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 e9QJC5919455; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:12:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:12:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <6.d32a590.2729db44@aol.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: KathleenBombach@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:253] Re: deafness as culture: a question I need X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1119 Lines: 18 Kate: One can be a member of two cultures--deaf and Hispanic. It is not an either-or situation, although conflicts may and do arise between differing expectations from the groups. Most of us are all members of different cultures and most of us have conflicts between expectations of the different groups to whom we belong by birthright, experience, and choice. My father's family, being poor Indian Catholics who worked as truckdrivers, farmworkers, laborers, and waitresses, had one set of expectations. My mother's family, all Michigan autoworkers, white, Protestants, union members and housewives, had a different set of expectations. My friends in graduate school, the sons and daughters of military officers, lawyers, doctors, postmaster generals, advisors to the president, governors, legislators, professors, journalists, and bankers, (I grew up in Austin while LBJ was president.) had a different set of expectations entirely. Were there conflicts? Of course. But at different times and situations I was members of all these groups with their own identities and subcultures. Kathleen Bombach
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