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IMO this is a very American outlook that is now being forced onto the rest of the world. There are multiple situations where developers would use a word, and be

IMO this is a very American outlook that is now being forced onto the rest of the world. There are multiple situations where developers would use a word, and be trampled by American developers for the choice of words.

adar 5y ago
Is there a non-North American context for the word "Hiawatha"?
- School-Cotton 5y ago
  “American outlook” here means the outlook of mainstream US culture, not some shared context of everyone who has ever inhabited the land. So the “American” (really, U.S. American) cultural context is in fact not related to Hiawatha at all. Hiawatha didn’t know what “America” was and presumably wouldn’t have conceptualized himself as being part of a pan-“Native American” identity. Assuming you could even explain the concept of a web server to a pre-industrial person, it’s impossible to know how he himself would have felt about this.
- dmitriid 5y ago
  Does it matter to anyone but "outraged" North Americans? I'd love to have input from people who are Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayugaa, or Seneca. BTW, I decided to take a look at Apache Incubator's projects to see if there's any outrage over (non-exhaustive list): - Kafka (Bohemian Jewish writer) - Chukwa (a dialect of Kulung language of Nepal) - Geronimo (Apache leader) - Hama (a city in Syria) - Apollo, Hermes, Aurora, Aries, Isis (multiple Greek, Roman, and Egyptian gods) - Joshua (Hebrew name) - Kylin (name of a mythical creature from East Asian legends) - Omid (Persian name) - Onami (Japanese destroyers) - Pig (insensitive to Muslims) - Trinidad, and, you guessed it, Tobago (also many other geographical names) ...
Vinnl 5y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but I'd like to ask people for more restraint in using the word "forced". People sometimes say they don't like others doing something, but that's still very far removed from forcing those others not to do something.

adar 5y ago

Is there a non-North American context for the word "Hiawatha"?

School-Cotton 5y ago
“American outlook” here means the outlook of mainstream US culture, not some shared context of everyone who has ever inhabited the land. So the “American” (really, U.S. American) cultural context is in fact not related to Hiawatha at all. Hiawatha didn’t know what “America” was and presumably wouldn’t have conceptualized himself as being part of a pan-“Native American” identity. Assuming you could even explain the concept of a web server to a pre-industrial person, it’s impossible to know how he himself would have felt about this.
dmitriid 5y ago
Does it matter to anyone but "outraged" North Americans? I'd love to have input from people who are Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayugaa, or Seneca. BTW, I decided to take a look at Apache Incubator's projects to see if there's any outrage over (non-exhaustive list): - Kafka (Bohemian Jewish writer) - Chukwa (a dialect of Kulung language of Nepal) - Geronimo (Apache leader) - Hama (a city in Syria) - Apollo, Hermes, Aurora, Aries, Isis (multiple Greek, Roman, and Egyptian gods) - Joshua (Hebrew name) - Kylin (name of a mythical creature from East Asian legends) - Omid (Persian name) - Onami (Japanese destroyers) - Pig (insensitive to Muslims) - Trinidad, and, you guessed it, Tobago (also many other geographical names) ...

Vinnl 5y ago

Somewhat unrelated, but I'd like to ask people for more restraint in using the word "forced". People sometimes say they don't like others doing something, but that's still very far removed from forcing those others not to do something.