Wyrmlord
Arcane
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As a cosmopolitan forum, we are host to Russians, Poles, Ukrainians, Swedes, Finns, Germans, Italians, French, Dutch, Belgians, Baltics, Brazillians, and even Kazhaks.
To be a part of La Monde Anglo-Americaine on RPG Codex is actually an exception rather than a rule.
So I have noticed moderators get displeased when these ethnics speak in their mother tongue to innumerable other ethnics. If this were an Australo-Anglo-Americano-Canadian dominated forum, I can understand. But it is so commonplace to be an ethnic on the Codex, that when these people drop their guard and speak to other ethnics in the language comfortable to them, they are told to snap out of it. The ethnics are not blocking the majority out of the discussion. The ethnics ARE the majority.
How can we be the cosmopolitan forum that we are supposed to be, if a basic expression of culture such as language, is to be restrained and controlled? It is utterly incongruous to be cosmopolitan in the sense that all across the world are invited, but un-cosmopolitan in that they all have to follow the same cultural standard.
Right? RIGHT?
To be a part of La Monde Anglo-Americaine on RPG Codex is actually an exception rather than a rule.
So I have noticed moderators get displeased when these ethnics speak in their mother tongue to innumerable other ethnics. If this were an Australo-Anglo-Americano-Canadian dominated forum, I can understand. But it is so commonplace to be an ethnic on the Codex, that when these people drop their guard and speak to other ethnics in the language comfortable to them, they are told to snap out of it. The ethnics are not blocking the majority out of the discussion. The ethnics ARE the majority.
How can we be the cosmopolitan forum that we are supposed to be, if a basic expression of culture such as language, is to be restrained and controlled? It is utterly incongruous to be cosmopolitan in the sense that all across the world are invited, but un-cosmopolitan in that they all have to follow the same cultural standard.
Right? RIGHT?