I understand "horrible" in this case in a somewhat lighthearted sense. But it points to a tendency to simplify cultural complexity in the interest of "legibilit

I understand "horrible" in this case in a somewhat lighthearted sense. But it points to a tendency to simplify cultural complexity in the interest of "legibility" from the system perspective. The same diversity of cases need to be accommodated in much design done for, say, a diverse country like India where though urban populace me be English savvy, rural populace aren't necessarily so ... And even in urban areas local language and culture dominates. A place this diversity crops up most commonly is the so called "standard" firstname middlename lastname fields. This just doesn't work in India where people may have even 7 components to their names ... and who are you, dear system developer, to dictate what their name should be like. The name structure diversity I understand is a problem for Europe too with hyphenated names. This brilliant sketch by Fry and Laurie says it all - https://youtu.be/1LopIroSjsU https://youtu.be/1LopIroSjsU