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Utada Hikaru’s son says he doesn’t like being called “handsome,” J-pop star has wise advice
投稿日 2021年9月1日 22:00:17 (ニュース)
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Sometimes the simplest reaction can feel like the hardest.
Despite having a huge number of social media followers, Utada Hikaru doesn’t post all that frequently on Twitter. Utada did have something to say recently, though, sharing a conversation with the J-pop megastar’s five-year-old son.
息子が急に「Handsome(ハンサム)って言われるのすきじゃないよ」って言うから「恥ずかしいの?そういう時はね、ありがとう、って言えばいいんだよ」って返したら「なんだ〜!なんでもっと早く教えてくれなかったの!」って怒られたので、褒められるのが苦手っていう人みんなに教えたい。
— 宇多田ヒカル (@utadahikaru) August 31, 2021
“My son suddenly said to me ‘I don’t like being called ‘handsome,’’ so I told him ‘Does it make you feel embarrassed? If someone says that to you, all you have to do is say thank you.’
‘What? Why didn’t anyone tell me that earlier?’ he angrily responded, so now I want to tell everyone who doesn’t enjoy being complimented.”
Saying thank you when someone pays you a compliment might sound like something so obvious it shouldn’t require any explanation. In Japanese culture, though, classical manners dictate that when praise is given, the recipient should always deflect, if not outright deny, it.
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With Utada’s son being raised in the U.K. by a parent with an internationalized lifestyle, he’s not bound by quite the same conventions as someone growing up in Japan, and even in Japan not everyone in modern times agrees that it’s bad form to accept a compliment.
Still, feeling flustered by praise because you feel like it’d be impolite to just accept the positive observation about you as a fact isn’t something that’s exclusive to people living in Japan, and it’s nice to see Utada teaching her son that he’s not under any obligation to try to change someone’s favorable impression of him. Hopefully it’ll come in handy the next time someone says he’s handsome, or that he’s done a great job filming a music video.
Source: Twitter/@utadahikaru via Hachima Kiko
Top image: YouTube/Hikaru Utada
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