I am not sure which I find more interesting; the concerns over the cultural (in)tolerance that Ernie raised in his post about the Mister Wong social bookmark site (with the subtitle complete in English), or the fact that the limited English pages begin with "Welcome, Dude!" It is certainly more engaging (i.e., memorable) than del.icio.us.
With these said, I wonder what target audience they have in mind? Better yet, since almost any depiction of anybody else can be perceived by somebody or another as being insensitive, where does that leave us? Perhaps this is why so many new car models have numbers and letters as their names instead of words? Does using a depiction of an Asian (or Hispanic, African-American, Gay, Republican, Woman, Handicapped individual, etc.) automatically mean something is intolerant? Can only members from that group talk about that group?

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