Ok, under this very low key title I usually put in cultural differences between me and Mrs. Sunshine-Salaryman, but I thought it could be applied to this post as well. I’m not a huge fan of online gaming since most of it seem to require time that I do not have readily available so nowadays it is mostly limited to some shorter bursts in first person shooting games.When I log on to a US game server and play with United Stadians the most heard things are usually: Unprovoked racial slurs, accusations of people/team sucking and random cursing.
If I log on to a Japanese server populated with Japanese, the most heard things are: “Hi Everyone”, “Thanks!” and “Nice game”… (in Japanese obviously)
I find it amazing that the Japanese politeness remains even in the dark murky world on anonymous online murdergames…
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I have also found this (although I'm not quite as nerdy as to play online games) on yahoo answers. You log on to a western yahoo answers and it's all "I already knew that dip shit" or "can my girlfriend pregnent if she touch my peenise??" but the Japanese one is so polite and informative with no sarcasm to be found! Of course this may be due to the lack of sarcasm in the Japanese language in general, but still!
Yep, very true. Seems like the wonderful world of anonymous online hating hasn't really gotten a hold in Japan yet... Feels... odd...
Ah, but all that politeness goes out the window on ２チャン。
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