RE: [ossig] Microsoft and Linuxworld Malaysia 2003

[UWE HEINZ RUDI DIPPEL <Udippel@uniten.edu.my>]

Guys & Gals,

I do know that I'm following on a horribly off-topic route here. Though this
will be the last from my side in here.
Since you asked for it:
In German we do have a word for race: Rasse. And the Nazi propaganda has
used and exploited this extensively. Everything went along racial lines and
this used to be applied continuously, about the races of lower and higher
values, blabla.
Interestingly enough, it had never been said: Eine Rasse, ein Reich, ein
Führer. Or not so interesting ...
The word 'Volk' can as well be used for a group of people, like those at a
convention, a market, etc. It has a destinctive derogatory taste in this
context that it doesn't have at all when you talk about Volk as citizens. So
Christopher is right when he says that somehow it is *very* funny: when you
have it on a group of users, it can somehow belittle this group:
Looking at M$-users and expressing :"Das ist ein Volk" implies quite a
disrespect. In this context it turns from racism into poking fun at those
people belonging to the group, their OS and their leader.

End of OT for me here,

Uwe


-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher DeMarco
To: ossig@mncc.com.my
Sent: 4/21/03 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [ossig] Microsoft and Linuxworld Malaysia 2003

Imran William Smith <iwsmith@mimos.my> writes:

> I think so.  Or possibly, 1 people, 1 country,
> 1 OS.

It's  closer to  "one race",  in  the ultra-nationalist  sense that  the
German  people/race were  somehow rising  up in  righteous  AND destined
glory  against  the  repression  of  the economic  sanctions  after  the
humiliating defeat  in WWI.   That was the  Nazi line,  re-awakening the
industrial economy in defiance  of postwar restrictions and re-awakening
the national pride - unfortunately  fanning the flames of bitterness and
resentment in the process.

It's a damn funny slogan, but frightening and a -tiny- bit inappropriate
at the same time.  Like all good humor.

-- 
% You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
  Christopher DeMarco
  cdemarco@fastmail.fm
  +6013 389 5658

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