Bobby Ologun profits by betting against Japanese tolerance for international marriages
Last night on NTV, Nigerian-born Japanese talento Bobby Ologun took his children onto a quiz show in which they had to guess how Japanese viewers voting by phone would answer certain questions. Here’s a clip that shows how Bobby correctly guessed the outcome of two particular questions (one asking viewers how they would feel if born into his family, another asking their views on marriage with non-Japanese):
In both cases, Bobby bet that the audience would vote negatively and he was correct. Only 39% of viewers responded by saying they would be happy to be born into the Ologun family and 63% expressed insecurity/fear over the idea of marrying a foreigner. The results may have been skewed by the fact that Bobby was using the 2 minute voting period to tell stories that made his family life sound strange or bad. It was a pretty sad display of pandering for money and it worked: Bobby won a whopping 300,000 yen (about 3,000 USD).
Other questions not shown in this clip revealed that 90% of viewers thought Bobby intentionally made mistakes while speaking Japanese and a plurality (35%) of viewers liked Bobby more than Dave Spector, Konishiki, or Girolamo Panzetta.
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