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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
~~Albert Einstein~~
Create your own visitor map!I'm probably more used to a different form of discrimination: discrimination based on the premise that one has a "handicap".
let me explain, my parents are Deaf, while I can hear perfectly, I am therefore described as a CODA (child of deaf adults) but oftentimes, moreso with the less educated, I find that people have a tendency to look down upon me, as if I am handicapped, when in fact, I, and my parents, take pride in our Deaf culture, our lifestyle, and our language, that the Universities here in the United States are FINALLY recognizing as an actual language unto itself. It's terrible, the way that people look down on those that are different, my mom was born Deaf, so music? it's nothing special to her, it means nothing to her, the lack thereof is all that she's ever known. This is the same for many of the culturally deaf in the United states, we have pride in who we are, and don't appreciate the destructive nature of this mentality.
I find it interesting, how we all have a tendency to want to make everyone the same, "curing" the deficiencies, giving everyone the same opportunities, but while some people have certain weaknesses, they also have other factors that play in to give them strengths overall. For example, many people believe that those that are unable to hear should be banned
from ever driving, because OBVIOUSLY the ability to hear is necessary to drive a car. In actuality, the deaf, while being less able to listen for emergency vehicles and the sort, they are much more observant, they can keep track of several things going on around them at once, and it doesn't take a genius to use your mirrors
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I really hope you see my point here, the Deaf are being discriminated against to this very day.. I really hope you respond with a note or something along those lines, if you're interested in what I have to say, or my perspective on different issues, or anything related to your experiences with Deaf culture, either here in the states or around the world, I'm incredibly fascinated with world sign language, and I wonder how their locations have changed the cultures respectively.
Feel free to comment if you have any thoughts in particular you'd like to discuss
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
~~Mark Twain~~
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
~~Albert Einstein~~
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