You argued that a North American bias, or differences between American culture and that of Europe and elsewhere, might be part of the problem in why the VE is getting a backlash on projects for European languages.
I'll take on faith that anti-Americanism doesn't explain why you jump to this conclusion when there are many that make more sense, but how do you explain then the fact that the English Wikipedia (which, presumably, has a similar North American bias) is having a very similar reaction as the Dutch? I just think this resort to "it must be cultural differences between Americans and those of us from the Continent" is an intellectual cop out, a way of blaming without finding actual root causes or contributing to a constructive solution. Systemic biases do exist, and culture clashes do occur, but we should not jump to them as an explanation without exploring other factors. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>