"Jose Rizal" <_@no-spam> wrote in message
news:lURJa.10084$C83.996926@no-spam
> If I refer to you as "this Italian guy who just tried to dismiss an
> important issue with flawed reasoning" instead of "this guy who tried to
> dismiss an important issue with flawed reasoning", do you accept a
> difference in the two statements or not? If not, then you need to have
> a crash course in spotting ethnocentricity when subjected to it.
If I WAS Italian I wouldn't have a problem with it, but then there's your
own assumptions coming to the surface eh?
Cheers
Peter
"Jose Rizal" <_@no-spam> wrote in message news:aMMLa.18548$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.