Re: Cross cultural war games Was: [FT] (LONG) The Balance of Power -- Fighters and a Defense

Glenn M Wilson wrote:

> Most war gamers in the hobby seem to be (not necessarily in this order
of
> magnitude): UK, USA, AUS, NZ, Europe with representatives on various
> lists from Singapore and Japan, Africa, the rest of Asia, Latin
America.
> Obviously most of the in person war gamers will be of the those
nations
> listed above, as far as I can tell.

Hey what about Canadians? We wargame here too.
 
> Part of this 'centric' war gamer aspect is that (Using myself as an
> example) that we tend to game in one language.  (With me it's Englsih
> although if I removed the 'rust' on my tounge and practiced real hard
I
> could get my Spanish back up to passable - my Aunt (Mexican national
> until last year) always said that I could learn to speak it if I
worked
> at it but I would have to work *very hard* to not sound like a
> Norteamericano.  There is no way I would want to even consider war
gaming
> in Cherokee! <grin>)	Even most Europeans probably war game in one
> language.

And that was the Japanese won't be able to decode your messages either.
:)