Re: symbolic representation of disabilities, what do you think?
Adolescents more open minded? Well I can personally attest to the untruth of that generalisation, indeed some of the worst experiences I've ever had of being the victim of mob mentality have been at the hands of teenagers.
In my experience adolescents are like anyone else, it depends upon the environment, the ethos of the over all group, and each individual's personal opinions and how willig that individual is to be swayed by the group she/he belongs to.
Sometimes familiarity can indeed change initial perceptions, and of course good social skills and learning how to converse like a human being and not! a monster from the naighboring galaxy can help, but there are equally occasions when there is simply nothing to be done and people will think what they think regardless.
It's actually a prejudice in the purist and simplest derivation of the word "pre justice" ie, judging before experience or knolidge.
That being said all "celi brating Diferences" will do is make them even sharper, this is one reason why I wrote in my thesis that while I agree the recent paralympicsso called "positive portrayal of disability" isn't a bad thing, why the hell does there have to be a "para!" olympics for disabled people.
After all, the olympics already has events for different categories of humans, men and women, weight classes in sports like boxing, sprinters, long distance runners etc, so why do disabled people need to have "a special olympics" of their own?
This is really the issue, not of separating disability as a group, but of making disability part of our everyday social landscape so that people are no longer! seen as alien.
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