big on American sports. The Chinese don't want to watch a bunch of big, black Americans playing with a ball.

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RiffFantastic 4 points ago +5 / -1

Wrong on that by many accounts. I would be comfortable waging everything I own that I've traveled to more countries than you. I say that because I personally don't know anybody that has been to more than I have. Furthermore, I have been working almost exclusively with Chinese clients the past five years. I've worked in an industry that supports film, television, and other forms of entertainment for almost twenty years. I finally left my job over the summer because I was so uninspired by the Chinese work and Hollywood's new direction. It really is a disappointing era for the film business.

But you are absolutely correct that the Chinese have a tremendous amount of national pride. I know that. What you don't realize is that most Americans will sell out their own just for a chance to have their movies in Chinese theaters, their shows on Chinese networks, and their sports on Chinese televisions. With the throw of a switch China can shut it all down over the slightest insult to their nation. That's why Hollywood now appeals to Chinese censors before considering the MPAA to greenlight a film. This is not a crack-pot conspiracy theory. It is well known in and out of the biz.