[UA-discuss] Cultural Acceptance

[Mark Svancarek (CELA)]

… and if the community won’t let us forget it, they may possibly push the issue in ways that I find strange, complicated and foreign.  I’ll try to be more open to that.

From: UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org> On Behalf Of Ram Mohan
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 1:47 PM
To: Roberto Gaetano <roberto_gaetano at hotmail.com>
Cc: Universal Acceptance <UA-discuss at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Cultural Acceptance

In general agreement.

And even if we agree to forget about the problem, the communities in need are unlikely to allow it to be forgotten for long.

Ram

On Tue, May 14, 2019, 1:44 PM Roberto Gaetano <roberto_gaetano at hotmail.com<mailto:roberto_gaetano at hotmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all.
I am under the impression that we need to address one issue that is a subset of the overarching Universal Acceptance, and that is related to cultural differences.
In simple words, we need to accept the fact that in different parts of the world people have different way of thinking and different priorities, and sometimes what seems logical, easy and familiar to some is strange, complicated and foreign to others.
I have spent decades in software development and have often witnessed discussions on the lines of “Why can’t you use the tool in the way it has been designed?” vs “Why can’t you design the tool in the way we want to use it?”.
The question I have is whether we accept the fact that some languages and scripts have features that require a different approach - and probably a more complicated solution to provide users that belong to that particular culture with a fully satisfactory user experience - and include these related issues in our to-do list.
There is then a completely separate question that is “Do we have the resources to do it?”. And the follow-up question “Who does it?”.
While I can understand that we might not implement solutions in the near future, I have difficulties in accepting to forget about the problem altogether.
Cheers,
Roberto
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