Why Are There So Few Japanese Apolytoners?

[Kassiopeia]

Phoenixcager: Got it. I was a just dishing out names that I had connected to Asia.

Originally posted by GP
Chowlett.

Finland-US < Japan-US

I should have said "even more different"

Or just said that they are not Western and that the primary culture on this board is Western.

Sidenote: According to most Finns, at least in the 90's "Finland was the most American country in the world." The promised land of the Bold and the Beautiful...

[MrWhereItsAt]

Japan has loads of stuff that never makes it anywhere overseas... surely the other way around is the case also? Perhaps no-one there has even HEARD of Civ....

I don't notice many (easy to spot) SE Asians here either. Yet Civ reached Malaysia when I live there probably before its official release. Maybe it's just not their thing?

[SnowFire]

I think the Japanese are for more into console gaming than computer gaming. They're probably all sat playing on their PS2's and Gamecubes rather than at their PC's.

I occasionally post at Final Fantasy Online (www.ffonline.com), which by all rights should have tons of Japanese people being that there are even more Final Fantasy players in Japan then the States & Europe. But there really aren't that many there, either (maybe 4% of the people). Although there are a fair number of people who have learned to speak Japanese, and there are quite a few SE Asians (mostly Chinese from what I can tell).

[Apocalypse]

Even 4% seems a little high, SnowFire. I still check by FFOnline once in a while, but PC related threats became far less frequent.

[Lodi]

Perhaps forums isn't their primary way of finding info on games and showing interest with others. Do they rely more on gaming magazines such as Famitsu for their info fix?

Or we could cite the Tom Green Monkey Hour MTV special shot over in Japan where he was on a subway and was being an obnoxious bugger while every Japanese person riding the subway was silent. Then one guys comes up to Green and tells him "We like quiet." or something to that effect. Maybe that type of preference to being quiet kind of stops them from being so much of a presence on forums. Who ever thought Tom Green would ever be able to present interesting facets to his viewers about other cultures?

But that may be just a Japanese thing since I think I heard that Finnish people do not really like to converse firsthand either but just look at all the Finns here. Or how they have so readily adopted the cell phone to communicate.

[DarkCloud]

btw, I thought Yin26 is an American living in Korea.

I'm pretty sure he is.

[DarkCloud]

then it follows there wouldn't be many people online with a further lacking in ISP developement throughout

Saw some figures somewhere today that the percent of people with internet access in Japan is the same or maybe a shade higher than in Germany. Didn't see anything about price though. NTT must surely be involved in some way, and IIRC they are a bit pricey.

Well, Lodi and Adam Smith- I believe that is due to the pervalence of internet cafes. They're big in the east but PC's aren't as big. Although many Japanese people own palm pilots, etc.

[DanS]

This is a good point, AS. I think much of the internet in Japan is the text messaging type.

We should have a lot of Korean posters, though, considering that last I checked the internet has a quite high penetration rate in Korea.

Of course, we have the Finns, who I'm convinced are a collection of autonomous 'net bots conceived in the mind of Linus Torvalds. They're everywhere, man!

[Skanky Burns]

Its a 'feature' of Linux me-thinks

btw, I thought Yin26 is an American living in Korea.

I'm pretty sure he is.

Confirmed. He is.

[Gatekeeper]

Everything I know about Japan I learned from watching "King of the Hill."

Gatekeeper

[TCO]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Its a 'feature' of Linux me-thinks

btw, I thought Yin26 is an American living in Korea.

I'm pretty sure he is.

Confirmed. He is.

You're the modern day Ras.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by GP

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Its a 'feature' of Linux me-thinks

btw, I thought Yin26 is an American living in Korea.

I'm pretty sure he is.

Confirmed. He is.

You're the modern day Ras.

You taught Ras

[aaglo]

Originally posted by GP
2. Their culture is more insular and different than ours.

IRL, is GP's name George Dubya Bush? 'Cos this "their culture is more different than ours" is a great bushism...


just kidding.... i hope

[Mercator]

AFAIK, Japanese is the second-most used language on the Internet after English (possibly only contended by German). But I also think they mostly keep to themselves, on Japanese sites

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by aaglo


IRL, is GP's name George Dubya Bush? 'Cos this "their culture is more different than ours" is a great bushism...


just kidding.... i hope

GP is a scriptwriter for "America's President - the series".