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- From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:02:30 GMT
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- goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
-
- >This isn't mean to be a gripe, incidentally. I just want to point out
- >our great cultural isolation, and note that, with this kind of disad-
- >vantage, can we realistically expect to design systems for the world as
- >a whole?
-
- As someone already pointed out, I think you have a skewed image of
- "our great cultural isolation". Here, is Silicon Valley, you have
- lots of software engineers from various countries and a fantastic
- cultural mixture. On the floor where I work I could probably count
- people from 8-10 different countries speaking 25-30 languages fluently
- (with Asian and Indian languages being represented quite prominently).
- What cultural isolation are you talking about? Chicago? Then don't
- apply it to software industry.
-
- t.
-