[governance] Re: ICANN to shut down internet for one hour

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Avri,

I can tell you about at least 110 million people who do not celebrate 
April Fools' Day, Mexico. We have our own strong tradition of fooling, 
jokes and chicanery on December 28. We have been warned of the influence 
of Anglo culture and are doubly skeptical with respect to messages from 
outside our cultural sphere (we don't believe everything that comes from 
Fox News anyway on any given day.)

Since the tradition seems to originate from a Christian-specific 
significant date, it seems possible that 2/3 of the world not only do not 
know about April Fools' Day, they resent the practical jokes as inflicted 
on them.

Finally: it is very telling that about the petty obsessions of some what 
they choose to joke about in exposing themselves to the world - a day 
late.

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Avri Doria wrote:

> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:57:50 +0200
> From: Avri Doria <avri at psg.com>
> Reply-To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, Avri Doria <avri at psg.com>
> To: Governance Caucus <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
> Subject: Re: [governance] Re: ICANN to shut down internet for one hour
> 
> Hi,
>
> a serious question.
>
> does every culture celebrate 1 april with practical jokes?
>
> a.
>
>
> On 2 Apr 2008, at 15:50, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 01:42:58PM +0000,
>> kwasi boakye-akyeampong <kboakye1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote
>> a message of 91 lines which said:
>> 
>>>   The article is not clear on which Tuesday this exercise is
>>>   expected to take place;
>> 
>> Yesterday, April 1st...
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