Why not have a ClashCon in the U.S.?

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Originally Posted by Pranav

2 things

1. this is the first clashcon
2. supercell is not an american company, but a finnish company. if they were american, then maybe u would have a point

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Pretty sure there has been clash con every year since the game came out??

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Originally Posted by bactgudz

When hosting your first large marketing convention and figuring everything out, would you rather have you and your employees be like 0-100 km from the office/home or 7,000 km from the office/home?

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7,000 km away from my office because I hate my job and wife.

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Originally Posted by J1M808

Pretty sure there has been clash con every year since the game came out??

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Hmmm it clearly says "be part of the clash history! Meet other players on our VERY FIRST ClashCon in Helsinki, Finland on 24th of october 2015",

So Im pretty sure its the first

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Originally Posted by joshthegreat83

No I actually checked the stats of currently active players on this site. Clashofclansforecaster.com. It seperates the countries and its players.

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1. Read disclosures. Those stats aren't official numbers from SC and are "in no way connected to or directly based on the Clash of Clans servers"
2. SC is a Finnish company and it makes perfect sense why they have their 1st official ClashCon in Finland

As an American, threads like this are just embarrassing. :facepalm:

Here manifests the age-old 'ugly American' stereotype wherein people from the United States tend to acknowledge the rest of the world exists, while wondering aloud whether there is a point to the rest of the world. And you have to understand that we Americans live in a culture dominated by all things America, we share a border with only two countries, Canada and Mexico, and a surprising number of Americans couldn't even tell you that much. At this time, I inhabit a city which is probably at around a couple thousand miles (quite a few more Communist kilometers) from any international border (unless you want to count our many federally recognized tribes, but that's not really the point here).

The mindset in other cultures is different. If you were to hop in your car and travel 300 miles (again, more kilometers than that), you're probably going to be speaking another language, recognizing a completely different government, remarking how your people once fought wars with these people and everything is now hunky dory. If I was to travel 300 miles in any given direction, the cities look much the same give or take a few attractions here and there, and the rest is quite homogenized, even down to the arrangement of merchandise at your local retailer (a Wal-Mart, no doubt).

I guess what I'm trying to say is pardon us. We come from an insular (yet open), self-obssessed country and lack the tact to recognize that in ourselves!

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Originally Posted by LegionOK

As an American, threads like this are just embarrassing. :facepalm:

Here manifests the age-old 'ugly American' stereotype wherein people from the United States tend to acknowledge the rest of the world exists, while wondering aloud whether there is a point to the rest of the world. And you have to understand that we Americans live in a culture dominated by all things America, we share a border with only two countries, Canada and Mexico, and a surprising number of Americans couldn't even tell you that much. At this time, I inhabit a city which is probably at around a couple thousand miles (quite a few more Communist kilometers) from any international border (unless you want to count our many federally recognized tribes, but that's not really the point here).

The mindset in other cultures is different. If you were to hop in your car and travel 300 miles (again, more kilometers than that), you're probably going to be speaking another language, recognizing a completely different government, remarking how your people once fought wars with these people and everything is now hunky dory. If I was to travel 300 miles in any given direction, the cities look much the same give or take a few attractions here and there, and the rest is quite homogenized, even down to the arrangement of merchandise at your local retailer (a Wal-Mart, no doubt).

I guess what I'm trying to say is pardon us. We come from an insular (yet open), self-obssessed country and lack the tact to recognize that in ourselves!

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Thank you for speaking for the rest of the Americans. Now I know that you guys don't intend to be selfish and think the world revolves around you lol

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Originally Posted by LegionOK

As an American, threads like this are just embarrassing. :facepalm:

Here manifests the age-old 'ugly American' stereotype wherein people from the United States tend to acknowledge the rest of the world exists, while wondering aloud whether there is a point to the rest of the world. And you have to understand that we Americans live in a culture dominated by all things America, we share a border with only two countries, Canada and Mexico, and a surprising number of Americans couldn't even tell you that much. At this time, I inhabit a city which is probably at around a couple thousand miles (quite a few more Communist kilometers) from any international border (unless you want to count our many federally recognized tribes, but that's not really the point here).

The mindset in other cultures is different. If you were to hop in your car and travel 300 miles (again, more kilometers than that), you're probably going to be speaking another language, recognizing a completely different government, remarking how your people once fought wars with these people and everything is now hunky dory. If I was to travel 300 miles in any given direction, the cities look much the same give or take a few attractions here and there, and the rest is quite homogenized, even down to the arrangement of merchandise at your local retailer (a Wal-Mart, no doubt).

I guess what I'm trying to say is pardon us. We come from an insular (yet open), self-obssessed country and lack the tact to recognize that in ourselves!

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heh heh heh,
2 things,
1. Thank you,
2. Communist kilometers??? Im Dutch, we were never or will ever be communists, but we use kilometers.

Actually kilometers excisted long before communism.
Also 1 mile is about 1.5 kilometer.
Speaking about land miles, sea miles are even larger

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Originally Posted by LegionOK

As an American, threads like this are just embarrassing. :facepalm:

Here manifests the age-old 'ugly American' stereotype wherein people from the United States tend to acknowledge the rest of the world exists, while wondering aloud whether there is a point to the rest of the world. And you have to understand that we Americans live in a culture dominated by all things America, we share a border with only two countries, Canada and Mexico, and a surprising number of Americans couldn't even tell you that much. At this time, I inhabit a city which is probably at around a couple thousand miles (quite a few more Communist kilometers) from any international border (unless you want to count our many federally recognized tribes, but that's not really the point here).

The mindset in other cultures is different. If you were to hop in your car and travel 300 miles (again, more kilometers than that), you're probably going to be speaking another language, recognizing a completely different government, remarking how your people once fought wars with these people and everything is now hunky dory. If I was to travel 300 miles in any given direction, the cities look much the same give or take a few attractions here and there, and the rest is quite homogenized, even down to the arrangement of merchandise at your local retailer (a Wal-Mart, no doubt).

I guess what I'm trying to say is pardon us. We come from an insular (yet open), self-obssessed country and lack the tact to recognize that in ourselves!

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I'll forget that stereotype if Americans forget the stereotype that English people have bad teeth, are all posh and all play cricket :smirk:

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Originally Posted by LegionOK

As an American, threads like this are just embarrassing. :facepalm:

Here manifests the age-old 'ugly American' stereotype wherein people from the United States tend to acknowledge the rest of the world exists, while wondering aloud whether there is a point to the rest of the world. And you have to understand that we Americans live in a culture dominated by all things America, we share a border with only two countries, Canada and Mexico, and a surprising number of Americans couldn't even tell you that much. At this time, I inhabit a city which is probably at around a couple thousand miles (quite a few more Communist kilometers) from any international border (unless you want to count our many federally recognized tribes, but that's not really the point here).

The mindset in other cultures is different. If you were to hop in your car and travel 300 miles (again, more kilometers than that), you're probably going to be speaking another language, recognizing a completely different government, remarking how your people once fought wars with these people and everything is now hunky dory. If I was to travel 300 miles in any given direction, the cities look much the same give or take a few attractions here and there, and the rest is quite homogenized, even down to the arrangement of merchandise at your local retailer (a Wal-Mart, no doubt).

I guess what I'm trying to say is pardon us. We come from an insular (yet open), self-obssessed country and lack the tact to recognize that in ourselves!

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From what I see, us Americans see the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots and the rest of the world sees us as a bunch of fat idiots. Kidding of course, but this post above is spot on! XD

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Originally Posted by LegionOK

As an American, threads like this are just embarrassing. :facepalm:

Here manifests the age-old 'ugly American' stereotype wherein people from the United States tend to acknowledge the rest of the world exists, while wondering aloud whether there is a point to the rest of the world. And you have to understand that we Americans live in a culture dominated by all things America, we share a border with only two countries, Canada and Mexico, and a surprising number of Americans couldn't even tell you that much. At this time, I inhabit a city which is probably at around a couple thousand miles (quite a few more Communist kilometers) from any international border (unless you want to count our many federally recognized tribes, but that's not really the point here).

The mindset in other cultures is different. If you were to hop in your car and travel 300 miles (again, more kilometers than that), you're probably going to be speaking another language, recognizing a completely different government, remarking how your people once fought wars with these people and everything is now hunky dory. If I was to travel 300 miles in any given direction, the cities look much the same give or take a few attractions here and there, and the rest is quite homogenized, even down to the arrangement of merchandise at your local retailer (a Wal-Mart, no doubt).

I guess what I'm trying to say is pardon us. We come from an insular (yet open), self-obssessed country and lack the tact to recognize that in ourselves!

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Interesting point of view. However, how do you explain countries like China or Japan where China is comparably the same size as US and Japan is an isolated country surrounded by sea?

To me, that kind of prowess in Americans is simply US's world dominance in everything it does. From economy, military, technology, sports, language, Americans don't see a need to know other countries because they are already the best in most of the things they do. Honestly, it is a very short-sighted view and these Americans are confined into their own culture and eventually they will fall far behind to the rest of the world. Americans living in big cities like San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Houston..etc are very open minded because the cultures in those cities are so diverse. It is the Americans who live in lesser cities who still think everything should revolve around America...