The title of this reading caught my eye from the jump because its an old school saying that i grew up hearing all the time, and i always felt this saying had truths to it. I feel that there are always some forms of racism still going on in the world today, which is true on many different levels. I just did not know that this particular form of racism was on one of those levels that we still deal with today. Its honestly not too surprising i can say, but this definitely brings clarity to the equation. Another thing kind of baffling to me is the fact that people actually go to the distance that they do with gill- buying practice. Real money trading, or buying and selling in game property for real money is widely considered the worst form of cheating.
There are bad cliche sayings now that we correlate with certain ethnicity’s that we don’t have the right to say or do. Just like driving on Georgia Techs campus and driving behind a slow driver, and saying they’re a bad driver, they must be Asian. Automatically assuming that bad drivers are Asians, which could be one of the most ignorant things you’ve heard. The main talk about this reading i think was gold farmers and Chinese. We all know that video games are a virtual thing, that there isn’t an actual visual image or a live recorded video that shows you the person your playing, to even allow you to distinguish what that persons ethnicity is. Although, it still seems as if people are still putting race into an equation that cant really be categorized by race.
Its also interesting to me that other players assumed to be gold farmers, is noted that the other players try to kill or harm that person for no reason except that that they might b a gold farmer. How would you even be able to make the assumption that a player is even Chinese in the first place. Its not even making complete sense to me.
Game Studies 
Reading this article, I could not believe how big of an industry this is. Additionally, I was very surprised to hear how racially targeted it is, especially to specific regions in Asia. I think it’s interesting how so many different games have things like this. For example, I used to play a lot of PUBG before cheating/hacking became so much of a problem that it’s hard to even play enjoyably now. In the game, there is almost an understanding that if someone is cheating in the game, that they are from the middle east. There have been far more reports of hacking there than anywhere else, and most people don’t even play on those servers anymore because it’s gotten so bad. I always knew video games were targets for bigotry because of their anonymity, but I had no idea just how large the scope of this type of racism is.
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I definitely agree with your viewpoint on the stereotypes and how ignorant they can be; especially in the game world when you never know who is truly behind the screen. I find it interesting how people often have to seek for a dominance or a leader, therefore someone always becomes a victim. In society, we have a hierarchy that allows for people to be oppressed so that there are clear lines for the dominant ideology. The same thing exists within video game culture. There is always an out group and I feel that video game culture makes that very prominent and real.
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Casual racism can be weirdly prevalent in certain gaming circles. I definitely agree with what Nakamura is saying here, as people sometimes bring their own prejudices along with them while gaming. They weaponize their bigotry but will often claim it to just be an “edgy” joke.
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