This reminds me some big discussions between the art director and a designer when I was working in an agency specialised in luxury hotels and restaurants long time ago. We needed to design the identity for a Chinese restaurant inside Grand Hyatt hotel in Japan, the art director (US guy) insisted to use very traditional Chinese elements and the designer, a Chinese young woman, wanted more modern and clean elements: Chinese but a bit westernised, arguing that Chinese might not particularly want to see very old style Chinese stuff when they dined out.
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