Hehe mercy! I wrote "Europ" as a kind of typo (I guess I didn't press the "E" as strong as I should have). I read about that continent before, I swear I know how to write it correctly
I promise to re-read my posts before sending them. When I saw the mistake I made some minutes had already passed, so the "edit" option was not there anymore. Because of that now I look like an analphabet.
About the nationality thing, to make sure we are sinchronized I would like to say some words about it. I will talk about what I personally meant by what I wrote.
I meant by what I wrote (in my non native English language words, sorry about that) that, in the US and in certain parts of Europe, people are much more careful with this kind of comments. People are more sensitive to things like that, discrimination, machism, etc. They have a different concept about personal space compared to the way people from latin societies handle it. Whithin personal space I include phisical distance as well as social codes. For example, here guys kiss each other hi and goodbye, sometimes you do that even with people you are just meeting for the first time. Would you do that in the US? No way. Same thing with other stuff you can say here and you can't say there. We are just different, we grew up in different environments so we have different codes. That's a fact.
In Argentina, a sentence like that can sound funny and the one who says that may have no other hidden intentions. In some countries after a sentence like that one woman can get offended for being taken as an object. No matter what was the intention of the person who wrote it or how hard they try to explain that they didn't mean to offend anybody they could really get into trouble. I already heard many stories about that.
Something I learnt after hanging out with people from everywhere for a long time was to keep in mind that we all come from different cultures with different codes, so I always (try to) behave politically correct to prevent someone from feeling uncomfortable. I just thought that someone here in the forum could have felt a bit annoyed by that sentence and I was surprised because I didn't expect in an international forum like this to read something like that. That's it. I didn't mean to play here any role of power of any kind. Each of us are free to do and say whatever they want. See that I didn't say "don't do that again". I just pointed out what I thought about it. I am not a moderator and I am not interested on that role in any way!
I also didn't say at all that a sentence like that can come only from someone not from the US or Europe. I don't even know where the person who wrote it is from, and I don't care honestly. I don't like to assign stereotypes to anyone and I don't even have the authority to do so and it is also totally against my personal code of conduct.
Said that, I go to bed fellows. I am here just to try to make possitive contributions to the community. Nothing else. To enjoy, to be friendly, to interact in the best way I can. And I will be really happy if I can accomplish that. I am here to enjoy and not to have arguments with anyone. You are able to tell that in the way I write. Remember that written text lacks of body language and voice intonation, so let's try to think well and we will all be happier!
Peace. Good night.
