Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 17:19:28 11/14/99
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On November 14, 1999 at 19:58:53, odell hall wrote: > The problem is I don't enjoy being called insane and stupid, especially when >it's from people who do not take the time to read and understand what I wrote. >Which I think was incredibly clear. As I mention money twice in the first >paragraph and the last. The real point though is even if my post was stupid, no >one has the right to say so, Such post should have been immidiatley rebuked by >the moderators. This did not happen!! If the moderators do not condemn such >statements than they are in effect supporting them. The cultural gaps between us are tremendous. we all have internet and we almost all live in year 2000 soon, but cultural gaps stop us from doing many many misunderstandings. As a european person e.g. i like heavy fights, full of tough and rude words, like it is done here in germany. i always wonder when an american takes these my words personal. i have found out that other europeans have made the same experience so i think it has to do with cultural experience. whenever i talk with americans they very fast shoot back taking it personal only because i am different opinion that they are. in europe / germany it is NOT an attack if you tell you neighbour in a discussion that you are different opinion. there is no sympathy or antipathy if you tell somebody that you are different opinion than he is. it is just a comment. not something personal ! it is just a comment. and even if you use very "fresh" words it does not say anything to the sympathy or antipathy towards this person, only because you comment negatively on what he says. I guess this has to do with the cultural history. Americans have weapons. colts and machine-guns and that stuff. so whenever somebody said something and they do not agree, they shoot before they think. maybe they are used to this kind of methods while fighting with indians. better shoot before arguing. i don't know. but we have different ways of SOLVING or HANDLING discussions. in europe e.g. children do very often criticize their parents. people are proud when their (hopefully strong) children do NOT agree with their parents. even if you have guests and they see this, people are proud and see it as a strength that their children have their own minds and disagree with FATHER. I guess almost NOBODY in germany woulds ask his children to say SIR to dad. This was in the 19th century in europe. I guess in america it is different. maybe because many european from the 19th century travelled to us. maybe because they had to fight for everything. whatever. but we HAVE these cultural differences. I think we should understand that many many problems we have here in this newsgroup has to deal with cultural differences. E.g. in europe people believe that the death-penalty is a barbarian action against human-rights. You cannot explain to europeans why americans bring children into prison (e.g. a young brother who helped his sister). there are cultural gaps. in actions and in discussions too. We should accept that we all have different roots and it is all very complicate.
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