People need to get over themselves; as in, being watchdogs for political correctness, culturally-based or not. It is a fact, that no amount of cultural relativism can cure, that different cultures possess different general modes of discourse, including economic discourse. Those cultures that are more tribal in their level of civilization tend towards seeing other cultures as "the other", i.e. xenophobic, and categorize their negative treatment of them as more accepteable because they are not part of their group. Groups of minds do this and it is a fact. This does not mean that an individual can not transcend his group's norms of discourse - western norms or arabic norms, or any others - but respecting individuals does not necessarily negate a general observation on the norms of a given culture.
There was nothing in gleno's post that should lead anyone to believe that his motivation was to denigrate a particular culture. Those that feel the need to warn others' in such circumstances should ask themselves whether their warning has more to do with their idea of themselves -being always the one who is culturally sentitive - than the merits of any actual warning.
There was nothing in gleno's post that should lead anyone to believe that his motivation was to denigrate a particular culture. Those that feel the need to warn others' in such circumstances should ask themselves whether their warning has more to do with their idea of themselves -being always the one who is culturally sentitive - than the merits of any actual warning.