@expensiveham: You implied and now cited ignorance on their behalf, whether you see it or not the crux of your wording is about a lack of perceived intelligence or understanding on the behalf of a nebulous collective that you're attributing the descriptor 'Americans' to. I did not imply you are racist merely self righteous with a touch of xenophobia, you misappropriated racism in this case. If your defence is to be that I am making things up and asuming then can we also decry your crass generalisation of the majority of Americans as opinion and assumption on your behalf?
I am NOT American, I am NOT affected by the majority of the companies listed in this poll, I am NOT what should be considered as a valid vote when polling American experiences with an American company.
You are not "stating facts" you are giving your opinion on how Americans percieve the world through the way you percieve Americans and using that as some kind of explanation of people's incredulity that a video game company that's made some poor decisions is being weighed against true examples of corporate / capitalist evil. The reason they might be judged unfavorably against such names is because someone who doesn't have any concept of the majority of poll options decided he should wield his ignorance like a weapon and cast a skewed vote in the fight against Sim City having small maps or Dungeon keeper on mobile being kind of crap.
Look at this from an objective point of view; I am Welsh, if there were a poll in my area asking what people wanted a new excess of government funding spent on with the options of better roads, better sports facilities, improved public education or Sheep and then a large collection of people who lived on another continent voted heavily for sheep with the logic of "lol I don't know what the roads, stadiums, schools etc. are like in Wales but I think sheep are adorable!" you can bet I'd be astounded at why people with no clue as to what they're actually saying with their vote decided to chime in.
I never said those votes are valid and i don't think you should vote unless you actually live in America and have had experiences with most of the companies on the list. I don't get why you wrote that comparison about Welsh government funding when i never said anything to imply that people outside of America should vote, i simply stated that they did. Yet again you seem to be drawing conclusions and arguing against things i never actually said because you misunderstood me.
When i was talking about stating facts i was talking about the fact that a lot of non-Americans vote on the poll, that is why i put them in the same sentence.
Still, Americans do have bad geographical skills and a poor sense of the outside world. Not only because of the education system but also because of the fact that Americans don't travel outside of their country nearly as much as Europeans do. Geographical illiteracy is rampant in the US and that bleeds into their attitudes and their perception on the rest of the world. There are hundreds of studies that prove this and anyone who spends a lot of time consuming American media and talking to Americans have surely experienced this. Obviously i am generalizing, would hard not to when you are talking about over 315 million people. There are exceptions to the rule, look at the knowledge Drew has about these kind of things compared to someone like Rorie for example.
Being bad at one thing does not make you stupid. I don't get why you think i am some smug asshole who thinks all Americans are stupid just i am pointing out one problem.
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