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Unless you’re a member of the Sherpa ethnic group, you are not any kind of “sherpa”. This is culturally insensitive to the 18 Sherpa clans. Educate yourselves
by jeremiahlee 7y ago
Unless you’re a member of the Sherpa ethnic group, you are not any kind of “sherpa”. This is culturally insensitive to the 18 Sherpa clans.
Educate yourselves and rebrand:
https://qz.com/128842/the-problem-with-calling-your-career-coach-a-sherpa/ https://qz.com/128842/the-problem-with-calling-your-career-c...
https://reclaimingsherpa.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/tweet-examples/ https://reclaimingsherpa.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/tweet-exam...
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago:popcorn: as Americans appropriate anything for a few pennies.
- Wordball 7y agoneither of the co-founders are American
- esseeayen 7y agoAustralian actually, and in this way I think they mean it as "a guide" is that the wrong use of the word?
- jeremiahlee 7y agoYes, it’s problematic. It’s reducing an ethnic group to one job.
- isthisajokehaha 7y agoWhat a useless comment.
- cm2012 7y agoThere are about 5,000 English loan words that have other meanings to other cultures. It's not even slightly realistic to stop using them.
- jeremiahlee 7y agoSherpa was the name for an ethnic group long before English speaking people decided to reduce a culture to a single job.