Everyone please remember Geany is an international project and remember not to 
assume your cultural biases automatically apply to content produced in an 
international forum, not necessarily by people with English as a first 
language, and not necessarily the same cultural reaction to particular words or 
concepts (pro or anti).

It is perfectly ok to note that something has negative connotations in  _your_ 
culture and you would prefer that it wasn't used, but it is not acceptable to 
assume that your culture is universal throughout the world, and that content 
produced elsewhere is automatically to be interpreted by your standards.

In particular please do not state your standards as if they are an indisputable 
fact and that anything not meeting them is therefore the result of poor 
practices.

When dealing with a project staffed by volunteers working in their own time the 
best way of changing something is to contribute alternative content, not to try 
to force someone to spend their own time and effort to change something that is 
acceptable to them so it will meet your cultural expectations.

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