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In fact, even across the entire world, fewer countries than you might expect have avoided becoming cultural colonies—countries whose cultures have been completely swallowed by those of other nations.

Strangely, the three East Asian countries of Korea, China, and Japan have all maintained cultural markets centered on their own countries.

When you go to a movie theater, it's filled with domestic movies, and domestic dramas and variety shows are popular on television.

And even if you played the songs on the music charts in order, more than 90 percent of them would be songs from that country.

That was why the people of Korea, China, and Japan tended to take considerable pride in their own cultures.

That didn't mean they mindlessly excluded the cultures of other countries, but when it came to music, they generally preferred songs in their own language.

So when it was revealed that a genius singer who had been popular in their own country was actually a singer from a neighboring country, it was only natural for the revelation to eclipse every other issue and dominate the headlines.

Then, as if following an age-old tradition, the fighting began.

The issue was this.

It was understandable that Mikansei had hidden her identity VS this was an act of deceiving the Japanese...