Thread: Inappropriate comments

Originally Posted by welshwizard

What many of us often forget is that besides speaking different languages, there are also major cultural differences. What may be deemed acceptable behaviour in one part of the world would definitely not be in another. When all is said and done it is the World Wide Web. Even in the English speaking world there are wide variations in attitude to what constitutes good manners. In the UK and I am sure the USA also, age and family background has a marked effect.

So how then do you police that? and whose standards are to be used? Would it not, possibly be, offensive to tell someone that what they say could be deemed by some to be offensive, when in fact, what was said was not meant to be taken that way? And if the standards of the one policing the 'standards' finds something acceptable that others from different cultures do not, what then? I'm not trying to be a bast...a pric...a pain in the ars...a thorn in the side here . I'm genuinely curious and concerned that I may have missed something.


Mick