On 04/30/2008 10:40:47 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le mercredi 30 avril 2008 à 14:57 -0500, Callum Lerwick a écrit :
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 09:52 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > I, for one was glad when those (and previous redneck jokes) were
> > kicked out of the installer. The text and imagery used were just
too
> > US-centric to be comfortable, and got old fast.
>
> It's a two way street.
>
> Yes, it's cool to hate America these days. I'm no fan of our current
> foreign policy myself. But it is still rather insulting in many
circles
> that you paint all Americans as being rednecks like you just did.
Since you seem not to have gotten the reference, one of the ancient
Red
Hat releases bragged about Redneck support in its image/text install
train. I can tell you this had a terrible effect on people that were
installing for another locale and found out half the needed pieces for
this locale were missing (but that's ok, Redneck is in, who actually
needs more than English+Redneck).
And who's to blame? English-speaking people?
So get a grip. Everyone is not seing the world through and American
eye.
American junk food industry imagery is not a positive image
everywhere.
American cultural references and priorities are not shared by most of
the world.
Nicolas: I suggest you recent review your posts to fedora-devel-list to
realise how large percentage of them circle about your feelings towards
USA. It is boring at best. Let's stick to technical discussions here
and leave politics, religion, sex and rock&roll out (have I forget any
item from the list?).
For the record, I found the "redneck" language option useless but it
was a nice demo of the localisation functionality (was it not the first
localized linux installer ever?). And I thought it was bit funny, too.
Pawel
PS. I think it's time to either close this thread or make it focused
better on the installation itself.
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