<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Sala, thank you. I have made my opinions clear here, and as I indicated earlier in this thread, those that nominated Parminder are entirely entitled to their opinion.<br><br>regards<br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 09-Jan-2014, at 11:28, Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro <<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Hi All,</div><div><br></div><div>Apologies for intervening late, been busy cooking amongst other things. This has gotten out of hand. There will be no more discussions on the incident as a complaint was filed and currently pending a decision hence no comment can be rendered at this point.</div><div><br></div><div>Let's focus on more pressing issues. Suresh, we have received your objection to The nomination as you had indicated by your -1 but that does not take away from those that have endorsed Parminder's nomination.</div><div><br></div><div>Let's keep the discussions dignified please.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>Sala</div><div><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Jan 9, 2014, at 5:00 PM, Sonigitu Ekpe <<a href="mailto:soekpe@gmail.com">soekpe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p>Hello Daniel,</p>
<p>I seem to disagree with your view in this Globalized Environment we currently find our selves.</p>
<p>Discipline is key and self control is paramount.</p>
<p>Our opinions should always put us in harmony with the Environment.</p>
<p>Messages can be put across without raising tensions and panics. What is the use of ethical controls?</p>
<p>My 50cent.</p>
<p>Sonigitu Ekpe Aji :-@ SEA</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 9, 2014 4:12 AM, "Daniel Pimienta" <<a href="mailto:pimienta@funredes.org">pimienta@funredes.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
This is getting quite personal now... Dont you think it is too much so?<br>
>From Deirdre's report I get that neither Suresh nor Mc Tim were present in that event,<br>
so why are they reporting about it?<br>
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When I read:<br>
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He was then physically aggressive/threatening towards me (no contact, but i felt physically threatened).<br>
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I must say that I totally trust this testimony: what people feels is an objective part of their own realm although it could be seen subjective from the outside.<br>
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However.<br>
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Just a highly probable hypothesis to try to put some calming to this personal situation.<br>
Cultures does matters. Difference of cultures makes a lot of ...difference.<br>
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I spent 2 years in assignment in the US back in 1984 (in the deep South), coming from my mediterranean culture.<br>
Every time I was getting anger (and in my culture we do not repress this state of mind, we just express our anger) I realized that some people around me felt physically threaten (in spite the fact I have never rised the hand to anybody and I am totally uncapable of any physical agression). It really impressed me a lot and obliged me, since i was living there, to try to adapt and change somehow behavior. I am not familiar with Indian culture but I wonder if we are not facing the same type of situation and my guess is that it is highly probable.<br>
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I do recommand the reading of US citizen author Edward T. Hall's "The hidden dimension" who brightly explained how cultural chocks create strange situatrons... and to cool down.<br>
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Conclusive question : are we supposed, on the top of being fluent in English, to embrace US culture in order to be allowed to participate in an IGF event?<br>
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