Yeah, while I can certainly see the positive intentions behind starting this thread, I'm not sure that I believe talking about hypothetical and/or nonspecific instances of bigoted remarks is a good idea.
When you use nonspecific examples, you get people jumping to assumptions on all extremes and then discussing, debating and/or arguing from those extremes which will never add up correctly.
I've seen a handful of remarks. One here that I reported and will stand by the fact that the comment (and thought being presented) was wholly wrong. The rest have been complete trollish behavior on the official forums from your usual suspects.
Just because a person says something wrong doesn't mean the worst of things about them, to be sure, but... I just honestly can't understand how a person can find it difficult to not jump to making out of line presumptions due to a person's race or nationality. It's just beyond me.
Specifically... I see a comment about NCSoft being out of touch with their Western branches, which has been reported repeatedly and is a non-argument, for certain. However, the reasons are not known to be cultural... Is anyone here going to tell me that they've never encountered, or heard of, a local American company where the HQ is trying to micromanage the different branches and it leads to complete ridiculousness and incompetence? Really? It happens
all the time.
And then, on the opposite side of things... When people are talking about the Eastern culture not being in love with the Western super hero genre, this is not racism or nationalism or anything of the sort and I don't
think anyone here, nor the OP, suggests that at all.
However, this is the danger of trying to discuss hypothetical and overly general instances instead of specific facts of a particular case.
"Racism/Nationalism is bad!"
"Hey, are you trying to say that I'm a racist for saying that I don't like salsa?"
And then it leads to talks about overreactions and under-reactions and... I just don't think it's a good idea (So, I just had to join in).
I think just about everyone here knows and understands the differences and we just need to handle any few cases that jump out accordingly.
Just my opinions!