[Foundation-l] Cultural awareness and sensitivity

Delphine Ménard notafishz at gmail.com
Sun Jun 20 11:58:30 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
>
>>> reaction to what to me was actually a rather funny comment. However,
>>> Mariano's following reaction as well as Yaroslav's came across to me
>>> as unecessarily aggressive and actually shocked me in what I perceived
>>> as a lack of consideration and altogether rather nasty answers.
>>> Strange.
>>
>> It was very strange for me to read that Yaroslav (while I know only
>> one Yaroslav here on the list - it's Yaroslav Blanter) was... OMG...
>> "unecessarily aggressive".
>> Moreover I was 'actually shocked' as to my experience Yaroslav is not
>> too kind or better to say warm in tone sometimes (!), but I never saw
>> him "unecessarily aggressive". So I spent some slice of night (it's
>> 3:30AM here in Kyiv now) to run some investigation.
>> As to the best of my understanding (and if I'm not mistaken) that was
>> another person (should I point exactly?) which has not much in common
>> with Yaroslav: he is from Russia as well and he is admin in ru:WP
>> also.
>>
>
> Thanks Pavlo. Actually I do not think I posted anything in this thread at
> all, and I overlooked Delphinbe's post as well. This must be a
> misunderstanding somehow.

Sorry for taking so long to answer this and offer my apologies. It was
Victor's post which shocked me, not Yaroslav. So much for writing late
at night. And thank you Pavlo for pointing my mistake out.

Best,

Delphine

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