Japan vs. English

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It's just what I've experienced ingame. Most japanese players I've seen or partied with have either not been able to, or chose not, to communicate in English. Maybe I've just had some bad luck, I don't know. One thing I do know though, is that if I knew Japanese, I would do my best to communicate with other japanese players in a party. If a Japanese player knows English but choose not to use it in a party with non-Japanese, I think he's being silly. If a japanese player is good at English, I become happy, because it becomes much easier to communicate with that person.

Okay, "not too much to ask for" was perhaps a bit over the edge. If they don't know it, it's kinda silly to expect them to learn it for just the sake of this game.

I think you need to understand that Japan is still very racist (generalized statement, but oh well), and a lot of them won't talk to you in english because they think you are scum. It's the harsh reality.

It's also not just a matter of them not being able to communicate, so they won't party with you. It's because there are so many stupid NA players (and they classify other english countries as being NA for some reason), and they hate them. I remember seeing a search comment by a Japanese player from NewCompany (known to be very very racist and monopolized a lot of FFXI), which pretty much said "Die you english bastards" or something to that effect.

I mean, Japan has only opened themselves to the world in the last 100 years or so, wasn't it? I guess that's not much excuse, seeing as there are still NA players who'll be racist towards the Japanese as well.

I'm not talking about the business world.

It does not matter, it is still known to be a very popular international language.