Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e9QGA5905079; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:10:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:10:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <LAW2-F1532VqFnW0kKI00001bb7@hotmail.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Eileen Eckert" <eileeneckert@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:248] Re: deafness as culture: a question I need answered X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 3050 Lines: 76 Kate, I am white and English-speaking, and though I speak some Spanish and have some knowledge of Latino cultures, I don't consider those cultures mine. My daughter's father is Latino. He and my daughter share a culture to which I do not belong. My daughter and I share a culture to which he does not belong. She is the only one in the family who is "mixed race" and bicultural. It's not a big deal, and she notes the differences between her family and others without making value judgments about them (yet). We'll see how she decides to identify herself as she gets older. Culture does not have to be exclusionary, but I think it's more likely to become so when people from outside the culture impose their judgments (often negative) on it. Eileen >From: "Kate Gladstone & Andrew S. Haber" <kate@global2000.net> >Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@nifl.gov >To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> >Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:241] deafness as culture: a question I need >answered >Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 23:28:21 -0400 (EDT) > >I suppose that, somewhere at the root of my feeling bothered over the >"deafness as culture" position, there lies the fact that this position puts >parents and children in different cultures, which seems unlike "culture" as >we usually think of it. > >E.g., consider other things that we think of as "culture": > >we expect that people of Hispanic culture come from families of Hispanic >culture, and will in turn - if they start families - start families of >Hispanic culture ... > >similarly for most of the entities that we think of as "culture." Most of >us >would find it very strange, at the least, to meet someone who said "I am of >Hispanic culture, but my parents and grandparents, my brothers, my sisters, >my cousins and my children and grandchildren are not: I am the only person >in my family who belongs to my culture" ... > >yet, if we consider deafness as a culture, then it seems we find exactly >this situation. > >I don't know (and would like to know very much) how members of, say, >Hispanic culture (or other cultures with close family ties - especially >extended-family ties) respond when a Hispanic person born deaf decides to >culturally class him/herself with other deaf people: > in other words, when such a person decides that s/he does not (and >never >did) belong to the same culture as the rest of his/her family. > >Can anyone inform me on this matter? > > >Yours for better letters, >Kate Gladstone - Handwriting Repair >kate@global2000.net, kate@WriteMe.com >http://www.global2000.net/handwritingrepair >325 South Manning Boulevard >Albany, NY 12208-1731 >518/482-6763 > AND REMEMBER ... >you can order books through my site! (Amazon.com link - I >get a 5% - 15% commission on each book sold) > > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
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