We, the cRPG community, have all at one point had an experience, good or bad, with a vast amount of people from different cultures, and countries and all thanks to a game. We have all had(or still have)more or less a rather generalized opinion about certain countries, which in itself is very interesting as it is usually based on some truth. So the topic is: Have your opinions changed about certain nationalities since you started playing cRPG? I think it will be easier to answer if you are fairly new to the community as oldmy old friends most likely forgot about their original opinion but lately I must say some folks have grown on me whom I previously had a rather stereotypical or negative view about. For example turks! I love their food and the people have an innate sense of humour(badly translated to English however :lol:). They are also usually very polite in Teamspeak as well.
That wasn't always the case however. Most Swedes have a very generalized view on some nationalities, especially the ones in the Middle East. They have a very nonchalant view about other cultures and usually think they are better. This however is pretty common with Swedes as we are usually proud about being Swedes, whether in secret or openly it always shows in what we do or say.
Anyway, I would just like to start a discussion about what observations people on the internet have about other nationalities. :)
Apart from above mentioned topic, what do you think about different groups of people after interacting with them on the internet? Don't be afraid to say something that might be seen as stereotypical because that's what we're here to sort out!
Personally I must say that Germans usually strike me to have this slightly arrogant and superior attitudes. Maybe not so strange considering the word "besserwisser" which directly translated means better-knower. Basically a smartass.
Is it just me :P?
I picked "balkan country you can't remember the name of" because of the thread requesting a Latvian subforum made me look up "rupjmaizes" on wikipedia then I read a ton of "[country name] cuisine articles. Got several weeks of meal plans ahead thanks to that thread that had nothing to do with food :o
LOOOOOL, Im gonna show this to Latvian_Knight. Apparently Latvia is now the Balkans. Nice one, hes gonna rage like mad( i hope). :Dgo and die in hell tiberius!!!! "That other Baltic country I always forget the name of" how the fork you cant rember such simple name ? i voted for it anyway cuz i fuck the system :D
I picked Germany. There is just something about a country that has been bommed and looted to pieces many times in the course of history and still somehow manages to stay ontop of most other countries. If one day Germany is fucked, well than we all screwed.
Personally I must say that Germans usually strike me to have this slightly arrogant and superior attitudes. Maybe not so strange considering the word "besserwisser" which directly translated means better-knower. Basically a smartass.Wat
Wat
So you use them having a word that describes a certain attitude as your explanation for thinking the german people have a certain attitude? That is certainly an interesting approach. We have the same word in The Netherlands, betweter.
USA, because most of the cool stuff comes from USA
USA USA USA
Like religious leadership voted in a more or less democratic process? Like most wars in human history? Like fun stuff as waterboarding? Guantanamo? Hiroshima? Nagasaki? Crashing stock markets?
I have even more examples but I guess I made my point :wink:
No, not at all. It was just a funny coincidence.I just have attention for details and in your case I like to point out these things cause you do exactly the same.
Seriously, Teeth. You must love picking out small details in posts around the forum and just start pretentious arguments about their phrasing. Are you that much of a shut-in?
BTW since Hikikomori means shut-in, Teeth must be Japanese!
Voted Winland :mrgreen: and for sereotypes i can say that swedish stereotype is being gay or my old friendgyish looking hipster.
It's not even a stereotype, only finnish people call us gay. But we are not.. Do you think they ask every person if Sweden if they are gay or not? We got just as many gay people as any other country with the same amount of population.That's exactly what Swedish
That's exactly what Swedishgayguy would say.
Then it makes you gay too since we owned your country for 700 years, and you got Swedish culture and celebrate Swedish holidays. You're more Swedish than finnish the only difference between us is that Finnish people are slavic and Swedes are germanic.too bad i didn't live back then, tho at least my anal virginity is safe now.
Like religious leadership voted in a more or less democratic process? Like most wars in human history? Like fun stuff as waterboarding? Guantanamo? Hiroshima? Nagasaki? Crashing stock markets?
I have even more examples but I guess I made my point :wink:
Also, accusing the USA of the most wars in human history? Haha, what? I think credit can go to the British Empire for that one, shitting up the world for hundreds and hundreds of years. America's only been in the business of fucking with shit nations halfway across the world for the past 50 years, not the past 500.
Then it makes you gay too since we owned your country for 700 years, and you got Swedish culture and celebrate Swedish holidays. You're more Swedish than finnish the only difference between us is that Finnish people are slavic and Swedes are germanic.In Finland we can't buy proper alcohol in food stores: -100 points to Finland
In Finland we can't buy proper alcohol in food stores: -100 points to Finland
In Sweden you can't even buy beer: -1000 point to Sweden
Your ass got so whooped by the Russians that you've turned in to a liberalist absolutist pacifist milk country whose greatest achievement is to make customers build their furniture.
America weren't the best at bombing during WW2, just the most advanced technologically. What Britain did to Dresden without any nuclear weapons was pretty horrific.
In Finland we can't buy proper alcohol in food stores: -100 points to Finland
In Sweden you can't even buy beer: -1000 point to Sweden
Finland wins because it sucks less than Sweden.
Your ass got so whooped by the Russians that you've turned in to a liberalist absolutist pacifist milk country whose greatest achievement is to make customers build their furniture.(click to show/hide)
We can buy beer in food stores but not strong beer. and we didnt get our ass whooped by the Russians. Maybe you should research on some history.
We can buy beer in food stores but not strong beer. and we didnt get our ass whooped by the Russians. Maybe you should research on some history.
eh sweden but only because of Dolph Lundgren (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_Lundgren) :mrgreen:Did you know that Dolph is smarter then Bjord...
A piece of paper does not make you smarter than anyone. Perhaps more educated.
But I guess he is smarter than a lot of people, maybe even me(!!!!!!).
Anyway, added new polls for laughs.
facepalm.jpg
Russia is/was the reason Finland is no longer Swedish... Dumbass.
Now I'm suddenly ashamed of my country.
I'm aware of that but we are still independent and always have been. and Being heavily outnumbered and still defeating Denmark and Poland and winning some battles against the russians.. I would hardly call that getting our asses whooped. And we probably would have won too if Karl XII wouldnt have been assassinated in norway.Didn't want to interfere, but with all due respect to all the finns in here...
Didn't want to interfere, but with all due respect to all the finns in here...
I'll just quote Wiki :
"Finland was a part of Sweden from the 12th to 19th century, and from 1809 to 1917 was an autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian Empire."
"On 29 March 1809, having been taken over by the armies of Alexander I of Russia in the Finnish War, Finland became an autonomous Grand Duchy in the Russian Empire until the end of 1917. In 1811 Alexander I incorporated Russian Vyborg province into the Grand Duchy of Finland. During the Russian era, the Finnish language began to gain recognition. From the 1860s onwards, a strong Finnish nationalist movement known as the Fennoman movement grew. Milestones included the publication of what would become Finland's national epicthe Kalevalain 1835, and the Finnish language's achieving equal legal status with Swedish in 1892."
Also worth mentioning that the finnish military leader (and the future president of Finland) who was largely responsible for the finnish success in the Winter War- Mannerheim , was an ex russian white army officer of german origins. Wiki actually also states that he was born into a noble swedish family, didn't know that , heh.
Also worth mentioning that the finnish military leader (and the future president of Finland) who was largely responsible for the finnish success in the Winter War- Mannerheim , was an ex russian white army officer of german origins. Wiki actually also states that he was born into a noble swedish family, didn't know that , heh.His family lived in Finland for hundreds of years, so that's largely irrelevant. Only a small percentage of any country's people are "pure blooded" and if they are then they've likely got some genetic defects due to incest.
Belgium appears twice!!!!!
injustice!!!!!!!!!