arbok
Player Valuation: £15m
I'm an Australian, but been living in Malaysia for the past 7 years. I'm also Chinese as well.
This is just my opinion, but when I say the average person looks up to people with wealth, that's just what I see. Look at the way people treat celebrities, like royalty pretty much. There's no resentment, only admiring them for their hard work. Sure some of them worked hard, but there's no resentment of the extreme capitalist system that got them there in the first place. The fact they get rock bottom wages from their employers but yet look up to their employers at the same time. It's the dream that they can also be like that one day.
Japan/Singapore/S.Korea are all wealthy nations, with a reasonable standard of living vs countries like China, Malaysia, India, Indonesia and all the other South East Asian countries, and most of that is because of extreme capitalism where the very few have wealth vs the rest.
Anyway back to football, many middle income households in Malaysia have pay TV/cable TV surprisingly enough, I'd say more so than Australia has Pay TV though now most people have Netflix or something like it. Australia promotes Australian sport, and the prem is on too late (12am-6am) for people to care. But most of Malaysia's football watching revolves around the top 6 in the prem. It takes precedence over national sport. The papers always big up those teams, its a vicious cycle though, there's not enough success in those other teams to care.
