[JakeBarkings]

I've heard that Canada and the US Midwest have a few kendoka here and there...

I was going to put the U.S.-Midwest there. However, there were only 10 possible options (max) that I could put in the poll. I thought if I put down the midwest, it'd be even worse (as far as subdividing the U.S.) I thought I should try to put down at least one other area of the globe.

I forgot about Canada.
pffft. I guess I really am a typical American. :\
Sorry Canada!

Apparently other countries aren't significant enough to subdivide or even warrant a mention, despite the fact that nearly all the people responsible for providing this very service are from countries not mentioned in the list.

Yeah. I tried to group as many as possible, (with the exception of the U.S. and Europe I guess) because I only had ten options available. I also figured that, since this is an English speaking forum, most likely there would be people from English speaking nations (with some bilingual people here and there.) Europe got subdivided because sooooo many people there are multi-lingual. (at least in my experience).

I wanted to add Australia/New Zealand/Phillipines area, but then I'd have to take out one of the other continents.

I wanted to add Russia but, I didn't remember seeing a single user from Russia on here.

I should have added China.

Hmmm, maybe it would have been better if I had just done it by continents/areas, rather than countries. Again I only had ten possible poll options to work with.

If you were going to do a survey you would think each country major federation would be included, I mean china and russia are pretty big, why didnt they get subdivided, and the land down under is an entire continent, all the other continents got their own division. And Hawaii, I mean they have their own governing body for kendo, last time i checked there kendo was bigger there than in the rest of the USA put together..... And then you have the UK, i'm sure they dont appreciate being lumped in with the tossers in the rest of europe, I mean come on, your euros are no good here.

/dont want none of your deutchy markies
//I have no idea what a tosser is, it just sounded good here
///apparantly I think i'm on fark

Yeah that would have been a better idea. Are the total number of federations under 10??

It's hard to understand why one would ask a two part question to a one-dimensional poll. Apparently, people don't move?

Of course people move! I'm very nomadic myself- or at least I'd like to be. I was basically asking "Where are you from RIGHT NOW?" But "where are you from right now" sounded a bit lame. So I added the second question on in the post, in an attempt to clarify. Apparently it failed.

It's not unusual in any english-language forum. There are other nations that are punching above their weight class here. Australia has 28 representatives which is about 16% of the US count, with a population that's only 5% of the USA's if memory serves.
About 38%, actually.

I should have put Australia. It was either Australia/New Zealand/Philippines area or Africa. I felt bad about leaving Africa out.

I knew this was gonna be good the minute I clicked...

This very topic is proof to the fact that internet activity does not equal Kendo activity (it's an inverse proportion, sometimes!)

[tease] I guess the US just have the largest number of people with too much time in their hands, or wanting to avoid working [/tease]

Also: just me!! yay?

Yeah, quite obviously. 90% of my dojo never looks at KW (I think). Unless they are lurking as guests.

I also think that, it's certain...*ahem* people that tend to be louder...or more expressive...than others. Which I don't think is a bad thing!