Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A 15:16 10/01/99 +0100, vous avez écrit : >Please allow an off-topic. > >"Politically correct" is a very interesting notion. Some critics are now trying to ENLIGHTEN people about it in Japan. This does not mean Japanese people have no notions like this. In many countries (and cultures) it seems to be merely a part of COMMON SENSE. For example, I and my family live in Alsace (central Europe) as strangers and very comfortably. I do not think the people here try to be "politically correct" to us. They are just friendly and kind. I would assume the situations are differnet in the US. The phrase "politically correct" sounds strange to me (English is a foreign language to me). Are there things that are politically correct but otherwise incorrect or vice versa? Could you (American citizens) please enlighten me? I understand that one can abuse it to infringe "freedom of speech" of others. However, no one can resist that sensible reservation or self-control should accompany every freedom in a community. This may apply particularly to internet forums where posts (in some cases, soliloquies?) can be more offensive than intended and where people with different cultural backgrounds join together. $0.02 ;-) > >Mikiro Mori >Strasbourg, Alsace #################### Hi Mikiro, Political correctness exists in France.For instance the Gayssot law forbids somebody to deny holocaust. We have in France some crazy professors (Faurisson is the most notorious) who have published trashy papers and shitty books on that "topic".Before the law they were betting on a sure thing : at first, deny the holocaust ; then, wait for horror reactions and, at last, exclaim against injustice in behalf of free speech. Dominique Pellissier P.S. : Alsace is not in central Europe but in France and France is in West Europe. Hungary is in central Europe and Russia in East Europe.