Hi,
I may not be a Thai but my understanding is the foot is offensive not just to
Thais but rest of the Tai-Kedai people also. The Thais are just but one group
within the Tai-Kedai ethnicity although without doubt they are numerically
speaking the largest. Other Tai-Kedai people include the Zhuang, Li, Laotians
(for a complete listing, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_peoples). The
whole sum i.e. potential target market comes up to be about ~105-110 million of
them depending on which estimates you want to believe.
This may sound ludcicrous but I do know of some Thai friends who are from
Bangkok as well as Isaan (i.e. north-eastern Thais who are ethnic Lao) and all
said they would prefer not to use any operating system or DEs with a foot as
its logo.
Rgds,
Shaun - Singaporean Chinese
- Original Message -
From: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:42:45 +0700
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I come from Malaysia. I do understand about the cultural issue regarding
foot in people especially in the South East Asia area.
Currently, from my observation, there is no setback from people in Malaysia
with the usage of foot as GNOME logo. Most of the people that are interested
to use GNOME did not really care about the foot logo, but some do ask
question why foot was chosen as the logo.
Thanks for the information. Actually, I think people who are willing to
accept GNOME can accept its logo. But the problem I've been facing
is about introducing it to people who are totally new. And I'd say,
almost *everyone* I introduce GNOME to asks me the question, with
different levels of reactions. And repeatedly answering the question
over time becomes too much for me. I think I'm more happy to answer
technical or philosophical questions instead.
As for alternative of the foot logo, maybe GNOME team can come up with a
simple G logo, that can be used for community that thinks foot is not nice
to associated with.
The same logo can then be used in the user interface, documentation, or
other material when you are trying to introduce GNOME to them.
Thanks for supporting the alternative logo, and for the suggestion.
Regards,
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