Mr. 小葉先生,
You have great track record here and I can see that, without a doubt, you're a very decent person.
I did read the entire thread. Unfortunately I was judging it by using a different standard. That's my fault.
I've lived in the US for almost 30 years and I understand what you mean by "you could say something straightfoward and to the point WITHOUT fears". There are certain limitations on such comment and I think you realize that.
I fully understand that you absolutely meant no harm when saying that but in the western world, if such happens in company email, for example, that means troubles, regardless what your original intend is. Most companies here spend lots of time and money to educate people what not to say during work(yes this thread has nothing to do with work). This is done with good reasons. All one has to do is to remove the word "elder" and leave everything there. Good lord, that sounds like I'm living in a communist country. Obviously the culture here is a little different.
Most of the readers here probably think that I'm super overly sensitive on reacting to this thread. Well, I can tell you that I was not going to post anything but I thought it may be a good opportunity to exchange some ideas in a different perspective. If you have the experience on posting comments in a foreign forum, it is always a good practice not to do so since readers may judge you differently. But again, here is different obviously.
in US, we have to be very careful when joking about race, sex, religion, age......etc. Make sure it is only during very private conversation. Even that, there were a few politicians lost their campaign because someone revealed some private conversation recording. I've learned some hard lessons here when I was younger. It is perfectly ok to be a member of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) if you don't care how people think about you. I'm not sure most of the readers here understand that. If you have the chance conducting international business, this could be something to remember. I've seen people lost their business opportunity just by making fun with their potential clients on such topic.
外國人的想法有些不容易讓我們理解小弟已養成不用類似的字您可稱為是被洗腦了吧
寫這些看起來有點偏激,但一旦被大多數人冠上那頂帽子,對事業交友等影響很大.不錯您是有絕對自由這樣說,小弟只是覺得網路全世界都看的到
有時會讓外人誤會我們對弱勢或某種族不友善
I just want to remind readers that there are significant differences between the east and west on such subject and I do apologize for wasting your and other readers' time since this is way off the topic.
Now let's talk about stamps.
[ 此帖被ming8686在2015-03-14 22:46重新編輯 ]
