hello to everyone from oklahoma
M.G.Peckitt wrote:
> Does culture mrean solidarity among people? If there is a disability
> culture, and I'm not sure if there is everyone in it may, and I stress
> the may be united by the fact theat they are all impaired and have
> suffered from some form of social exclusion.
i already covered this. my standpoint is that culture is a sum of people's
identifications, consciousness, and/or attachments to a group, rather than mere
physical conditions.
> But for me, that's where
> it ends. Nor would I personally totally exclude members of other groups
> from my particular culture, If I did exclude them how would
> misperceptions about myself as disabled get corrected. I know I
> experience part of the 'able-bodied culture' just by interacting with
> those who are not-disabled-like-me. Without knowledge through
> experience other groups can remain totally ignorant of disability is.
> Granted they may never be able fully experience the 'disability
> culture' because they are not disabled, but they can experience part of
> it. And that is one way, that understandings between culturtes can
> come into being.
>
i see your point. let me clarify a bit fist. what i meant is that without the
ablebodied culture, there is no disability culture either because, i think, the
disability culture is a counter-culture of (or a mirror reflection of) the
able-bodied culture. they are different, but co-dependent. for example, the notion of
the japanese culture already assumes the existence of the non-japanese culture
because if every single person on the planet is japanese, there wouldn't be the term,
the japanese culture or even japanese. 'exclusiveness' i used does not mean neither
discrimination nor psychological distance, but rather, it implies "otherness" or
outgroups.
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