Right, it's all relative to how individuals look at the world.

For example, this is how the world looks in my eyes.[1]

Russavia

[1] http://bit.ly/1uulRAb

P.S. No guessing where I come from :>



On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Katherine Maher <[email protected]>
wrote:

> "Other" ! That's still okay -- as long as it's not, well, "othering" ;)
>
> (The thing that really nailed this one for me was when I was studying the
> "Middle East" as a teenager and someone made the point to me that, it's the
> "middle of what"? It's only "middle" if you're in the "west" and think of
> Asia as the "far" east. If you're in Japan, the middle east it actually
> more like the middle west, and in South Africa, more like, "generally
> north." Mind = blown. [Further digression -- what's the answer then?
> Nowadays, many scholars use "SWANA" South-West Asia, North Africa, where
> the only polarity is the center of the relevant continents themselves.])
>
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Joe Sutherland <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Fair! I was just looking for a cheap word to make “culture” a bit less…
>> short. ;)
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> On 16 November 2014 at 7:24:30 pm, Katherine Maher ([email protected])
>> wrote:
>>
>> Good points! Also, exotic is in the eye of the beholder -- my love of
>> salted herring is not exotic in Amsterdam, but definitely unusual in
>> Cairo.*
>>
>> *Example purposes only, can't say I've ever cottoned to herring of any
>> sort.
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Joe Sutherland <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Good point - LGTM now.
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>> On 15 November 2014 16:02, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Joe Sutherland <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  On 15 November 2014 03:04, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Michael Guss <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> > Hello everyone,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Here is the proposed social media for "Browsing Wikipedia While
>>>>>> Sailing The
>>>>>> > South Pacific: The Goodall Family's Experience Offline Browsing"
>>>>>> blog post.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Blog post:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-on-board-goodall-family/
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > t: No Wi-Fi? No problem. A family at sea tells us what it's like to
>>>>>> use
>>>>>> > #OfflineWikipedia:
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-on-board-goodall-family/
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> Refining a bit to add some exotism ;) and to include the Kiwix
>>>>>> Twitter handle:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No Wi-Fi? No problem. A family sailing the South Pacific tells us how
>>>>>> they use #OfflineWikipedia:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-on-board-goodall-family/
>>>>>> @KiwixOffline
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > f/g: The Goodall family spends most of their time at sea. Without
>>>>>> Wi-Fi
>>>>>> > access, traveling to foreign lands can be daunting. But with #kiwix
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> > offline Wikipedia software, the family looks up everything from
>>>>>> culture to
>>>>>> > the fish they'd like to eat for dinner.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/14/sailing-south-pacific-with-wikipedia-on-board-goodall-family/
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> Tweaked:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Goodall family spends most of their time at sea. Without Wi-Fi
>>>>>> access, traveling to foreign lands can be daunting. But with #Kiwix,
>>>>>> the offline Wikipedia software, the family looks up everything from
>>>>>> culture to the fish they'd like to eat for dinner.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  This reads quite oddly (possibly because "culture" is a far shorter
>>>>> clause than "fish they'd like to eat for dinner". How's this:
>>>>>
>>>>> The Goodall family spends most of their time at sea. Without Wi-Fi
>>>>> access, traveling to foreign lands can be daunting. But with #Kiwix, the
>>>>> offline Wikipedia software, the family looks up everything from exotic
>>>>> cultures to the fish they'd like for dinner.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Good point about "culture". But I don't really see where the post talks
>>>> about exotic cultures among its examples, so I would modify further:
>>>>
>>>> The Goodall family spends most of their time at sea. Without Wi-Fi
>>>> access, traveling to foreign lands can be daunting. But with #Kiwix, the
>>>> offline Wikipedia software, the family looks up everything from Greek
>>>> mythology to the fish they'd like for dinner.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
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