American bashing?

[LloydShade]

It's often easier to bash North American people because it's dominated by only 3 countries (Canada, United-States and Mexico), the rest being what I used to callCentral America (due to school and cultural differences). Considering US and Canada are mostly English-speaking people (at least as far as official language goes), it's very easy to put everyone in the same bag. Try that with Europe where you can travel across a few countries within the same day and official languages may vary greatly from a country to the next (Latin-based to Greek-based for instance).

More so, but this is only a personal guess, I'd say the amount of youngsters/job-less players is higher for North Americans, because computer hardware and Internet is easily and cheaply available. Not that these players are to blame, or that maturity can be calculated by age for that matter, but it does create a rather unique player pool with a lot of extremes. I'd go as far to say that North American player pool is one of the largest that is culturally similar enough. Therefore, you get more good people, but also more bad ones.

[Artamie]

My question is why is it that people are generalizing us based on an encounter with someone who's more than likely 12?

Because those 12 year olds will be representative of us in a couple of years and perhaps even comprise of the new majority and sadly not all of them will simply grow out of it. I hate to admit it but why does a generalization exist if it's not at least partially true in some way? Rather than pretend the flaws listed in the generalizations don't exist we should be proactively seeking to quash them.

as a generalization asians are racist as hell.

Those damn Roegadyn... whoops...

(jk)

[Sunoske]

Because those 12 year olds will be representative of us in a couple of years and perhaps even comprise of the new majority and sadly not all of them will simply grow out of it. I hate to admit it but why does a generalization exist if it's not at least partially true in some way? Rather than pretend the flaws listed in the generalizations don't exist we should be proactively seeking to quash them.

I agree with you, that's why I do my best to help and be a nice player / community member! ^.^ Like I earlier said, we don't choose where we war born, I feel if more people just tried to be nice, the game experience would be better for everyone.

[Kayo]

So I've been noticing lately, that a lot of people are just bashing and generalizing Americans because they only run into the bad ones.

Yeah well, most stereotypes come from somewhere, and you cant expect others to start evaluating everyone individually. Even you do it im sure. You wouldnt go into a bad neighborhood thinking youre safe as usual, yet there are plenty of good people in them that wouldnt hurt a fly. Same goes anywhere else, including this game.

We have a very backwards self-centered, "Me" culture in this country, and our sense of entitlement is off the charts. Others, Japan in particular, are quite the opposite. Generally speaking, of course

TL;DR: Youre much less likely to find a ragequitting, go go go skip now, ninja looting, "you suck you worthless noob", <insult personal/mother insults here> in JP DF pool than you would here.

Not sure about EU, I assume theyre somewhere in between.

[Marley]

People from every country probably generalize. I haven't met them all or visited every country so that's just a guess. Just assume they are no different than the mix of people in your own country who may or may not spend time generalizing about those to the north of them or south of them or those down the road etc.

I have never heard anyone bashing people from the USA on my server nor in DF. In fact I've not heard anyone apart from that one person saying he was from the states mention the USA at all. We talk about how annoying gil sellers are, or people request raises or ask/answer questions or advertise guilds. Normal stuff not bashing.

"Oh your American" is an observation not bashing. Maybe you are over thinking this? You seem like a nice enough person so don't let it worry you over much.

[Kalamari]

It's the same kind of abuse you'll get on the internet no matter who you are or where you're from, to bash your country is just one excuse for the bottom feeding trolls. It's the kind of bitter person who's got something to complain about everyone and everything, and if you start arguing with them they will suck you into a sh*t-flinging contest in which everyone looses.. we've all been there and had run ins with these kinds of people, healthiest way out is not responding and not taking it personally.

[Wiggles]

Good and bad people all over the world, simply living in a certain location does not make you prone to being nice or not.

[Tupsi]

Good and bad people all over the world, simply living in a certain location does not make you prone to being nice or not.

I get what you were saying but you're only half right. In America you're a lot more "free" which often comes with certain people taking advantage of that and forgetting that other parts of the world people are raised differently and have a different way of going about stuff. Some countries you can be killed if you steal even a loaf of bread which will have you much more likely to avoid acting a certain way.

[Mairuzu]

I get what you were saying but you're only half right. In America you're a lot more "free" which often comes with certain people taking advantage of that and forgetting that other parts of the world people are raised differently and have a different way of going about stuff. Some countries you can be killed if you steal even a loaf of bread which will have you much more likely to avoid acting a certain way.

Like what.... North Korea?

[Slatervonjager]

Every other country is just as rude and self centered as Americans, often times more so.

I haven't seen anyone from another country act negatively towards me for being American since I pissed off some Japanese people a few years ago in dark souls(Hey, they invaded me, and lost. Not my fault they can't stand it when an American is better then they are).