[Sigia-l] International IA

[Noreen Whysel]

This is not really a funny story, but....I suppose it depends on your 
perspective.

PricewaterhouseCoopers' Contact Us form has a field for "Country of Origin." 
  Back when I was managing the page, at least once a month, we would get an 
inquiry from a student in the UK or US noting "India" or some other country 
as "country of origin".  These people were indicating their nation of birth, 
regardless of actual residence, and some complained that their country of 
origin was not included on the dropdown and accused the company of 
discrimination.  (An "Osama" wanted to know why certain Middle Eastern 
countries were not included.  I think we didn't have offices in those areas 
at the time).

It appears that they finally changed it, but I remember months passing after 
I first pointed it out and nothing happening....

Noreen

>From: "Peter Morville" <morville at semanticstudios.com>
>To: <sigia-l at asis.org>
>Subject: [Sigia-l] International IA
>Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:13:30 -0400
>
>I just wrote an article about International IA:
>
>http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000012.php
>
>I'd be very interested to hear more stories about pervasive, serious, or
>funny cases of US centrism, as well as any other examples of
>cross-cultural or cross-language IA blunders.  Cheers!
>
>
>Peter Morville
>President, Semantic Studios
>www.semanticstudios.com
>
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