American bashing?

[Sunoske]

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. Is it normal for people in other countries to generalize? I'm not trying to be rude, but all I hear is that we are self centered, rude and a lot of the time they blame people leaving DF on Americans...
I know a lot of Americans who go out of their way to help, only queing in DF as a tank and doing runs in progress, making free gear for people who need help, I being one of them... My question is why is it that people are generalizing us based on an encounter with someone who's more than likely 12? We don't choose where we are born.

[Reslin]

Most people that generalize don't truly mean everyone. They're basing their generalizations based on the majority. Most people understand there's good people in every nation but as a whole the bad eggs are more prevalent. Sadly there's a reason they came to this general idea and opinion. The bad eggs can be very.. vocal.

[Cyril_Nex]

You should take the American stance...

If your not American.. we don't care what you have to say

[Vod]

Haters gonna hate.

[Sunoske]

You should take the American stance...

If your not American.. we don't care what you have to say

I care about what everyone has to say o-o I made it my job a long time ago be be nice to everyone, because I know how it feels to be treated like crap x.x It's just sad when I queue, see where everyone's from and someone goes "Oh, your American."

[Riko_113]

I don't know if we're any worse than any other country or not but being American myself, hell ya we're rude and self centered when generalized. Everyone generalizes, it's not country specific or group specific. I just had someone in another thread generalize me while arguing against me generalizing.

Everyone has good and bad in them and depending on anyone's personal experience they'll see either the good or the bad. The rest of the world thinks Americans are rude, but look at them...Most of my friends are asian(I'm white) and as a generalization asians are racist as hell. So don't let it bother you. No one is perfect.

[Avedis1134]

The same reason product reviews are generally biased. People will go out of their way to broadcast their discontent with a product or service, but are much less likely to do so for an "acceptable" or "good" experience. Only when said service or product is exceptional do you generally see positive reviews.

[Battlewrench]

Well, the US is huge compared to some of the other countries that play this game. It's really just a numbers game why I think people generalize citizens of the US as negative. For every one jerk they have we have twenty, for every one nice person they have we have fifteen. Personally I think it's funny how others jump to the conclusions of where people are from and assuming that only the bad comments are citizens of the US. Well funny as in sad funny.

[Zumi]

I seen just as many rude EU players as US players in the DF its not something specific to 1 region.

[Rolvag]

selective memory , usualy people tend to remember bad ones and forgot the good ones becouse you take it as granted that some dont "sucks"