It's not a secret that we have major corporations and political correct politicians that try their hardest to globalise the world.
At the same time, the ordinary people aren't prepared to give up their cultural identities and get one general identity for the entire planet.
There has been some progress in that manner:
Both are so different, the 2 just can't seem to get a common ground no matter what.
I want to explain here why based on my experience blending in with both.
When I joined the first Japanese Discord server 2 months ago, I was really hoping I could get westerners and Japanese people to communicate with each other.
The people from western servers were deeply divided here, while the people from Japanese servers just didn't want to.
Over the course of 2 months, I gained lots of respect from Japanese people for being able to speak Japanese, and being willing to learn more about the Japanese culture and stuff, despite not being Japanese myself, nor having any mutual or historic connections to Japan.
It made me really happy from the inside, and actually grew accustomed to them.
To such an extend that I even started to view the world like they do.
But the consequences are that I gradually started to join more Japanese servers, and leave more English servers.
This has nothing to do with "weebs" or solith, this has to do with the overall behaviour of the people.
What I considered normal before is what I consider rude now.
It's a bit hard to explain, but I suddenly started to feel that people on western servers were outright rude and discriminatory, despite they never actually changed.
People in the western world are quick to assume I'm some strange weaboo because I can speak Japanese (which is not what it actually means), usually act quite racist when I say something in Japanese just for fun, show a Japanese meme, or whatevs.
None of that exists in any of the Japanese servers, unless they're just joking around.
That way I discovered why the west and the far east will never unite, and thus remain separated forever.
It's because:
Eventually, this all leads us to the following misconceptions:
What are your thoughts here?
Did it help you understand the differences more, or do you think I'm just crazy?
I did my best to explain everything based on my own experience with both 'worlds' in an as neutral way as possible.
At the same time, the ordinary people aren't prepared to give up their cultural identities and get one general identity for the entire planet.
There has been some progress in that manner:
- All of Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand are considered "the west".
- Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau (and sometimes Russia and Mongolia too) are considered "far east".
- The south east of Asia is considered "South East Asia", the entire Muslim world + Israel have their own regional divisions.
- South America and anything else on the western hemisphere that's not North America is considered "Latin America".
- Not too sure about central and southern Africa, and the other nations in Oceania.
- And Russia and India are basically separate groups.
Both are so different, the 2 just can't seem to get a common ground no matter what.
I want to explain here why based on my experience blending in with both.
When I joined the first Japanese Discord server 2 months ago, I was really hoping I could get westerners and Japanese people to communicate with each other.
The people from western servers were deeply divided here, while the people from Japanese servers just didn't want to.
Over the course of 2 months, I gained lots of respect from Japanese people for being able to speak Japanese, and being willing to learn more about the Japanese culture and stuff, despite not being Japanese myself, nor having any mutual or historic connections to Japan.
It made me really happy from the inside, and actually grew accustomed to them.
To such an extend that I even started to view the world like they do.
But the consequences are that I gradually started to join more Japanese servers, and leave more English servers.
This has nothing to do with "weebs" or solith, this has to do with the overall behaviour of the people.
What I considered normal before is what I consider rude now.
It's a bit hard to explain, but I suddenly started to feel that people on western servers were outright rude and discriminatory, despite they never actually changed.
People in the western world are quick to assume I'm some strange weaboo because I can speak Japanese (which is not what it actually means), usually act quite racist when I say something in Japanese just for fun, show a Japanese meme, or whatevs.
None of that exists in any of the Japanese servers, unless they're just joking around.
That way I discovered why the west and the far east will never unite, and thus remain separated forever.
It's because:
- The west assumes every person on the planet can speak English and is just like the west but with minor differences.
- The far east gets annoyed by people who assume all of that, because far eastern cultures are much more connected to their cultural identities than western countries are, so disrespect to that is a direct insult to them. Likewise, respect to that makes them very happy.
- The west believes that westerners mimicking eastern cultures is the same as insulting eastern cultures.
- The east believes that westerners mimicking eastern cultures is the same as respecting eastern cultures.
- The west believes that easterners mimicking western cultures is the same as betraying western cultures.
- The east believes that easterners mimicking western cultures is the same as admiring western cultures.
- Westerners are individual thinkers; they believe it's better to express your opinion as a person.
- Easterners are collaborative thinkers; they believe it's better to express your opinion as a group.
Eventually, this all leads us to the following misconceptions:
- The west believes that the east is very racist, dangerous, and ill-minded.
- The east believes that the west is very selfish, dangerous, and ill-minded.
What are your thoughts here?
Did it help you understand the differences more, or do you think I'm just crazy?
I did my best to explain everything based on my own experience with both 'worlds' in an as neutral way as possible.
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