The anxiety of foreign stars has emerged, but the real crisis lies in their foreign children.
Why are these seemingly glamorous star children in the entertainment industry now facing huge challenges? Are the choices they ever made influencing their future?
Why do celebrities choose foreigners?
In recent years, many domestic celebrities have chosen to apply for foreign nationality for themselves and their children, ostensibly, for the purposes of education, life, and convenience abroad.
But in reality, these expatriate statuses allow them to maintain a delicate relationship with the domestic market to a certain extent.
Most of these stars have become famous in China and have made huge financial gains, but nationality has gradually become the focus of their controversy.
On the international stage, cultural differences make it difficult for these foreign stars to truly integrate into the foreign market, and eventually they return to China and rely on the domestic market to survive.
And this caused the audience to question, why did they choose a foreign identity, but still enjoy the resources and honor of the Chinese market?
Some netizens believe that this kind of behavior not only squeezes the development space of local actors, but also destroys the level playing field in the entertainment industry.
The plight of the second generation of foreign stars
Compared with the crisis faced by foreign stars, their foreign children, the second generation of stars, may encounter more serious challenges.
Many celebrities have chosen foreign nationality early for the future of their children, but with the development trend of the entertainment industry, the issue of nationality has gradually become the threshold for the selection of domestic performing arts awards.
In the future, the development space of the second generation of foreign stars in the domestic entertainment industry will be more limited.
Netizens are controversing about this.
Some people believe that a star like Liu Yifei, who immigrated abroad since childhood, has no nationality issue that she can control, and she has long been regarded as a Chinese artist, but this new rule is obviously unfair to her.
Some people also pointed out that the choice of nationality is the decision of the celebrity family itself, and since they enjoy the benefits abroad, they should bear the corresponding consequences.
A comprehensive adjustment of the entertainment industry
In 2023, a number of domestic awards will begin to explicitly list nationality as a restrictive condition, a measure that has sparked heated discussions.
Foreign actors and their children may lose the opportunity to compete for honor and development at home.
In the past, many celebrities thought that their children had foreign citizenship to win at the starting line, but now, this has become their limitation. This change not only hit foreign stars, but also prompted domestic stars to rethink their own nationality issues.
The introduction of these policies shows that the state has further regulated the entertainment industry, and at the same time gives local actors more room for development.
For those celebrity families with expatriates, they may need to consider more options for their children's future development.
With the adjustment of entertainment industry policies, foreign stars and their children are facing unprecedented challenges.
Will the issue of nationality become a decisive factor in the development of the entertainment industry in the future? Can they continue to survive in the domestic market when nationality becomes a restriction? These issues are not only something that celebrity families need to think about, but also topics that the whole society is concerned about.
As asked at the beginning, is expatriate status an advantage or a hidden danger? Perhaps, time will tell.