[Blarg]

I've met too many nice Japanese and Chinese(grew up with them in Guam and Hawaii) for me to think it's coincidence how cool they often are. I think it harkens back to the shared Confucian value system. Of course, they can also be very exclusive, and slow to really accept people on more than a surface level.

I've also found people from the Midwest in America are often extremely nice. Except for people from Detroit, person after person I have met from Michigan and Wisconsin and the like have been very friendly.

I've also found Germans and Italians to be often quite nice, and sometimes the British too. I've been kind of turned off by a number of the French, Spanish, Czechs, and Persians I've met; I've only met the latter in any volume.