I am pretty sure that if you ask anyone in the world to give you one cliché about the Germans, there's a pretty good chance that "The Germans are always on time" or "The Germans are very organized" will come up more than once. In any case, that's what French people would say. And […]
November 2007 (5)
Thursday, November 29 2007
Put your money where your mind is, not where we tell you to
Thursday, November 29 2007. wiki world
Dear potential donor, small or big, individual or corporate, I am hoping that through this long post (I promise, I tried to trim it down) I can make light on one of the intriguing (at least to me) aspects of this fundraiser and tackle the purpose of this blog, i.e. “why give?”. I was wondering if […]
Tuesday, November 20 2007
Holy shit! The Church got me.
Tuesday, November 20 2007. somewhere else
Or where cultural differences have legal roots. This afternoon, my accountant calls me to tell me that the tax office has finally finished reviewing my tax declaration. And then she asks me this very personal (at least in my books) question: "Are you a catholic?". Now. The reality is, I've […]
Monday, November 19 2007
The bilingual challenge
Monday, November 19 2007. communication(s)
I have written about the interesting differences in cultural perception of the same objects, or rather of the same words. I have always been fascinated by the easiness with which I navigate from one language to another, namely French and English. And I am equally fascinated by the difficulty I have […]
Friday, November 16 2007
About "Ceci n'est pas une endive"
Friday, November 16 2007. on my way
This blog has been turning in my head for quite a long time, actually ever since I gave a presentation at Wikimania last year in Taipei, about cultural differences. The name is a funky one, but has a real history. First, why an endive? Well, even though I did not really participate in it, the […]
