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Think of it like an MMO. In an MMO you have a bunch of players and those players are usually a member of a guild. Said guilds can have a variety of focuses similar to how every nation is different and focuses on different things. Some nations are more cultural while others are more industrial or scientific or what-not. Some of these 'nation-guilds' are also better than others. You have a bunch of 'casual' guilds with a bunch of low-quality players but you also have the more elite and focused 'hardcore' nation-guilds. Following along so-far?

Now imagine you're part of the elite, hard-core, raiding guild devoting all your time to taking down the newest content week one, or a high-end roleplay guild that deals with more involved storylines, better roleplayers, and events, but the GM's come down and force your guild to accept those casual players as well as to merge with other guilds. Suddenly your hard-core raiding guild is now bloated with newbies whom are all demanding their share of loot and progress and, while one or two may be good, the majority are just lay-abouts who can't even be bothered to do LFR/DF/whatever your MMO offers. Or your RP guild is now filled to the brim with idiots who either couldn't RP out of a paper bag or only care about sexual RP. Worse, now the raiding guilds have RP'ers in them and the RP guilds have raiders.

The casual players will probably be happy because they just got a massive slice of the pie and are now part of formally-exclusive guilds/nations, but they aren't putting in the work and effort to better themselves or really work with their new guild-members and are starting to demand things change to accommodate them. Meanwhile the older members of the guild (assuming they don't split off to form their own guild; I.E. Revolt/civil war/other stuff) have become hateful and resenting of the newcomers. After all, xXxDragonflukkerxXx got the Hammer of Smashing Gourds that the guy who has been raiding for months has been trying to and your characters heart-touching reunion with their parents got ruined by some dwarf who just wants to stick his handcannon up your rear.

Even if things do 'right' themselves and the casual players start behaving the guild is fundamentally changed at it's core and not a lot of people are going to be happy with that. Course it gets all the worse when you get berated as an elitist when you want the casuals gone. You may not even hate casuals and would normally be tolerant or even accepting of them; but the massive influx, disrespect, and social upheaval has forced you into an uncomfortable position and you want them gone to restore stability.

That's the problem with globalism in a nutshell... At least as how I've understood it. You're taking the cultures and success of some nations and forcing it to be spread around to people of others without requiring them to give back, acclimate, or even be thankful. An immigrant coming to a developed nation because the poor people are fat instead of thin but putting in no effort to give back or even respect his host nation. A people coming in to an established, storied, cultured nation and displacing it while others chide those upset at the lose of national identity and culture. Something given has no value. If you didn't bother to work and earn these things, to build these cultures, and everything else, why should you care about the harm being done?
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