Re: [Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-04 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 20:34, Fred Bauder wrote: > Leaked cables are primary sources, some of which pose problems because > they may contain non-public personal identifying information. Generally > the information in them becomes available for our purposes after they > have been analyzed by a peer

Re: [Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-04 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:36:10PM +0300, Dan Rosenthal wrote: > > Leaked cables are primary sources, some of which pose problems because > > they may contain non-public personal identifying information. Generally > > the information in them becomes available for our purposes after they > > have be

Re: [Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-04 Thread Dan Rosenthal
> > > > > > We consider WL to be a reliable source? > > > >> [1] http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/01/06BELGRADE41.html > > > > (goes off to read) > > Leaked cables are primary sources, some of which pose problems because > they may contain non-public personal identifying information. Generally > the

Re: [Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-04 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Yeah whatever was the final ruling on that, as to whether wikileaks cables can be cited? Dan Rosenthal On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Kim Bruning wrote: > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:32:59AM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: > > So, to understand the circumstances around building community or > > chap

Re: [Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-04 Thread Fred Bauder
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:32:59AM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: >> So, to understand the circumstances around building community or >> chapter in particular country, I strongly suggest reading relevant >> cables. > > <3 > Lots of work. > >> >> And, BTW, Wikipedia articles could be improved thanks t

Re: [Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-04 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:32:59AM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: > So, to understand the circumstances around building community or > chapter in particular country, I strongly suggest reading relevant > cables. <3 Lots of work. > > And, BTW, Wikipedia articles could be improved thanks to those cabl

[Foundation-l] Learning about cultural diversity from US diplomacy

2011-09-03 Thread Milos Rancic
Contrary to the widespread meme that Americans are ignorant, [some of the] US diplomatic cables are precious material for studying cultural diversity. Building global movement requires reading documents about societies, like this one [1] is. Analysis is fully accurate, although 7 years old and som