Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "The dark secrets of sumo wrestling | Unreported World" video.

That's how most professional athletes are produced, frankly.
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Iranian? She has a British accent and clearly a British perspective. We don't care where her family is from.
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@abby-a It's just something my family pieced together where we noted every athlete we ever knew had parents that also liked sports a lot. And we also saw in our own family that priorities were different. Namely my brother once got offered a modest soccar scholarship but saw the amount of time that demanded would kill his history studies, so he chose school over sports and is now a teacher. Guess which one our parents value?
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10:15 To be fair, that number includes muscle weight as well as fat. But the kid is visibly very fat.
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It's just an extreme example of sporting culture. Everyone wants to be the star, everyone wants to be the most powerful, everyone wants to please their parents. Except in this case they're literally killing themselves.
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@DrTomoe-em7rs I assume you mean Europeans who speak fluent English. They mostly learn British English. Most others learn American English.
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Vhut? There's plenty of less extreme examples in Britain and America. You will find most pro athletes have parents that actively encouraged them to put sports before school.
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@guff9567 yours too? Look at the family they tailed, I see a father living vicariously through his son and hoping he lives a dream he never got to. And I see a son whose happiness comes from pleasing his father. There's a big difference between vice and malice.
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@guff9567 Are you? I've seen young men go through worse things just to please people who cared nothing for them. What you see here is just sporting culture driven to ludicrous extremes. Everyone wants to be the star. Everyone wants to please their familes. Everyone wants to be the most powerful.
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@guff9567 the video says otherwise. In fact, you see people freely discuss things you would thought were grave secrets. Come on, this is the culture that puts mayonnaise on ice cream, don't be surprised when they have wildly different ideas of sportsmanship.
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You're missing the key point where they really do love each other and even if they do get paid it won't cover the cost of getting the job. The kid is so eager to please his parents and be the star that he jumps into it eagerly and willingly. This is how most pro athletes are produced, but this is a very extreme case, and many things in Japan are taken to absurd extremes.
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