[Ambassadors] FYI Fedora 12 one page release notes. :)

Sergey Podushkin psv at abbris.ru
Wed Mar 31 08:10:51 UTC 2010


Izhar Firdaus пишет:
> Cultural sensitivity awareness  is not a one way thing ..
>
> No matter what you display everything can be interpreted differently
> by different people .. whether you like it or not .. we cant prevent
> that .. its impossible ..
>
> symbols interpretation is always relative to culture and surroundings
> .. the cross can be interpreted holy by GroupA, but can be interpreted
> as an a symbol of insult by GroupB ... but that does not mean GroupB
> should be offended if they see a member of GroupA is wearing a cross
> ..
>
> being sensitive to these differences does not only mean that PersonA
> should refrain from doing doing something that's fine in PersonA's
> culture if PersonA knows that in the culture of PersonB its an
> offensive thing.
>
> but it also mean a PersonA should tolerate if PersonB did something
> that to PersonB's culture its fine but offensive to PersonA's culture
you're right, but we as international multicultural community can, and 
probably must, make such offense as minimal as possible.

Sergey
neverho0d



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