 This clip of Japan's Princess Mako giving up her royal status in order to marry a commoner is going viral again And a lot of people are questioning whether this whole Traditional Japanese culture thing might be holding the country back from success now. Yeah, we got to talk about it This went viral again. This clip is from 2021, but let's play it There he is I'm gonna go ahead and put anything regarding a royal family from a traditional culture in the silly category But the larger takeaways about like is all this being steeped in tradition asset or a liability I would say that's more of a serious discussion. All right, everybody. We're gonna get into the main discussion at hand Please hit that like button right now share this video if you like our commentary So I guess David the main question that a lot of people are saying or I guess where the discussion moved to Right was after seeing this viral clip a lot of people were like man These old traditions in Japan are holding Japan back from success now It was a very successful country for very a long time. In fact, it's probably the most successful like hyper traditional country in Modern capitalistic world history, right, right? And but now it seems like the economy is stagnant the people are stagnant Obviously, there's like a negative birth rate a lot of things are not moving into the future well for Japan But on a day-to-day basis, it's hard to say that it is still not better than your country Anyway, like we said guys, it's a micro thing Princess Mako has got to give up a royal status moving to New York just shopping at CVS like a commoner But like you said it led to these other discussions like Japan was the future But now it's stuck in the past Japan was living in the year 2000 since 1985 But it just completely froze in that state Anyway guys like we said um and we just got some quick thoughts here And we're gonna talk about the micro of this whole Princess Mako situation all the way to a more macro discussion But um a lot of people Andrew didn't know that Japan still had an emperor and imperial family, right? Yeah, I mean I think that uh, I don't think they have that much political power I'm sure they have some but not like they're not running the country Actually their main job is still to be ahead of the Shinto temple And uh, it is the oldest hereditary royal family in the world going back over a thousand years It is still very steeped in tradition Now some people were comparing how Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left the royal family of the uk Versus how Princess Mako which interestingly enough sounds like Marko Markle and it almost turned into an east versus west debate Is it was a very disrespectful for Prince Harry and them to like make a bunch of money and I guess trash the royal family After the leaving because other people are like, you know the Japanese they actually have respect for their imperial Heritage right when never go against it when Princess Mako married a commoner like a regular guy obviously still from a good family, but uh They uh, they didn't like talk trash about the Japanese royal family They just almost like quietly went into new york and they live out in the city now Right, right, right. Do you think that that is a eastern versus western thing? Or do you think that that that's like, uh, it is a respect thing, right? Yes, I think it is Um, somebody said, uh, you know, it reminds me of how many old cultures in the world still have this structure America obviously being part of the new world, Andrew We don't have this structure a lot of older societies not all of them Haven't left, you know, 200 years ago behind right, right, right And of course, I think Japan being such a successful country It did kind of validate that system like well, we are doing well in this Having the royal family. So we will just continue to do it Right, you're saying that it's not like they really like went through that bad of a time that where they needed to like just Throw the whole society into a revolution. Yeah, what what was what was a time when they really started questioning their system? I think really now is the time maybe right, right But a lot of people are questioning though Even though a lot of japan's youth when sort of pulled they quietly wish Maybe possibly japan was a little bit different. It doesn't seem like there's necessarily a big push for change Even though technically on a statistical level, japan's economy has been stagnant for 20 or 30 years Yeah, I think it's hard to demand change and also protest in japan When it's not I guess maybe it's not clearly super bad because life is still good And you're still comparing it to other places So I don't know. I guess how bad would it have to get for the youth to start like Jumping up and protesting right and like throwing a fit, right? Um, somebody also said on a micro level and it shows how unappealing and suffocating being specifically a woman is in the royal family Versus being a male. Yeah, think about it. So suffy. She wanted to leave. She just left with nothing I think the truth is andro Applying sort of this princess mako discussion to a more macro scale on are the traditions of japan Uh an asset or a liability. The truth is isn't it both? Like people want to visit japan because it's this ultra advanced economy or it was Hyper cutting edge in the year 2000 whether or not it's been frozen since the year 2000 That's probably true But like you don't get all the women in kimonos and all these great things that look like spirited way Hiya Miyazaki and then also get everything to be like updated on some 2024 level either, right? Like you can't just have the best of everything all the time in the world, right? Right, right, right seems to be a balance Um, and or do you think that japan is going to go the way of france? You know how france is no longer wanting to have like cutting edge economies or technologies But france is more like oh no, I would just sell like heritage and wines and cheeses and tourism uh That's a good question. I feel like japanese are not going to ease off the gas pedal like that I think they have the energy to change even though like sony and maybe some of the car brands they have Peaked, I guess right. They're still doing good, but they're not doing great great. Yeah They're not at the top of the game anymore But just because you're not at the top doesn't mean you're doing bad I guess uh andre this led to a discussion about the uk somebody said it feels like half of the uk is stuck In its past past glories without looking into the future That's why they need a leader like rishi sunak who's still very loyal to the british empire But he's an immigrant. So he's looking more forward Because I guess like the heritage population they might be just looking back to the bridgerton days um Yeah The economic miracle in asia. It just came out of different times for everybody You would say that japan had it first right then south korea And now china's going through it and some people think china's swimming right now. It's almost going to vietnam Yeah, yeah, and obviously china being a bigger country too. I think it's harder to see it hit the average person I think the average person's life did get better, but it's still not like the average chinese life is not As good as it could be right right right? Do you think andre the japan's recent focus on sports and all their great sports stars? Almost shows that its economics are on cruise mode because it's almost like they're like We don't really care that sony's phones is not as dominant because we have inue and otani and we beat finland and feeba maybe Um andre j rock and j pop apparently stopped being good in 2008. That's the same time that the leeman brothers crisis hit japan I don't even know and uh, yeah people were just saying listen guys Every country has an arc not everybody's going to be in the hottest stage All the time forever right anybody. Let's get into the comments section andrew Somebody was saying this is only going viral right now in 2021 because there's a whole fukushima water Controversy and tourism but open back up I believe tokyo is like number one or number two in the whole world right now in terms of like People so basically just the seo on japan is like surging right now. Oh Yeah, that's why also. Is that why we're talking about japan a lot? Oh Are we just subject to search engine optimization? um Somebody was saying man. I wish that princess mako and k komoro would hang out with prince harry and meg and marco man They could like build a really cool tv show together About uh, I guess people who have left royal dynasties right right right right um somebody was saying oh Actually, I got this hot tag andrew. I actually think what prince harry and meg and marco is good for the uk You know why because ultimately it'll like stick a knife in the in the monarchy Because people are gonna get so like maybe that's their goal is to like make such a messy Thing of them leaving it brings down the whole system Yeah bringing down the whole system and everybody stepping up to go fix it Sounds tough. Yeah, sounds like a tough one. I heard that the uk royal family is worth five billion andrew What if they just gave them maybe like A billion and then took the other four billion and did something constructive with it. Yeah, they probably should they probably should Um, somebody was saying I hate that the rules are different for females than male royals in japan Um, this sort of turned into an argument about like ancient asian patriarchy and stuff like that because it is I looked into it andrew it's much easier for japanese royal males They have like less restrictions on who they can marry even though it's like still bad to marry a commoner But the females have like a lot of restrictions. Right, right, right Um, somebody was saying the japanese would never go against the crown and someone was saying well It's just like she married still a rich guy But he just wasn't a royal because there's like barely any royals left in japan. So it's not that realistic Right. Yeah, man. I mean maybe she didn't have that many options if she was looking at the other royal men She was like, I don't want to do this. No, I can only pick from six people Um, two of which might be related to you. I don't know, man I don't know. There's a reason for those recess chins in the uk and that's what I heard Somebody said things need to change over there, man. Japan needs to change They need to get with the times and other people were like that is what makes japan great That they don't want to change and of course this turned into a big argument And why do you think so many foreigners love japan? But then they relocate to japan for five 10 15 20 years and then they get mad that it like doesn't change I don't know man. I think that like japan Is gonna rock like japan's very confident in being japan Because they're just like well, we got here doing this. So we will die doing this too Instead of completely changing. We do not want to lose who we are and what makes us Japan, um, I would say this they would probably take like a 90% functioning society Overchasing like a thousand percent fair society that has a risk of breaking down. Yeah, I have the uncertainty They're scared of the uncertainty like you don't know when you make major changes What's gonna happen? Isn't this a great argument for japan to just be like, hey guys, we've always been on our own timeline We've done fine. So we're gonna be on our we're gonna continue to be on our own timeline despite what you guys think Oh all these uh studies and articles coming out about japan falling or japan's economy Oh japan's in trouble. They're probably just like I don't care because we never cared right. Um, is that kind of like the southern saying come hell or high water I'm sticking to my guns, man. This is who we are. There's how we do things Someone said uh, and there was a latina woman who was super shocked that the royals do not hug Because it's they're just actually bowing to each other. Oh as she says goodbye. They're just bowing super disconnected cold Uh, yeah, amen. That is traditional asian culture at its core, but the two sisters hug But yeah, I mean even some asian families. I know that our old school don't even hug like that Um, somebody was just saying man a netflix original series loading. This would be amazing other people would just cush Um questioning the concept of a royal family in this day and age period and a lot of countries have them They're still just rich ceremonial, but in other places like thailand andrew The king still got like and maybe not the most all the influence compared to the house and the prime minister But a decent amount of power. I don't know man. I think if these royal families were still doing good things And like they were actually truly good representatives and didn't have as much controversy I think more people would still buy into it to an extent. You're saying that they've got too much drama and like messy behavior Yeah, they're too like imperfect and so then people are losing faith because they're like Well, what's so good about being a royal you just like anybody else? But then if they were all actually held themselves to a higher standard, I think that would be more convincing Yo, what if they had this like proving grounds where you got to go become a commoner for like Five to ten years and accomplish something great. And then if you do you get a go back into the royal castle You know like a proving grounds Um, somebody said in their marriage. I can imagine she's gonna argue with him like I gave up my royalty for you And then he'll never be able to win any arguments It's kind of a funny thing. Anyway Andrew from silly to serious This was a very silly discussion, but obviously the discussion got serious for all the way to like is tradition an asset or a liability Man, I mean, what do you think like should people just break down all old traditional structures for the hell of it or What what should happen before you break down a structure that you have a plan for a new one, right? Right, right, right. I think that that's the main thing right now Like I heard that a lot of like 80 year old people still run most of the important infrastructures in japan and are like the leads of the systems There's like a L lsd party even 80 year olds running the system kind of sounds like america too Yeah, and they're actually still from the great families of japan And a lot of the men are raised to be like hyper like samurai patriarchal So that's like leading to a disconnect between the average consumer citizen in japan and the leadership They're more like with the old old Tokugawa shogunate days and then the regular people are trying to like get away from it But is the do the people need to like want to get away from it enough if the day-to-day is still really pleasant Do you know what i'm saying does it does do things have to break down on a day-to-day? IRL basis for people to want to have system upheaval because when you have system upheaval and a changing of the guard There's always like pros and cons to it. Right, right, right. Yeah. I guess I I don't know I don't know. I guess for me in my opinion I just want to see like the second world of the third world countries that are entering the second world Or the second world countries entering the first world have a chance like that's what i'm more interested in Like I would never go live in japan and we actually have Relatives in our family that speak japanese that grew that spent many years in japan I'm just not gonna bemoan Like a dot former dominant world superpower slipping a little bit. Yeah, I like that's not what I put my energy I'm like more rooting for the little guys who like never had anything like or maybe haven't been good for like a thousand years You know, are you guys got are you kind of referring to? First world country problems where it's like japan's issues are issues for japan But only issues to that affect dominance not necessarily issues that are going to bring down the entire country into like A dismantled. Yeah, like no like they're still gonna be fine out of floor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah So i'm just saying so everybody can like write all these articles like analyzing it But I feel like the internal local people they accept the pros and the cons whether or not they're hyper aware I do think sometimes the media plays up all the issues, you know Like because you're just like well, it's easy to stand back and then write about all the issues that you see and then extrapolate Oh, well in 20 years. They're not gonna have any this, you know, right, right, right I mean, you know for me. I'm just congratulating lithuania andrew lithuania just beat the team usa and fiba basketball I mean you could sit here and be like well, that's why our americans all the best players They're just worried about their endorsements and they're selling their shoes in china in the summer They don't want to go play an international competition, but i'm just like Listen guys, this is just where we're at as a country in a way. It's almost like uh It is a privilege problem to have right right right anyway guys Let us know what you think of in the comment section below of the micro situation of princess mako You know leaving her royal family to become a commoner in new york I'm sure she still has a really great life and also our japan's traditions an asset Or liability and our royal families globally an asset or liability for their given societies Let us know in the comment section below