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Helps Conor McGregor. He is the only current global star from a not so relevant country, so many of the people of that country will rally around him.
In the USA, you have to do a lot more to gain sustainable pop culture visibility, because you are competing with movie stars, quarterbacks, country singers, pop singers, reality stars, basketball players, baseball players, nascar drivers, puritan religious ideologies, 50 states with different cultures, racial/ethnic diversity and etc
You really have to be exceptional to overcome all this.
Guys like Conor and GSP come from countries that are not as relevant on the world map, so it is a little easier for them to get that "whole country behind them" push.
Also, looking like the average citizen of a not so relevant country doesn't hurt. If Conor was black Irish or if GSP was black Canadian, let us be honest, they would lose some of their appeal.
In the USA, you have to do a lot more to gain sustainable pop culture visibility, because you are competing with movie stars, quarterbacks, country singers, pop singers, reality stars, basketball players, baseball players, nascar drivers, puritan religious ideologies, 50 states with different cultures, racial/ethnic diversity and etc
You really have to be exceptional to overcome all this.
Guys like Conor and GSP come from countries that are not as relevant on the world map, so it is a little easier for them to get that "whole country behind them" push.
Also, looking like the average citizen of a not so relevant country doesn't hurt. If Conor was black Irish or if GSP was black Canadian, let us be honest, they would lose some of their appeal.