hi jim,Jim Davis wrote:
> May I ask, where do you stand (or sit) in relation to the subject? Are
> you a person with a disability? And what practical application do you
> have in mind, if any, for the research?
>
although i'm not sure how relevant if i have disability or not in discussing about the disability culture, if you ask, yes, i
have physical disability. what i'm writing is my dissertation proposal with regard to communication with/of pwds. my subjects
are the japanese with disabilities, and i interviewed and observed them. because of my visible disability, my relation to them
was multi-faced. i was a researcher/informer/friend to them, and i was confused which persona i was wearing time to time.
> Discrimination may not be a criteria for membership in a group, but it
> is a common experience of who we call PD's, and stigma.
since i opened the Pandora's box of the disability culture, let me ask a further question to anyone. shapiro (and other
scholars also) said that common experiences of descrimination/segregation and experienced stigma of pwds are prominent
characteristics of the disability culture. in other words, these shared experiences are the ones unifying pwds as a group (or
a culture) of people. then, as society's acceptance toward them becomes better and pwds are more and more assimilated into it
(in other words, a degree of stigma or discrimination toward pwd is decreased), hypothetically speaking, what will happen to
the disability culture after a common struggle is gone?
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