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Hi everybody, As I told Chris the tenor, I think it is better and more democratic to start a discussion objectively without personal opinion, which can be added later on. In the Catalan and English cultures that I have more interacted we develop discussions in this way. However, I respect Christopher and other views. I am surprised the quietness of many scientists that openly have strongly critisised the Anglo-Saxon culture, magazines and scientists. Well, their time is off now! My opinion is similar to the others, I think that English ought to remain the tool for scientists to communicate for time to come, even when the Chinese will take over as the main power in the world. However, it is up to each culture to use English as just an international communication tool and preserve its own culture. However, scientists should also be allowed to write in other languages. I also think that non-Anglo-Saxon scientists are publishing very good papers, see any papers lately about for example dinosaurs from South America, Iberia, or About Palaeo-herpetology from Germany. More often you see collaborations between anglo-saxons and other scientists and vice versa. Basically, this Anglo-Saxon dominance is just knowing where to draw a line between cultural boundaries and English as a communication tool. Basically, This is a myth! Accidentally, my trouble from IBERPAL has been unnecessarily used by Patricio and Bruno to diminish my integrity as a scientist and person. This fact says everything about them as people and scientists, and it is their problem, not mine. Therefore, I would like to terminate completely with this issue of IBERPAL openly in thes two lists. 1) I have received emails accussing me of certain untruly facts. I do not hate anybody from the list of Iberpal, I do not hate Spanish scientists, I am working and contacting with them constantly. I am not Palaeo-terrorist, Palaeo-integrists, neither a Catalan nationalist, or member of the BNP (British National Party), although I defend both cultures if I need to. I AM JUST A HUMAN BEING! and as such I respect as much I would like to be respected. So, all these private emails you sent me stating all the above silly insults, and that if "you come back to Spain neither you will not get funding or a position" are non-sense, and exposes the thoughts of a minority of the well-respecte scientific Spanish community. In addition, the Iberian Peninsula is a very diverse palce, and there are many people that think pluriculturally, and for example that Bascs, Gallicians, and Catalans are to be considered at the same level as Spaniards culturally, not as a part of the Spanish culture, and multiple derivations from that idea. You do not have to agree, but, respected! I respect when somebody born in Catalonia tells me I am a Spaniard, fantastic where is the problem? 2. Again, in these two international lists I would like to apologize to everybody publicly for my comments in IBERPAL. Indeed, I overreacted in my discussions. Previously, I apologized to the Iberpal moderator Dr. M. Pardo and Dr. Paul.Palmqvist by many letters and emails several times since the incident by email and letters without any reply from them. I invited the first to also include their insulting messages in the list and apologize together. Instead of he sent to everybody my so called "ill-mannered" messages, but not his. The second, I told him that I understood his anti-Catalan and anti-Anglo-Saxon comments in the list, but, please, allow me to disagree. As somebody has said the lists must be fun and not a jewel of a Kingdom to be preciously guarded and preserved from different thinking! 3. Therefore, I leave prove in this lists that I have seeked any possible way to be re-admitted in IBERPAL. However, if I am not welcome to the list because of their reasons, it is not my problem. Finally, I would like to thank the many emails of support received from colleagues all around the globe, very necessary when your integrity is attacked badly. I hope this message clarifies everything and leaves everybody in their place. Respectfully, Xavier Panades I Blas, Ms Please, send letters to: Fuhlrott-Museum / ARCO-Nepal Auer schulstr. 20 D-42103 Wuppertal cogombra@hotmail.com Tel. 0049 202/563 2636/4891 Fax 0049 202/563 8026 Student from: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Fakultät für Geowissenschaften Luisenstrasse 37 Zi. 223/I 80333 München,Germany _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool emoticons http://messenger.msn.co.uk
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