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Old 2013-02-06, 19:46   Link #219
DonQuigleone
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Originally Posted by Ledgem View Post
True. I was actually thinking "American nerds" every time I wrote "western nerds" and just sort of assumed that the rest of the western world was more or less similar. (An assumption like that is the typical American thing to do, amirite? ) Even so, you're correct: even comparing American society with Japanese society, American society is more diverse and it makes sense that such diversity would filter down to sub-categorizations.
Yes, even shrinking down to just the USA, you're going to get a lot more diversity then Japan. For instance an African American Nerd from Detroit may not have that much in common with a White Nerd from Texas.

Also, due to the US's presence in the English speaking world, the USA is subject to more foreign influences then Japan would be (for instance Grand Theft Auto, a game very popular in the United States, was made in the UK).

The US is also just geographically bigger. Almost all Otaku would fairly easily be able to go to travel to Tokyo once a year for the Comiket, with almost all of Japan's population being concentrated in the Tokyo Metro area, and the Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe Metro. Meanwhile, an American living in New York would have great difficulty travelling to the San Diego Comic Con, and in fact is very likely to never have even been to the West Coast in his entire life (and even less likely to have travelled to the UK).
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