ASTER:
What is the basis for adding Asian countries? Asian culture or being in the Asian continent. (geographical) ?
answer : Asian Continent (geographical)
It's not only the geo-location...do you realize Russia is next to Japan? and Alaska (America) next to Russia?
It's the decision Turkey made not to place themselves among Asian nations. They could have joined Asia long long time ago if they wanted to but they didn't.
This is actually due to their administration city that is located in Istanbul which was a Europe city and obviously is more closer to Europe. Most lands of Turkey is in Asia continent "geographically" but that is not how it work.
Israel is another country that's geographically in Asia continent but they have to pull out due to political reason. Therefore for those who don't realize it yet, Israel is yet another country besides Turkey people always confused as Asian.
ASTER:
To be honest, it is not about culture at all, whatever artists and industries do automatically becomes culture. Example-Clothing/hair Fashion
I was not talking about fashion...it's the mentality portrayed and wannabe-ness if that makes any sense.
ASTER:
But as far as I know it is a Muslim country and I saw a little bit of their culture in movies/dramas.
In that case it's good if you can see even a little of their culture in their dramas. That was what I'm talking about.
ASTER:
It is difficult for me to explain and understand why you are not happy.
No you got me wrong! I only wasn't happy when people prioritize Turkey over several other deserved Asian countries. As i said before Turkey could be added only after ALL Asian Countries have been added to this site, provided that Admin is willing to do so.
ASTER:
Including a country does not mean that if there are 100 contents from that country then I have to see 100 out of 100 contents.
I guess I didn't phrase my sentence well in the previous post. I didn't ask you to watch all shows of any country, so I'm sorry if it was confusing you. Look at example below:
DATABASE Model1: All countries included but not complete. Some countries even have as little as 10 titles.
DATABASE Model2: Only 3 countries involved but complete. Almost all titles from the 3 countries are available.
The one you see on IMDB or streaming service is the exact of Model1. They are more DIVERSE but entries for each country are far from complete. Many people want MDL to be like this I believe. Having more countries as long as they can fulfill their watching list. They don't care if the database is complete or not.
However MDL is striving to become Model2. Admin wants to complete the ITEM of the existing countries first before adding a new one. So you will have limited countries but at the same time they assure you will have almost every titles/entries from these countries.
Source: I read Admin wrote about this somewhere sometime ago (probably on MDL feed)