Accused of being "foreign" when playing online?

[EittilDratsab]

I was once accused of being British when I actually lived in California.

BTW, speaking in a heavy mandarin accent is a surefire way to piss off people.

 

[windfish]

I am Mikhail Wulf
My moniker is Weisser Wulf

I had a chance to sit down with Mr Runstedt (Nazi Wulf)
Whilst he was on his Death bed.

here is that interview

(Me Mikhail) So I have heard that you fought under the csa during the civil war is this true and how did that go?

(Nazi Wulf) I sho nuff did fight for that thar CSA,
ya see mah brethren back in 1972 in the civil war germany reinducted me into that thar Deutsch army and we don went on fought as confederates,
we helped them thar american confederates wi nthat thar "civil war"
But thanks to this hear superior aryan technology we can manipulate time and do space travel since the late 1930's.


(Me) well that is very nice,So how do you feel about losing World war 2?

(Nazi Wulf)world war 2 wasnt actaully lost
in fact Mein Fuhrer Adolf Hitler Dun went and took the whole world,
it is a massive conspiracy

(Me) and the Civil war?

(Nazi Wulf) and that thar civil war dun went and actaully happened in the 1970's,
You see with our superior nazi technology we dun went and gone manipulating things.

(Me) so what is prostate cancer like?

Nazi Wulf) What they hell do yo dumb azz think its like,
It hurts lak a *****,
I iz in pain what in tarnation is going on here im gonna die!
dog on it!

I don't know what multiplicity means either.

Haha! Godwin's Law has been fulfilled. More or less.

 

[Sib]

im going to assume youre being facetious with what you just said, because youre on the escapist who ive seen to be generally intelligent people.
sadly though, i wouldnt put this attitude past some people i hear on xbox live, the whole "america is godly" has got a little out of hand
- eurofag

 

[hellthins]

If you doubt the truthosity of my statement you're doubting the truthosity that Jesus Christ is both our lord and savior and is really the driver behind every person that wins Daytona.

DAAAYTOOOONAAAA

 

[Easykill]

Well yes, I doubt that too.

 

[Shamtee]

Mostly everyone get my accent, the scary thing is I've been stalked though team speaks before because 'I have a sexy brit accent'. Its not just the stalking its what they say, i wish they just insult me >> I don't really go on my mic anymore.

I feel sorry the guy in the flat above me. Hes Scottish but everyone he talked to over xbox live thinks his irish.

 

[Sib]

If you doubt the truthosity of my statement you're doubting the truthosity that Jesus Christ is both our lord and savior and is really the driver behind every person that wins Daytona.

DAAAYTOOOONAAAA

meh jesus christ, overrated much? atheism kicks ass.

 

[Thaliur]

A British priest who once visited my hometown asked me for direction to church near where I live.
I wanted to get home from university, so I joined him on the bus. After we've talked for some time, he asked me if I learnt to speak English in Wales, because I had quite a strong Welsh accent. He was a bit surprised when I told him that I learnt English in school only, and sadly never visited the kingdom yet.
I guess our local accent, and some strange mixture of those of our teachers somehow created something that sounds Welsh.

Oh, I'm German, by the way

 

[The Potato Lord]

If you doubt the truthosity of my statement you're doubting the truthosity that Jesus Christ is both our lord and savior and is really the driver behind every person that wins Daytona.

DAAAYTOOOONAAAA

meh jesus christ, overrated much? atheism kicks ass.

I wish I had a link to Dane Cook's most recent stand-up special...

 

[Shiroi_Okami]

How often do you get noted as being "foreign" when playing online?

As someone not from the USA I am often pinged by other players as sounding "foreign". This is somewhat amusing given that - for an American - 95.5% (actual percentage) of people are "foreign".

Me, I come from a country that accounts for 0.06% of the global population which means Americans generally figure I'm British - or if they are pre-pubescent a "Britfag" - or Australian. For a Kiwi (a native of New Zealand or a small nocturnal flightless bird with a long beak, not the Chinese Gooseberry) this evokes the feeling a Canadian gets when confused for someone from Kentucky.

On one occasion I was accused of being Iranian to which I IRONICALLY replied "Yes, I am from Iran, we all speak with English accents there". This meant for the next 10 minutes I was the subject of an unrelenting tirade of abject, incomprehensible hatred. Sorry mate, NZ is part of Operation Enduring Freedom (many of my best mates deployed for the Gulf last Monday) and we're in the South Pacific, next stop Scott Base, Antarctica, not Islamabad.

Anyone else had similar experiences? Where are you from and who do you generally get confused for?

I have the exact same problem. spending the first 10 years of my life in new zealand (Kiwi Power!), and the next eight in australia, then moving to ireland just recently (and subsequently playing in the atlanmtic timeframe for things like halo 3), i am constantly accused of being from all parts of the globe. it may be the mix of new zealand and autralian accents that throws people off, but its kinda of irritating to be accused of being a 'british bastard', an 'american fag', or in one case, an 'imperialist jap'. though the latter may have been caused because i got into a conversation in japanese with another guy who could speak it. funnily enough though, the only people who seem to mind are americans. whereas most other people will note the accent as inquire as to where im from. its american that go; omfg, another f***ing foreigner. it irritates me sometimes. usually though once i tell them im not british, and am, in fact, pacific born and bred, relations improve.

 

[NotPigeon]

Rob Inglis]I can't relate but I can sympathize. Truth is, most Americans don't know the difference between a real British speaker and a real Australian speaker. Truthfully all information we get if from movies (wonder how many times this has happened[sarcasm]). Mostly they just dish this shit out because they think it makes them cool or empowers them, as the American Media pumps the youth full of the "America is Better than Everyone Else" syndrome. So it's left up to that individual to decide how they are going to act. Mostly these children or underdeveloped teenagers just aren't mature enough to control themselves and act civilized. I'm sorry that you all have to put up this crap from people.

Hold on there. Not all youth are propaganda-fed idiots. No more than the adults, at least.

Anyways, this thread reminds me of why I don't play online. Other than the fact that I don't own many online multiplayer games.

 

[MGAngel]

Whenever people ask me where I'm from, and I say Serbia, the question that immediately follows is "Isn't it freezing up there?" (Since people tend to mix Serbia and Siberia).

Also, on one occasion, some guy started spamming me on AIM, saying he knew me. When I told him I wasn't from the US, he replied: "Don't lie, if you're not from the US, how come you can speak English!?" (the sentence was in netspeak)

Every day, I think I can't feel worse about being born in America... and every day, I'm proven horribly wrong. I promise, we're not all pricks online; but the assholes do tend to voice their opinion a bit louder than the rest of us.

 

[NotPigeon]

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

We're not being taught blatant misinformation like that. Mostly it's the goddamned standardized tests.

 

[veryconfused]

I agree im an american boy of the teenage variety and quite oftenly poked fun at by drunk-ass frat boys for "high pitched" voice over XBL. I personally love playing with "foreigners" dring halo and CoD4 and they make a large portion of my friends list.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

I avoid voice chat with people I don't know in most games to avoid this kind of nonsense. I've never used my XBOX headset.

What always annoys me is the furor that erupts when someone uses a language other than English on an English speaking WoW server. Every time, without fail, someone will tell that person to start speaking English and an argument will ensue.

Also, Potato Lord, we are all saying America because that is often how the United States of America is referred to. Try not to let it upset you.

 

[DreamerM]

I don't play online at all. No monthly subscription fees for ME!

I have done a lot of traveling, around America, England, France, Germany, so on and so forth and to the best of my knowledge, no matter what your race, color, or nationality, if you are willing to treat someone like a person and not a strange forgien animal, people will USUALLY respond in kind.

If they've got enough attention to spare for racist, small-minded comments, they probably don't care about the game every much. The people worth playing with are those who are more conserned for wither or not you have their back in a fire-fight then what accent you happen to be using.

In Berlin I met this American who told me about a scholarship program he somehow won when he was in college that sent him on a free trip to some technical school in Poland. This was in 1982: so not only was he an American behind the Iron Curtain in the eighties, he was a BLACK American behind the Iron Curtain in the 80s. If he had been green and had antenae he could not have been farther from any sort of creature that the Poles had ever seen before. And he discovered that if you don't go into any given situation LOOKING for trouble, you probably won't find any.

Compare that though to the roommate of a friend of mine who was studying for a year in Holland: she got a roommate from former East Germany who was so outraged at having to room with an American that she left a letter on the kitchen table that said:

"I don't like Americans, and I specifically asked Admin NOT to pair me with one. My things are (A list of places around the room). You can use the cookware, but wash it when you're done.

I'll see you at the end of the year."

And that was it. She disappeared for the entire year: she never slept in her bed (or when she did she did it when my friend wasn't there), she refused to be in the same room, and wouldn't even lock eyes with my friend in the hallway. She just wanted nothing to do with her. At the end of the year, she was around long enough to collect her things and begone. They exchanged a total of maybe three words. My friend is a very friendly, nice, caring person, and being treated so coldly was something that really hurt her.

Though really, what can you DO in the face of that kind of mindset? There really isn't anything. I know there are americans who react the same way when confronted with people and places unfamiliar to them or against whom they bear a pre-existing prejudice and it's sad because sometimes, just nothing will get through to those people.

They do us all a terrible injustice as a species.

 

[InsanityManifest]

There was an epic CoD4 moment where I was playing SAS Team Deathmatch...You pretty much see where I am going with this.

Everyone on the team but me was speaking with a British accent. I don't have a headset so they referred to me as "that quiet bloke". I ended up on sniper duty, which suited everything just fine. I think they figured out I wasn't British, but it was still awesome.