Consider it this way: what would you say if a blond homecoming queen fell in
love with a short Japanese businessman? He treats her cruelly, then goes home for
three years, during which time she prays to his picture and turns down marriage
from a young Kennedy. Then, when she learns he has remarried, she kills herself.
Now I believe you should consider this girl to be a deranged idiot, correct? But
because it’s an Oriental who kills herself for a Westerner–ah!–you find it
beautiful.