Posted by Sigismund on May 9, 2009, at 21:31:51
In reply to Re: Straightforward » Sigismund, posted by Dinah on May 9, 2009, at 20:21:26
There being no Japanese people on Babble (though I recall one from Beijing) is no doubt beside the point.
I'll bet if I'd done a phonetics of my accent there would have been no block.
It was that erection that did it.
All of my own opinion, of course.
Additionally, what is considered uncivil in some cultures is not in others and so on. What feels civil to Americans for example can feel insincere to Australians. What it's like when there are real cultural differences I have no idea. Certainly from an Iraqi or Afghani perspective, being able to discuss Democratic to Republican and everything in between may not seem like such a broad option.
I come from a country that has participated in every war going since the trouble in Sudan. Every year we celebrate our military failure on Turkish soil at Gallipoli, making no connection with that and the Armenian massacre. I don't know how well Australians would take it if the Japanese wanted to celebrate the failure of the bombing of Darwin every year in Darwin. But then they (like the US, I think) do not celebrate failure.
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