On Tue, 6 Jan 2015 13:10:39 +0100, Martti Kühne wrote:
A country's laws doesn't say whether its citizens are idiots. It only gives an impression about its leaders.
Different cultural environments in general don't say something about the people being idiots or not idiots, but they explain why people are different. In e.g. Russia the homophobia issue isn't there because leaders made laws. The laws are more or less as liberal as in Western Europe. I don't depreciate other cultures for being different. However, if you're working with people from different cultural environments, as I sometimes do, e.g. with children from more than 40 nations, you can't do it without taking care about the existing differences. If Turkish and Kurd children or adolescents have a dispute and you are the responsible helper, you should be aware about the cultural differences. Ignoring differences doesn't change anything. Being aware about differences and speaking about it, does change the world. And just because in your world view people whoa are different are idiots, doesn't mean that I think that narrow-minded too. I guess your
Nice try tho for someone who [snip]
explains that you are not interested to communicate, you just want to show that you are that much better. A lot of "trolling", "flame-wars" wouldn't happen if people would accept different opinions, different cultures, without making assumptions. Feel free to continue, but I end this discussion now. Regards, Ralf