Vedprakash Sharma Wrote:
Do not take such prejudices seriously. Many other groups in society also
experience the same... All those who cannot speak English are backwards.
... >
Wow I did not know that! Here in India people feel this way generally? And
here I come from being born outside of India but with former Indian heritage
roots, and feeling ashamed that I cannot speak Hindi. Just see how
prejudices can come from both sides! We Indians outside India feel like we
are low-born because we cannot speak home language.
So back to the topic of blindness, even we blind people feel some prejudices
towards sighted people: "They talk about me and not to me even in my
presence because they think I'm less of a human being just because I'm
blind." But may be sighted people do not feel comfortable only because they
have never dealt with a blind person before, not that they think we are less
of a human being. Or may be they do not know how to assume what we might or
might not understand in a conversation with us living without sight from
their sighted world, so they would rather not speak to us directly. There's
just so many possible factors.
Being blind and not speaking a language of the people around us is worse
because now we are also deaf (being unable to understand the language), dumb
(because we cannot speak the language), and blind as we are biologically. I
don't wish this upon my worse enemy, and I ask for your prayers that I will
find the determination to learn and speak Hindi soon enough to have enough
courage to pick up the phone and call some of you on this list, just to test
my limited diction for a conversation with you in Hindi!
Kind regards,
Yamuna Jivana Dasa
-----Original Message-----
From: Ajay Minocha
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 7:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AI] Why people make false assumptions about Visually Impaired
person?
All depends on our approach towards life and what do we actually want
to see (feel).
On 26/04/2023, [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:
Do not take such prejudices seriously. Many other groups in society also
experience the same. All Rikshaw Walahs are "Bhaiya". All those who cannot
speak English are backwards. And so on.
There goes a saying:
If you dislike something and cannot change it, accept it. If you can make
a
change in society, carry on.
So we have only two options. Be happy and smile on such persons who are
full
of prejudices.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On
Behalf Of Minar Singh
Sent: 25 April 2023 06:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AI] Why people make false assumptions about Visually Impaired
person?
Hello everyone,
I feel upset when someone assume something about me because i'm a visually
impaired. oneof my Colleagues said that He assumed that i'm good at
singing.
I didn't like the way he spoke. Why can't people understand that Visually
impaired people are unique and they can have different choices. Not every
Visually Impaired person would like to sing. I had face a similar issue
while traveling. Sighted guy associted singing with Visually impaired for
begging purpose. I was not alone. I have developed hatred for film songs
because of these experience. I do follow spiritual music. Is this our
identity in society? I will request everyone to give up singing. We can
change society's perception by educating and using technology for
independent living as much as possible.
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