Comments on: Virtual protest in China http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/12/virtual-protest-in-china/ The China History Group Blog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:40:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dan http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/12/virtual-protest-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-96697 Dan Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:01:19 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/12/virtual-protest-in-china/#comment-96697 The anti-Chinese sentiment is, in my experience, mostly down to <a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62500" rel="nofollow">Gold Farming</a>. It's just about a textbook example of racial stereotyping: people see a lot of Chinese players doing something they shouldn't, and extrapolate to 'all Chinese are criminals'. The anti-Chinese sentiment is, in my experience, mostly down to Gold Farming. It’s just about a textbook example of racial stereotyping: people see a lot of Chinese players doing something they shouldn’t, and extrapolate to ‘all Chinese are criminals’.

]]> By: Corey http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/12/virtual-protest-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-82699 Corey Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:14:02 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/12/virtual-protest-in-china/#comment-82699 It is more of a jealousy thing, I think. Honestly, while playing games in Taiwan, games that I'd played for years, I was destroyed easily by the Taiwanese and Korean players. I don't have the time to spend hours and hours in cyber cafes playing these games, but they do. I can only imagine this is the same way, as I've read about the Chinese being "uber gamers" as well, in China, that they have that strange want to sit in front of a monitor for hours a day. Asians just have that...time? to sit and power-up their characters...we don't. It is more of a jealousy thing, I think. Honestly, while playing games in Taiwan, games that I’d played for years, I was destroyed easily by the Taiwanese and Korean players. I don’t have the time to spend hours and hours in cyber cafes playing these games, but they do. I can only imagine this is the same way, as I’ve read about the Chinese being “uber gamers” as well, in China, that they have that strange want to sit in front of a monitor for hours a day.

Asians just have that…time? to sit and power-up their characters…we don’t.

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