Well put Klas, in closing, I could not have put that any better if I tried
:)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Klas Strandberg
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:41 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Mic Terminology
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> This is easy to say, as it comes from my heart:
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> If anyone of Japanese ethnics were offended by my use of a word, I deeply
> apologize. It was not my intention.
> I was NOT referring to an ethnic group, nor to a people, only to "a habit
> within Japanese industry" - to present inherent noise in a specific way
> which I don't like. I guess that my criticism of this particular measurin=
g
> method "spilled over" to the whole sentence and placed "Japs" in a
> negative
> context..
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> Here in my part of the world we have no history of Pearl Harbour, nor hav=
e
> we had infected debates like "Japs are taking over California." Negative
> connotations which may be present among people of my age, were presented
> to
> us by Hollywood post-war productions, it which all Japanese were describe=
d
> as more evil than evil.
> The relationship between "us" and Japan and it's people is so neutral tha=
t
> I still have difficulties relating to Japanese as an "ethnic group".
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> May I end this debate with a question for everybody to consider in
> silence??
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> What will happen in the world when every group is ethnically
> protected.....
> except white males in the USA??
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> Klas.
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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