Talk:MEIKO/@comment-71.224.240.175-20120806212627/@comment-53539-20120821194733

I won't nessecary all Americans are mean, and its not safe to say they are, because this is sterotypiing. But I DID have a lot of bad experiences in my net days that took several years to get my confidence over. It came as a bit of a shock and it wasn't until about 2007 I started to actually admit where I came from again, usually I only said where I was from if someone else had already said they were not from America.

A lot of the problem was just that they were not used to other cultures, so sharing a space on the net from anyone else around the world came as a bit of a culture shock to them too. Up until the mid-00's they still were ruling the roast in many fandoms. Partcularly when countries like the UK under Labour government started entering the net suddenly, a world that few had barely interacted with had been presented to them and they were being more and more forced to accept it., its also why a sudden booming interest in Japanese animation exploded also. I mean, they had access to things like this they had never had acess to..