Bro people typically jerk off to the video games here, not their own linguistic knowledge. Good on you, sincerely, but if you actually cared about other people learning it, you wouldn't talk shit about an entire country of people while making such a claim. Only an ignorant child paints an entire group of people with one brush.
I'm sorry if you feel like I was shitting on Americans. I was talking about my literal experience as someone that lived and grew up there (29 years). I'm not trying to be a stickler to the linguistics, but merely trying to inform a misconception. I do the same with Taiwanese people with English.
Nothing I've said is anything new or surprising to people outside the US or people inside the US. So much so that it's a recurring topic with women in the US, black people in the US, and even a trait featured about a certain former US president :
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to which, many of his admirers considers a strength:
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So you feel that me talking about true things in which the very people I'm allegedly "painting with one brush" complains about and/or reveres is bad because... reasons? Are you insisting that I should spend my time telling lies, because that's not something I'm use to or would want to do.
All-in-all, if you feel so bad about being corrected or feel personally attacked about my recounts of my past, maybe I'm touching on something you've done/said? I know my college academic advisor (whom ended up being my advisor for my senior year project as well) also feels defensive when I bring up that he thought I'd never graduate.
Either way, I've explained what netorare is vs. netori. A conversation and question someone else started, mind you. To me, it was like reading 2 people arguing the difference between a cheeseburger and a hamburger (i.e. obvious if you understand the words/names.). I'm not here to make people want to learn, I'm just trying to fill in gaps of knowledge. But note that if, as a person, you put your own personal ego over learning about reality, that says more about you and less about the person supplying said facts no matter how insulting delivery method may be. I think the current term in the US for people who care more about their feelings than facts is... snowflake? I believe?
