Accused of being "foreign" when playing online?

[DantehMan]

Ha,, I have to admit back in my Halo 2 days,,, back when I really even bothered with it i was inundated every time i went into Matchmaking with 'Generic' Americans going "would you like a cup of tea?" to which was followed with the 'Generic reply' "I'm from sheffield mate say it again in the Queens English which you all seem to think we speak because you watch TV and believe everything you see and hear on them to be the truth, and ill stop playing nice and give your mother something to be upset about when she's not **** ******* you with her own ****,,,,,,, needless to say they were stunned!

there have been a few other 'incidents' and needless to say the 'Average' American can't keep up with the Class, Wit and Long Words that the English 20 something can come up with in a heart beat and they are left speechless!


-DTM

 

[Ciarog]

Englishman: "Multiplicity."
Average American HALO player's brain: *SPLURT*

 

[Count_de_Monet]

The "Average American" is represented by the hordes of teenagers, drunk college students and other flavors of miscreant which frequent Halo? Yeesh, you should be glad I don't judge the UK by the multitude of retarded English twelve year old's I've encountered on CS and CS:S over the years...

 

[Aura967]

im polish and sometimes accused of being british but, one day in COD4 i told a guy i was from poland and he said "what part of the UK is that"? that made my day

 

[Sib]

hehe this reminds me of a time when people were taking the piss out of us for being british, so we decided to put on the heaviest british accents we could and every time we were near enough to be heard (this is in halo3 so proximity voice) we started spouting british-isms (???) like "can i have some tea?" "CRUMPETS!!" and the like(note we teabagged them while saying it because they pissed us off). it was hilarious, but reading it i suppose you would miss some of the fun.

also people dont know where wales is half the time

 

[Anarchemitis]

Maybe us Escapist Community people should actually escape and make a superior utopian super-community on the moon. Then when the time is right we give the world a gaming equivalent of a tasp (see Larry Niven's Ringworld, or for you lazy people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasp ) and finally lazy and ignorant gamers will shut up.

 

[Caninus]

Being British can be a pain in the arse sometimes. As soon as one of the stupid Americans that have been mentioned in several of the posts catch on to the fact they do one of too things. 1)Ask if i am from england in a confused tone of voice, or 2) start talking in an English accent, circa 1914. to the first i reply, no I'm from the land of the fairies or the moon. To the second i tend to tell them that we once owned a 1/3 of the world, created the industrial age and that everyone of them is an immigrant weather they like it or not and that they killed the majority of the natives. if you are an American with an IQ higher than that of a potato (and there are alot of you) then i apologize for anything that may offend you in this fairly large post.

 

[windfish]

...needless to say the 'Average' American can't keep up with the Class, Wit and Long Words that the English 20 something can come up with in a heart beat and they are left speechless!
-DTM

Ethnocentric much?

 

[[HD]Rob Inglis]

Maybe us Escapist Community people should actually escape and make a superior utopian super-community on the moon. Then when the time is right we give the world a gaming equivalent of a tasp (see Larry Niven's Ringworld, or for you lazy people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasp ) and finally lazy and ignorant gamers will shut up.

Well need Al Gore to be pres. (see Futurama).

 

[Kontar]

I agree with Windfish's rather large post up above, I too am a little tired of having to explain to foreigners that 1)a lot of us didn't vote for Bush either time, and it baffles us that he won, twice. 2)not all of us are fat, racist, gun toting morons that run around shouting yeehaw. And 3)many of us ignore all the stereotypes of other countries, knowing that they're just that, stereotypes. And would prefer it if people realized that the morons you're dealing with in these online games does not in any way, represent everyone in America.

Quite a few of my best friends are foreigners, and I've been to Europe 3 times now. And I must say it seems just as many, if not more Europeans have more pre-concieved notions of what Americans are than what Americans have of Europeans.

Although I have always wanted to run down a street in London and yell, TALL-YHO!

 

[Ciarog]

The "Average American" is represented by the hordes of teenagers, drunk college students and other flavors of miscreant which frequent Halo?

Yes.

On the bright side, our retarded little tassels of latchkey kids won't be enacting Sharia law in another 20 years.

 

[Shadow Link]

When I played halo 2 and 3 this topic got quite interesting. Several dozen times I have been called British and when I have told the person that I am in fact Australian, they phrase me as the scum of Britain (Referring to the fact that most of our ancestors were criminals), and the "Do you ride a Kangaroo to school" Phrase also pops up a lot, however that usually temps me to say "Do you ride a dear to Ignorantville". Now I know that only a small proportion of America is just full of ignorant bastards, but that population is still more then any of the other ignorant bastards in the rest of the world. By this I mean I have versed Chinese, British, German people and French, etc.. and they have all said Good game and so forth at the end whilst just about every American I have versed has just said "You suck, I hate you ****ing British bastard", now I am quite unsure why I deserve to be called all that, but why is it that only America does it? I am serious.... I am not Targeting America, but mearly pointing out the fact that America targets the rest of the world.

There is a lot more I can add on here, such as playing Team Fortress Classic on a laggy server (350ms+), I was playing a game of snipers vs. an American with less then 30ms lag, now it was pretty equal, but then my lag started progressively getting worse, to 400ms+ and then I was told that I sucked, whilst I tried to point out the lag difference I was called "A poor foreign bastard who can't afford to live in America", this was after I said I was not American and couldn't find another server to join.

Another example of how Ignorant some of you are, In a server of Team Fortress Classic (Different server, different time), There was a discussion about where everyone was from, when I said I was from Australia all of a sudden I was marked as an enemy for being "Foreign", everyone was trash talking me calling me some really bad stuff ranging from "Non-Human" (Since according to them only humans exist in America), too "How often to I have sexual intercourse with Kangaroo's", I finally cracked it at the end and called them all a bunch of Ignorant Bastards but then got booted and banned permanently from that server.

 

[Chalee]

I get accused of being a girl sometimes, but never of a foreign nature.

I love the fact that you are ACCUSED of being a girl! You shall not commit femaleness!

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

EDIT: I welcome the replies of those who took the time to read all that. Let me know civilly if you disagree, or if you don't like my tone, or would like me to stop typing so much. But save it if it's just a "well, this one time somebody said..." because that means you didn't read what I had to say.

Dear United States of America,

We do not have a problem with you. Most of us know some Americans that are really good people. But...

DEAR GOD you have some mind shatteringly obnoxious people over there. I mean, I know that we can't really talk as the one thing we British are known world wide for is our snootiness; but when it's constantly reinforced on us by your businesses, media and everything else that we're some sort of poor cousin to TEH MIGHTI AMRICA! then we hold our once-proud British heads in our hands and cry.

Most of us were born with the idea that we English had something to offer on the world stage, given that we have the command of the airline global language, one of the best education systems in the world, the most generous charities in the world, we're winners of a number of wars and we helped to seed many Nations. (admittedly a lot by force)

But no, all we are useful for on the world stage is being seen as America's abused lapdog. Imagine our horror when the blood, sweat and tears of millenia is replaced by a decade of American culture that doesn't just pervert out culture but runs in screaming and pissing on everything it sees.

Now, hands held high, we have done this in the past. We've been responsible for some of the most barbaric acts in recent times and in times in the past, but in general, we've tried to make amends for them. We gave back Hong Kong, thanked the Americans for their needed help in the Second World War and ran suicide missions for you in the Gulf.

Our thanks for this? Massive immigration swallowing our resources, rampant squabbling from Europe and America over which part of the corpse to desecrate first and a stream of bile that doesn't even care about the truth anymore. To quote Dennis Leary :
"And there ain't a Goddamn thing anybody can do about it
You know why?
'Cause we got the bombs, that's why!
Two words: Nuclear F**kin' Weapons
Okay!?"

That's what our 'special relationship' has been reduced to, we're the Man's *****. And our youth is going crazy because of it.

That's where we stand on the World Stage now, so you'll perhaps forgive us a little for our moaning.

We really don't mean it, but when everything that comes out of America reinforces the stereotype, sometimes we don't engage our brains before responding.

My apologies for the idiots that we're trying hard to deal with.

Yours sincerely,

England.

P.S. By the way Australia, it's not you either, it's just the forcefeeding of Neighbours now that the Charlene, Jane and Bronwyn have left, we miss them.

 

[BigText]

I'm hoping I haven't pissed off any of the people here. Whenever I'm on a server and someone speaks something other than English or speaks with a heavy accent, I always say "Speak English you damn Canadians!" just for the heck of it.

Really though, if you want to find a bunch of people who are completely ignorant about everything outside their own country, go to Japan. I've been living here for almost 6 months, and it's baffling. From what I've seen, people here seem to think that the only places that really exist are America and Japan. If you're foreign but you aren't from America (in Japan, they call the US America, so excuse me on that bit), like say my friends from Finland or a girl I know from Mexico, people think this is absolutely AMAZING. If you get asked where you're from, and you don't say that you're from America, they will all but SCREAM with surprise.

One of my friends from Finland was telling a story about how people tried to teach her what a cell phone WAS, before she pointed out that the cell phone they were explaining was from a company from Finland.

As for the Mexican girl, well, she soon learned that a lot of Japanese people hadn't even HEARD of Mexico. One lady asked her if it was that one tiny place below America. It was ridiculous. The girl was also asked how she could speak English if she wasn't from America or England.

So, while I haven't been insulted like I know a lot of Americans do to people, please realize that America isn't the most ignorant, although a lot of people flaunt their ignorance in America more than other countries.

As for the person who posted "multiplicity", I actually had to look it up. While I recognized the word base, I didn't know what that conjugation led to. Sheesh, and I thought I was pedantic.

 

[Mr Wednesday]

Plus, British folk - be happy. Thanks to the movie Mary Poppins and the role of Mr. Banks, all Americans think that all Brits have the sort of accent you wish you had.

Funnily enough, there's a Britain outside of London, much of it with a very distinct culture and dialect that strectches back for centuries.

The idea that we "want" to be associated with it is vaguely insulting.

Try that line on a Yorkshireman, or a Wiganner, and you're likely to get floored very quickly.

 

[Talisker]

I have been to the US and the people I met were friendly, had a good sense of humour and were fairly intelligent. So I know this dosen't apply to all of you.

Being from Scotland I have been subjected to much online abuse from Americans. And yes it is only ever Americans that dish out the abuse. Whenever I have played online with other nationalities there is a friendly rivalry. For example Scots and English have a go at each other, the Brits(in general) and the Aussies have a go at each other. But it's always in good fun. With Americans it always descends into abuse, Brits and Aussies don't seem to mind a good natured laugh at thier national stereotypes I suspect because they know they are just having a laugh. I once online heard an Englishman accuse an Aussie of being crap at rugby said Aussie replied by callin the English a bunch of football/soccer hooligans and a good laugh was had by all involved. If people try this thing with the Americans they are told immidiately to f**k off to Afghanistan/Iraq/Russia etc.

As for being accused of being foriegn. Like scubamike I too have been accused of being from Iran, maybe it was the same idiot on both occaisions. I have also been asked if we speak English in Scotland. To which I reaplied,
"No I'm speaking Gaelic, you must jsut be able to understand me."
This confused the poor bugger no end and he didn't say anything for the rest of the game.

However, the absolute best thing I have ever heard online regarding abuse of Brits by Americans was on COD4. Someone from the US, in thier early to mid teens by the sound of it, was dishing out family sized portions of abuse towards Britain and most of Europe at the same time for not being able to fight wars, this is the words spoken towards the end. And I can assure you it is the truth.

American:" Yeah, Brits are shit at fighting wars we didn't need your help in Iraq"
Brit:"Britain's been fighting wars for about 1000 years longer than America's been around"
American:"That dosen't matter 'cos we kicked your asses in World War 1!"
This was the first time i have ever seen someone laughed out of a game.

Please someone from the US restore my faith in you guys. Tell me your education system is not that bad.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

and don't do that, Dear. America bullshit. It makes you look like you're looking down your nose at the rest of us.

You did read the bit "I know that we can't really talk as the one thing we British are known world wide for is our snootiness"? and it was in reply to Dear Rest of the World...

Maybe some of you don't get the gist of what I'm saying, so, I'll simplify.[snip]you're looking down your nose at the rest of us.[snip]crying like a little girl[snip] I just have to say, and you'll have to forgive me for the truth:[snip]

Can you see us from that far above your nose? Preacher, get your medic back.

Shut up! Shut up you American. You always talk, you Americans, you talk and you talk and say 'Let me tell you something' and 'I just wanna say this', Well you're dead now, so shut up.