Oh we sometimes get that here in the US as well Dark. I, too, have met a
very large number of seemingly more inlightened Japanese individuals
(usually teachers), who not only seemed open to the idea of blind students
making the same way in the world as sighted folks but also seemed fascinated
by our methods for getting along. I remember one time working with a Perkins
brailler (although I happen to hate those things with a passion), and one of
them came over and started trying to read it. Couldn't understand a word he
was saying but it was still pretty neat.
Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza?
Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash.
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From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Visually impaired gamer sues Sony Online.
Funny Tom, my university has an exchange going with the university ot
tokio, and I've never had any problems with the Japanese I've met, ----
indeed I got to become quite good friends with one girl at my light opera
society.
Also, my mum, ---- who is a physio for disabled children did a
demonstration once of some equipment she was pioneering to some Japanese
businessmen, ---- who were great both about the physical disability
issue, and about my mum and I both being visually impared (they actually
invited me to go and look them up if I ever traveled to Japan).
I'm guessing that like every country though, there are mixed views.
You might actually be surprised to learn, that the general view of Vi
people in the Uk is actually pretty shoddy, both in governmental and
business terms, and among the general public.
For a long while it was the accepted belief that blind people should go to
specific institutions and stay there out of sight, ---- and indeed members
of the public can be quite resentful of Vi people for not staying inside
some sort of institution.
This has resulted in a lot of Uk blind people going to special schools,
and growing up quite isolated from everyone who isn't in the blind
cleaque, ---- and disability services who say things like "well disabled
people aren't the best judges of what they can or cannot do"
I am for instance the only officially registered blind student in Durham
uni currently, ---- and I usually get on with sorting matters myself if
they need sorting.
This is also why I'm attempting to create a new and useable deffinition of
disability in my phd, which I can then apply to solve various
dilemmas, ---- such as how a thing should or should not be judged as
accessible.
Before this turns into a long Ot wrant about my research though, ---- I'll
stop.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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