Originally Posted by
Poubelle
Xenophobia is hatred of foreign things and foreign people. It's rampant in Japan due to its history and geography. While Japan is extremely Americanized nowadays, the xenophobia still very much exists there (there are many exceptions, especially with young people).
Those Japanese parties you're talking about are definitely xenophobic in some cases. Those players have the mindset that "foreigners are bad", "I don't want to play with a foreigner", and there's really no logic behind those statements. It's just plain xenophobia. In many cases, it doesn't even matter if that foreigner can read & write Japanese.
That behavior of barging in and acting like you own the place isn't really xenophobic. It's rude and disrespectful but I definitely haven't seen any "xenophobia" among the English community. If anything they're the opposite (straight up weaboos). American people (yeah I know not everyone here is American) are usually NOT xenophobic. We are so used to foreign things due to our history and geography. Melting pot and all that... foreign stuff is natural to us.
I don't think you can really fault people for not knowing Japanese because it's not a very useful language to learn, so it isn't taught in schools. People who know Japanese went out of their way to learn it (which you can't expect someone to do specifically for PSO2) or they come from a Japanese family... etc.
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