Discussion 1: Disability Culture

Culture is a very important issue because our individual cultural orientation is present in every interaction and it is how society identifies us as an individual or group. Too often, we make assumptions about a person’s beliefs or behaviors based on a single cultural indicator, particularly related to race or ethnicity, when in reality, our cultural identities are a complex weave of all the cultural groups around us or that we belong to that influence our values, beliefs, and behaviors.

Recent knowledge emerging out of the disability rights movements and grounded in disability studies research promotes new understanding of disability as a socially constructed culture and as a social identity. Many people support the emerging issue of “disability culture” or “the culture of disability” and many more dispute disability as being a cohesive force to form a cultural group. As we challenge these assumptions and traditional views of disability, our views can become more meaningful and relevant to the disability community and more informative to social development.

1. After reviewing the Learning Resources, please respond to the following questions:

a) Taking into consideration what constitutes a culture — Do you believe that disabilityhas a convincing foundation to declare that there is a disability culture?

i) If Yes, please explain and give 2 examples as to why, or

ii) If Not, please explain and give 2 examples as to why.

2. Society tends to create stigma and place labels on people that are believed to be different than the majorly in many different ways. In many instances, these actions become part of the norm of society and spread from one generation to the other. We also understand that stigma and labels, in the majority of the cases, have negative consequences for the group being targeted.

Please answer the following questions:

a) In your view explain — What is stigma and how it affects our perception of others?

b) Describe 2 forms of stigma that society applies to people with disabilities.

c) As society members, what can we do to eliminate the stigma placed on disability and people with disabilities. Please explain. and give one examples

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