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> presumably in a well-intentioned attempt to package this in a way the Western mind can comprehend Did you intend for that to come across as condescending?
by HumanDrivenDev 9y ago
> presumably in a well-intentioned attempt to package this in a way the Western mind can comprehend
Did you intend for that to come across as condescending?
- nkoren 9y agoYou mean to the Western mind? I've got one, so yeah I feel somewhat at liberty to make mildly self-depreciating jokes about it. Sort of the way that Woody Allen is allowed to make good-natured fun of pedophiles. Egads, that's terrible company to keep. Moving on now...
- huebnerob 9y agoThere's nothing condescending about stating that there are some world views that may be beyond our immediate rapid comprehension. I have a 'western mind' and I was not offended.
- endgame 9y agoI don't know if GP did, but I did not read it as such.
- paganel 9y ago> but I did not read it as such. The same here (granted, I'm not a "true" Westerner, as I live in Eastern Europe, but that's also West of India). Adding to the conversation, I have the same issue of trying to comprehend the linguistic craziness that the Caucasus area represents. I mean, as a language buff I'm always amazed whenever I look at this language-map of the area (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Caucasus-ethnic_en.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Caucasus...) and at the language families included in there.