[Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-04 Thread Milos Rancic
Contrary to the widespread meme that Americans are ignorant, [some of the] US diplomatic cables are precious material for studying cultural diversity. Building global movement requires reading documents about societies, like this one [1] is. Analysis is fully accurate, although 7 years old and

Re: [Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-04 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:32:59AM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: So, to understand the circumstances around building community or chapter in particular country, I strongly suggest reading relevant cables. 3 Lots of work. And, BTW, Wikipedia articles could be improved thanks to those cables.

Re: [Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-04 Thread Fred Bauder
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:32:59AM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: So, to understand the circumstances around building community or chapter in particular country, I strongly suggest reading relevant cables. 3 Lots of work. And, BTW, Wikipedia articles could be improved thanks to those cables.

Re: [Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-04 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Yeah whatever was the final ruling on that, as to whether wikileaks cables can be cited? Dan Rosenthal On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:32:59AM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: So, to understand the circumstances around building

Re: [Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-04 Thread Dan Rosenthal
We consider WL to be a reliable source? [1] http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/01/06BELGRADE41.html (goes off to read) Leaked cables are primary sources, some of which pose problems because they may contain non-public personal identifying information. Generally the information in

Re: [Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-04 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:36:10PM +0300, Dan Rosenthal wrote: Leaked cables are primary sources, some of which pose problems because they may contain non-public personal identifying information. Generally the information in them becomes available for our purposes after they have been

Re: [Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-04 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 20:34, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Leaked cables are primary sources, some of which pose problems because they may contain non-public personal identifying information. Generally the information in them becomes available for our purposes after they have been