Hi Gleen
I'm sending once again because the other time I sended to your personal box.
Alejandra
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De: Alejandra Poveda <[log in to unmask]>
Para: Glenn Smith <[log in to unmask]>
Fecha: Miércoles 27 de Septiembre de 2000 10:33 AM
Asunto: RE:
>Hi Glenn,
>
>There is a Oriental proveerb thats tells something like this "you came here
>to ask what you allready know".
>
>I guess I dont have much to say about your perceptions, unless I agree with
>them in many ways. But I should say that is the way people see disabled
>people everywhere.
>Of course this is slowly changing and that actually are places where
>disabled people live much better than others.
>
>You said people are not very well tolerated, and appear to be treated very
>much in the role of the medical model. I must add: not only the medical
>model explain this, the factor poverty has to do with it. And it seems to
>me, you in your observations, appeal to emotional behaviour , and that is
>cultural.
>
>I have experienced that even other disabled people from developed countries
>has the ideological notion that disabled from non developed countries has
>nothing to add to the "social construction" of disability.
>
>You ask for studies in this field, I guess there are few, done by etheir
non
>disabled and disabled people (US mainly, searching for "minorities") . One
>of the main troubles I find this, is the language. I can hardly think of
any
>of these researchers, as spanish speakers (what kind of lecture of reality
>could they made?). In the other hand there are some researchers from Spain
>(not all I must agree) that do research in Latin America as they were
>suppoused to finish what Spanish people beging 500 years ago.
>
>Alejandra
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