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Hilarious, a document from 2001 talking about why Unicode is unsuitable to "the orient." At the end, I half expected to read that "Negroes have also proved to
by reality_czech 10y ago
Hilarious, a document from 2001 talking about why Unicode is unsuitable to "the orient." At the end, I half expected to read that "Negroes have also proved to be most unfavorable to it."
- mark_edward 10y agoMaybe a foreign language speaker? The term didn't get the same valences in places that didn't colonize it
- darkengine 10y agoSimply because of his use of an outdated synonym of "Asia"? If anything, I got the impression that the author was critical of Westerners for being insensitive to the needs of Asian computer users. I think this is because of Han Unification, but he does not mention it by name.
- sundarurfriend 10y agoIn this author's case, I agree that the intent doesn't appear to have been malicious. But calling it just "an outdated synonym of Asia" is like saying Negro is just an outdated synonym for Black (after all, negro is just Spanish for black). In both cases, it ignores heavy historical and cultural implications that come with the words.
- hueving 10y agoWhat are the cultural implications of using Orient as a synonym for Asia?