AUS BICYCLE 18 RE A CLASSIC
From: "Peter Signorini" (petesig@no-spam)
Subject: Re: A Classic
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:07:33 +1000


"Jose Rizal" <_@no-spam> wrote in message news:lURJa.10084$C83.996926@no-spam
> If I refer to you as "this Italian guy who just tried to dismiss an > important issue with flawed reasoning" instead of "this guy who tried to > dismiss an important issue with flawed reasoning", do you accept a > difference in the two statements or not? If not, then you need to have > a crash course in spotting ethnocentricity when subjected to it.

If I WAS Italian I wouldn't have a problem with it, but then there's your own assumptions coming to the surface eh?

Cheers Peter








From: "Rob" (subway13@no-spam)
Subject: Re: A Classic
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:53:47 GMT

"Jose Rizal" <_@no-spam> wrote in message news:aMMLa.18548$C83.1746280@no-spam > Peter Signorini:
>
> >
> > "Jose Rizal" <_@no-spam> wrote in message > > news:lURJa.10084$C83.996926@no-spam > >
> > > If I refer to you as "this Italian guy who just tried to dismiss an > > > important issue with flawed reasoning" instead of "this guy who tried to > > > dismiss an important issue with flawed reasoning", do you accept a > > > difference in the two statements or not? If not, then you need to have > > > a crash course in spotting ethnocentricity when subjected to it.
> >
> > If I WAS Italian I wouldn't have a problem with it, but then there's your > > own assumptions coming to the surface eh?
> >
> > Cheers > > Peter > >
>
> You've missed the point. It doesn't matter if you're Italian or not,
> your name suggests it, and not knowing a whit about you, if I associated > your name to your behaviour, that would be ethnocentric.

I'd always thought Peter was an Asian female.