[governance] Nomination of Parminder

[McTim]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Daniel Pimienta <pimienta at funredes.org> wrote:
> This is getting quite personal now... Dont you think it is too much so?
> From Deirdre's report I get that neither Suresh nor Mc Tim were present in
> that event,
> so why are they reporting about it?

Speaking for myself, I am not "reporting" merely reminding folk that
it is an unresolved issue for the IGC.

>
> When I read:
>
>> He was then physically aggressive/threatening towards me (no contact, but
>> i felt physically threatened).
>
> 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.
>
> However.
>
> Just a highly probable hypothesis to try to put some calming to this
> personal situation.
> Cultures does matters. Difference of cultures makes a lot of ...difference.

Does your hypothesis explain why folks from other parts of the world
were so uncomfortable they also left?


>
> I spent 2 years in assignment in the US back in 1984 (in the deep South),
> coming from my mediterranean culture.
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>


no, you just have to have a sense of decency.


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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