hello to all,
this is my first time to send a message to the list although i've been a member
for a quite awhile. my name is miho iwakuma. i'm a ph.d. student at the
university of Oklahoma studying communication. currently i'm writing my
research proposal, and have faced crucial disability issues, which i put aside
consciously waiting for a right moment to come, concerning the disability
culture.
well, my question is this: recently, a popular notion goes to state that
everyone has (some kind of) disability, no one is 100%-ablebodied, or
disabledness is not a discrete category, but a deference in degree, which each
makes sense to me. at the same time, however, i agree with the statement that a
group of pwds has the disability culture due to their unique shared
experiences. but aren't they contradictory? mutually exclusive? in other words,
if everyone is (partially) a person with a disability, where is a boundary of
the disability culture? culture, by definition, connotes conformity and
solidarity among people, and in return, exclusiveness of outgroups. culture
cannot include every person.
does anyone see a problem i'm struggling with here? any comments/insights will
be appreciated. thanks
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