Joined May 2008
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Southern Aridzona - Hell's doorstep.
Here's some context for the screen shot....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIK9TLAoAs&feature=channel&list=UL
Here's some context for the screen shot....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIK9TLAoAs&feature=channel&list=UL
I don't want to get too stereotypical, especially since I don't know Nakamoto personally, but this is how the comments strike me.
Japanese tend not to be in-your-face competitors, but they perceive that Western sportsmen are generally in-your-face competitors. Nakamoto and Honda understand that this is the expectation, and Honda have apparently decided that honorable competition has cost them a great deal since Rossi's departure. Therefore, Nakamoto's remarks are not the result of impulse, imo, but the result of a calculated PR effort or executive leadership to help give HRC a more "competitive" brand. Since Nakamoto's actions/words are a calculated Eastern response to, not organic/spontaneous Western competitiveness, they do not make any sense (timing is about 8 years late
, and more personal than any Honda remarks), though everyone understands the reason Nakamoto would say such things about Rossi.
Japanese tend not to be in-your-face competitors, but they perceive that Western sportsmen are generally in-your-face competitors. Nakamoto and Honda understand that this is the expectation, and Honda have apparently decided that honorable competition has cost them a great deal since Rossi's departure. Therefore, Nakamoto's remarks are not the result of impulse, imo, but the result of a calculated PR effort or executive leadership to help give HRC a more "competitive" brand. Since Nakamoto's actions/words are a calculated Eastern response to, not organic/spontaneous Western competitiveness, they do not make any sense (timing is about 8 years late
I don't want to get too stereotypical, especially since I don't know Nakamoto personally, but this is how the comments strike me.
Japanese tend not to be in-your-face competitors, but they perceive that Western sportsmen are generally in-your-face competitors. Nakamoto and Honda understand that this is the expectation, and Honda have apparently decided that honorable competition has cost them a great deal since Rossi's departure. Therefore, Nakamoto's remarks are not the result of impulse, imo, but the result of a calculated PR effort or executive leadership to help give HRC a more "competitive" brand. Since Nakamoto's actions/words are a calculated Eastern response to, not organic/spontaneous Western competitiveness, they do not make any sense (timing is about 8 years late, and more personal than any Honda remarks), though everyone understands the reason Nakamoto would say such things about Rossi.
I don't want to get too stereotypical, especially since I don't know Nakamoto personally, but this is how the comments strike me.
Japanese tend not to be in-your-face competitors, but they perceive that Western sportsmen are generally in-your-face competitors. Nakamoto and Honda understand that this is the expectation, and Honda have apparently decided that honorable competition has cost them a great deal since Rossi's departure. Therefore, Nakamoto's remarks are not the result of impulse, imo, but the result of a calculated PR effort or executive leadership to help give HRC a more "competitive" brand. Since Nakamoto's actions/words are a calculated Eastern response to, not organic/spontaneous Western competitiveness, they do not make any sense (timing is about 8 years late, and more personal than any Honda remarks), though everyone understands the reason Nakamoto would say such things about Rossi.
I think you are correct, as is often the case. Honda corporate guys don't do unguarded off-the-cuff remarks.
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I don't want to get too stereotypical, especially since I don't know Nakamoto personally, but this is how the comments strike me.
Japanese tend not to be in-your-face competitors, but they perceive that Western sportsmen are generally in-your-face competitors. Nakamoto and Honda understand that this is the expectation, and Honda have apparently decided that honorable competition has cost them a great deal since Rossi's departure. Therefore, Nakamoto's remarks are not the result of impulse, imo, but the result of a calculated PR effort or executive leadership to help give HRC a more "competitive" brand. Since Nakamoto's actions/words are a calculated Eastern response to, not organic/spontaneous Western competitiveness, they do not make any sense (timing is about 8 years late, and more personal than any Honda remarks), though everyone understands the reason Nakamoto would say such things about Rossi.
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I don't want to get too stereotypical, especially since I don't know Nakamoto personally, but this is how the comments strike me.
Japanese tend not to be in-your-face competitors, but they perceive that Western sportsmen are generally in-your-face competitors. Nakamoto and Honda understand that this is the expectation, and Honda have apparently decided that honorable competition has cost them a great deal since Rossi's departure. Therefore, Nakamoto's remarks are not the result of impulse, imo, but the result of a calculated PR effort or executive leadership to help give HRC a more "competitive" brand. Since Nakamoto's actions/words are a calculated Eastern response to, not organic/spontaneous Western competitiveness, they do not make any sense (timing is about 8 years late, and more personal than any Honda remarks), though everyone understands the reason Nakamoto would say such things about Rossi.
So you are trying to say Japanese people are timid in their approach and afraid of confrontations? Hmmmm.... Mylexicon, if your 'people' have enough guts and pride in their culture, enough to do seppuku and kamikaze, then your words might hold weight. But I don't seen any westerners do it like the Japanese. So don't even try to look down on asian as if they are weaklings. Asian culture holds pride in themselves as being quiet, respectful and to be soft spoken and humble but holding a big stick. Westerners are more loudmouths and talk alot.
Don't want to get into this stuff but....... you are wrong in your 'cowboy' way of thinking.
I think it is nothing more than a reaction to the questions asked - "Valentino was 10th in Qatar and 9th here. What do you think about that?", "Is there no chance for him to join Honda or Yamaha again next year?". I don't think that Nakamoto went out of his way to hunt down a journalist to get in the news.
Japanese corps have long memories. Rossi shat on HRC when he left - they are just giving their side of the story, while turning the knife a little
Japanese corps have long memories. Rossi shat on HRC when he left - they are just giving their side of the story, while turning the knife a little
If Rossi is ever going back to Jap bike is either to Yamaha or Suzuki, not to Honda in a million years..
If Nakamoto gets in a Mitsubishi Zero, and crashes into Rossi, I will retract my statement.
I think the HRC boss is content, for now and hopefully forever, to trade barbs with his loudmouth Western competitors.
