[governance] Re: Racismo étnico

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Greetings all...

I have not been able to follow the entire thread, but I really do agree
with Daniel. I also don't believe that north/south perspectives need
divide civil society; in fact I believe deeply that we need to be in
solidarity with one another and respect one another's struggles.

But there are differences... and for me they are quite profound
differences. Daniel Piementa describes it really well when he says:
" There is a South sensitivity and this is not a question of dividing
the community but rather acknowledging the existence of a different
perspective driven by
quite different contexts."

Anriette


On 15/06/2013 04:40, Daniel Pimienta wrote:
> Dear Mc Tim,
>
>> I think you have misunderstood the comments made by suresh, who is
>> also from the developing world.  I think what he was saying is that
>> there are some people on the list who purport to speak for the
>> developing world, but on this list, there is no representation, we
>> only speak for ourselves.
>
> Then you should leave Suresh speaks for himself.
> I definitively have not read his statement as you (representation was
> not at all the issue) and I may not be the only one beyond Mike.
>
> As for
>> we could get a lot more done if people didn't try to divide us with
>> first vs third world rhetoric.
>
> I am a peson from the North who now live in the South for some 25
> years, and I disagree
> with your statement. When focusing ICT4D and probably also Internet
> governance they are
> many issues which are not treated the same way in the South as in the
> North (if only a question
> of very different priority scheme). There is a South sensitivity and
> this is not a question of
> dividing the community but rather acknowledging the existence of a
> different perspective driven by
> quite different contexts.
>
> Some people like Suresh leave in the South and are reluctant to
> acknowledge that difference of perspective;
> this is their perfect right; however I do not think they have the
> right to impose their view to the rest of us
> (who probably are the majority in that very case).
>
> Cordialmente,
> Daniel 
>

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