From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:02:30 GMT
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.