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I think “realness” is what’s required in online communications, just realness according to protocol. One cannot be rude. One cannot be uncouth. One should be tonally perfect when it comes to communicating online but don’t let that stop you — making mistakes (and copping to them, acknowledging them, and accepting them) is normal. But “normalspeak” is essential. Online chat and conversation is not, no matter what anyone tries to sell you, is not formal written communication. It shouldn’t be. It cannot be. Being stiff and inaccessible is almost worst than being tone-deaf.
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Well, desirability breeds solution: JPOP have single-handedly driven many a Gaijin to learn Kanji, Kana, Hiragana, and Katakana in order to bridge the divide. And people want to — and not only because Japanese is awesome and has a right tradition and cool pop music. I grew up in Hawaii and know the Japanese culture very well, though only once-removed. Most of my relationships with the Japanese culture and with Japanese people were 1st and 2nd generation. That’s another issue: how close are you, really? I am pretty darn close to understanding the Japanese culture but I know nothing about culture in Japan. And the question is: how far down the rabbit hole does one go before one initiates a social media campaign?
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s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large16 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?You can spread your work and/or content over multiple platforms, languages, cultures, etc, but you’re going to need to customize it in the way your target market expects. Case-in-point: I saw WALL-E in a Berlin Cinema in Germany. The movie was made in “Hollywood,” right? Well, remember in WALL-E how many brands and billboards and all of that — all the signage — that was in the scenery of the movie? Well, Disney created a German-only or German-speaking-country-only version resplendent with German-language branding as well as all supporting aspects custom-tailored to German children, including a very close dub — not a heavy-handed dub… it might have even been mouthed to the German words. It was the first time I have seen this sort of customization. Germans HATE subtitles so there are a lot of very terrible dub-jobs going on on TV and the cinema and this wasn’t that.
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s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large7 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?Mind you, at the end of the day, America has gotten used to Indian outsources tech support — because Indians tend to be even more charming, thoughtful, patient and kind than the teams they run into here… do we adapted after 10-years. But, if you can’t wait around long enough to change an entire cultural norm, don’t.
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s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large8 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?I love that second story. Yes, my buddy from central PA calls it a “slice” or a “cheese slice” — the basic slice is a cheese slice to him. It took me forever to adopt it, though people understood also when I said, “I would like one slide of the cheese pizza please, for here.” I didn’t know the short code, but like when you listen to your dad try to use current slang (and how bad that sounds) sometimes it’s not good to use slang if you’re not from the slang. If it’s not your slang by birthright. Or, worse yet, if your slang is last-season’s slang.
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s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large9 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?I am so sorry if I made all of this sound treacherous — it is beautiful more than treacherous; and, if you go in with a good heart and not like a carpet-bomber, you’ll be embraced, especially if you can convey what you’re doing there, why you’re there, what you bring (a good gift is always nice) and what you what in return.
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s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large10 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?Yes, indeed, Daniel: I didn’t even address self-selective cliques, tribes, families, etc. I was just speaking to the real one (where they were brought up) and the one shared in the Internet. I am not even talking about meta-tribes. What of people who have families that move around a lot. Army brats, diplobrats? Sharcroppers? Etc? What about people who are in recovery and their tribe is AA, NA, OA, SLAA? There are so many. I ride a motorcycle: is that my new identity and tribe? How much do we get to chose and how much is projected onto us?
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s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large11 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?Well, yes, you’re right, it is a big playground — but even a playground has “right” and “wrong” and has a moral code and has things you should and shouldn’t do. One can offend, hurt, and damage another, even in a playground. In fact, the playground is probably one of our first experience of cause-and-effect. That the way you behave with your sweet parents doesn’t play when you’re interacting with people with different parents, different upbringings, different faiths and origins and colors and origin stories — ethnicity, wealth, education, etc. So, even a playground isn’t a playground unless you’re there along; otherwise, you need to interact with very many other people.
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s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large12 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?Thank you, Minna. And thanks for sharing this post with your students. Also, as new people enter, based on age (coming of age, being new) or on access (discovering online for the first time, even when older, by vaulting the digital divide or retiring or whatnot), we’re going to have to educate and re-educate people again and again like the 2000 movie “Memento” — though in this case, it isn’t one man, it’s the entire Internet. The Internet is stateless. It doesn’t possess a unified memory. There are newbies coming along every single nanosecond. And we “oldies” need to be patient, loving, kind, and willing to enculturate to the best of our abilities. I love your students!
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s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large13 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?When it comes to the textuality of the Internet, message rules and the “text” of the message doesn’t need to be limited to ASCII: animated GIFs, infogtraphics, videos, photos, etc — just as valid and way more accessible to people who don’t speak your native tongue.
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