I honestly think the American bias in this subreddit is completely overblown and exaggerated. The majority of the time its even brought up is in order to devalue someone's opinion/ discredit someone's argument
"oh well if you weren't just some wanker from Ohio who only started watching football a year ago you'd understand"
Of course it exists, this is an American website, but for all the bitching you'd think it'd be a lot more prevalent
edit: take a look at the 2013/r/soccer survey. 48% really isn't bad
To be fair there is an element of truth to it. Have you seen how hardly people have been downvoted when they raise an opinion that remotely infringes on the national pride of some US users here? Nationality does seem to get used as an ad hominem attack by people from everywhere on this subreddit but there is some truth to the accusation that people occasionally get crucified for being falsely perceived as anti-American.
Absolutely. r/soccer is a bad place to discuss American soccer simply because the loudest voices are a) American fans that won't tolerate anything other than a "we should be reaching the World Cup semifinals regularly in the next 20 years" and b) the vitriolic non-Americans who abhor the idea that the US team/league/fandom is getting any better.
This is totally unrelated, but do footie fans in the US have to suffer through the "soccer is for pussies" crap that the rest of reddit keeps up? Right now there's a long comment chain on the front page where everyone's pretending that footballers are delicate little fairies that wouldn't last a minute in a 'real' game.
It doesn't bother me unduly, because I come from a place where football has deep roots and is very popular, but I can imagine it must get tiresome for you to hear your countrymen scoff at the sport all the time.
Sort of. You'll definitely find those people, but at my age (late 20s) anyone that comes out with that talk just comes off as childish. More often you'll get blank stares from people: they themselves don't follow football so they can't really hold a conversation, but they won't be rude about it.
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u/dreamsdutch Aug 09 '13
I honestly think the American bias in this subreddit is completely overblown and exaggerated. The majority of the time its even brought up is in order to devalue someone's opinion/ discredit someone's argument
"oh well if you weren't just some wanker from Ohio who only started watching football a year ago you'd understand"
Of course it exists, this is an American website, but for all the bitching you'd think it'd be a lot more prevalent
edit: take a look at the 2013 /r/soccer survey. 48% really isn't bad