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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aleks Krotoski

More stereotypes in cyberspace: the case of South Koreans vs. Chinese

Racism isn't only a World of Warcraft issue. Joystiq and the Financial Times report that South Korean players of mega-online game Lineage are ganging up on people they suspect to be Chinese because they view them as "greedy" and "rude".

Spinning off from the view that most online game sweatshop workers come from China, some South Korean gamers are blocking Chinese IP addresses and committing violent massacres on people they suspect are Chinese "because they can't speak Korean".

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