The reason why Americans are targeted in the UK is actually a reverse-exotification. British men know American women like British accents, so they’ll be *easier* to pick up. It’s not the Americans are seen as better, it’s that to the cold, calculated, sex-focused mind of a young man, he can hook up with a prettier…

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A deranged tyrant who runs a technologically backwards country? Mac is EXACTLY what I’d expect.

Well they also don’t have Koopas piloting them, but I guess alterations had to be made all around.

I’ve also noticed that the standard of beauty here in America is very distorted and idealized. In other countries you have men who like women for features that you don’t find in Hollywood. I remember when I was younger God forbid I dated a chubby girl because my shitty friends would make fun of me. After a while I…

Your blood volume increases and your blood also has to start circulating through the placenta, as well as all kinds of hormone level shifts, up and down, and it really can be a rollercoaster.

America is a racist shit hole. Every non American who visits there will tell you this, and every American that travels over seas will tell you this.

Every American who never goes anywhere, or does and stays in hotels and does the tourist game will claim other wise. OTHER PLACES HAVE PROBLEMS TOO!! They scream, they…

In your experience, does it seem like you are really appreciating the presence of less anti-blackness, or experiencing a bias that favors you because of your nationality in a way that softens the blow? There are places where Africans are treated horribly and American blacks are treated better than in America because…

and there’s Starfox Zero coming for Wii U, too...

Germany isn’t a less prejudiced country just because they direct their bigotry towards the Turkish and Polish instead of blacks.

Yeah, I don’t think it’s really up to Nintendo to decide if a game involving Star Wars gets made. Besides, Mario Kart 8 is reason enough to buy a Wii U, if you’re actually into that sort of thing. And if you’re missing Star Fox 64, the 3DS version of that game is excellent. Sooo.. get a 3DS, I guess.

I think it also has to do with the fact that when you travel to another place to them you are foreign and “exotic”. I have a friend who doesn’t get any attention here in Mexico but whenever she crosses the border men do flirt with her, she is not black nor white, so I think sometimes it’s just being from somewhere…

Your experience in Italy matches up to what I’ve heard - except worse because you’re Black. From what I understand, Italian men are a lot more aggressive in their harassment of any woman, and if they assume you’re a sex worker, that has to be magnified.

Sidenote: wtf, Italian guys. Wtf.

I don’t know - I think that an element of the article is true. I’ve just moved to London from the US. I’ve been here for 9 months now and I moved from Philadelphia. Compared to Philadelphia, there are so many more mixed raced couples. And not casual hookups - but couples walking around with babies. Young couples…

I’m sure you’re right about the trafficking of African women influencing perceptions, but large numbers of Eastern European women are also trafficked in Europe. I’ve been grabbed and groped in Italy, Spain, Greece and I’m white. Those countries are equal opportunity gropers, I guess. (For the young...I doubt it’ll be…

And therein lies the difference. Being Black and American is totally different from being one of their own. Mostly people assume that you’re educated and middle class (at least) since you’ve come there to study and treat you more respectfully than if they think you’re a migrant who’s come to steal their jobs. I…

It’s not black people per se, but Africans. I’m a (white) American living in Europe, and people are seriously racist towards African and Asian immigrants, but black Americans are just Americans. A black friend of mine got randomly attacked by some dudes in Amsterdam, who immediately stopped when he yelled at them in…

I think the reason it’s easier for foreigners to get action is that regardless of what your “disadvantages” are, you are exempt from your host countries rules. Being simply an American is exotic. From the wrong side of the tracks? Who cares! Nobody will know because those markers don’t exist in the foreignland.

I can’t see this having any impact on Minecraft really. Minecraft is fueled by a young generation, one who probably don’t know or care what Dragon Quest is.

Slapping the skin of a popular franchise of an aging audience onto a well established game design isn’t by any means indicative of success. If it was then Star…