Re: Cultural differences and how to handle them
On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 07:59:35PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+debian-project@zugschlus.de> writes:
> > On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 10:32:04AM -0600, Jason Crain wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 05:40:54PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >> > In this gay pride month discussion what is politically correct for
> >> > people in the US is considered offensive by people in Germany, and
> >> > what would be considered politically correct by Germans would be
> >> > considered offensive by people in the US.
> >>
> >> I have a hard time believing that German culture prevents you (or
> >> Debian) from supporting gay pride,
> >
> > That is not what Adrian tried to say. Don't try turning his words around
> > against him. No German company would change its logo for a pride month,
> > and if they did, other minorities would sue for their own logo month on
> > basis of discrimination.
>
> It is not a company, but the Berlin government (text in german):
>
> https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2019/07/pride-berlin-csd-lesbisch-schwul-stadtfest.html
>
> Caption: "Pride weeks start: Berlin town hall hoist the rainbow flag"
>
> And if I remember correctly, Travis CI, which *is* a german company
> (Rigaer Straße 8, 10247 Berlin, Germany, just in my neighborhood) had a
> gay pride logo last year on their web page.
>
> As I said: this is not an anglo-german cultural conflict.
>
> Best reards
>
> Ole
another case in point from last month(!) and a little more to the South,
where Vienna hosted this year's Europride:
https://www.wienerlinien.at/eportal3/ep/contentView.do/pageTypeId/66526/programId/74577/contentTypeId/1001/channelId/-47186/contentId/4203520
the rainbow flags on trams have been a stable of the weeks leading up to
pride for years:
https://www.vienna.at/2019/05/20190530-Regenbogenf%C3%A4hnchen-1-1-4-3-330933700-933x700.jpg
one of the main sponsors this year was REWE group, which everyone from
Austria or Germany is probably familiar with, but as were others like
Coca-Cola, one of the biggest banks in Austria, Siemens and some
public/privatized stuff like unions, state railways, public transport of
Vienna, .. full list here: https://europride2019.at/sponsors-partners/
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