In my essay you will learn about Jamaican and Haitian culture and their outlooks on disability. Laster on you will see the comparisons between those two cultures and the American culture. I selected the Jamaican culture because it has always been a dream of mine to visit Jamaica. I selected Haiti because I am not well educated on their culture.
In that Jamaican cultural concepts that influence disability originate from their religious beliefs that are related to Christianity and Afro- Christian sects. The beliefs that Jamaicans have majorly influence that way they look at disability. They believe that disability is a punishment for wrong doing. Even professionals and the educated middle class tend that a disability is a result of sin.
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If a service provider remains open to the Jamaican cultures about people with disabilities, the can give helpful and correct service to someone with a disability. Since there is a lack of familiarity in the disability culture, a service provider may find it difficult to help someone deal with their disability. (Stone, 107)
In the Haitian culture it is very rare for someone to openly talk about disabilities. It does not matter if the person was born with the disability or gained the disability over time. They believe that a disability happens from the origin in the interaction of the natural and supernatural worlds. ( Stone, 147) As an example, a person with a disability has the disability because of a curse from Iwa, a spirit, who is upset. (Stone, 147) They believe that disability is a punishment. A Christian in Haiti believes that going against God is the equivalent as going against Iwa. They also believe that disability is caused by a spell that was cast by an enemy. A person with a disability in Haiti wants to live an independent life. They have the same values as the other people in Haiti who does not have a disability. Parents in Haiti are overprotective of their children, whether they have a disability or not. However, if their child has a disability, they love their child, consider them “worthless”. If their child has a mental disability, when they turn 18 they become they chose to be their legal guardians so they can continue to make
Ultimately Americans’ view disabilities as something that needs medical treatment and educational intervention. Other cultures views toward individuals with disabilities are both similar and different in some ways. Pacific Islanders believing that disabilities are a result of their ancestors wrong doing, individuals from the Philippines believing that that a disability is a curse and reject the individuals, and the Chamorro culture believes that individuals with disabilities should be protected because disabilities are a gift from good.
Studies show, that dynamic nursing participation in conjunction with their patients is vital to attain at culturally consistent care, and to achieve patient care needs in their specific environmental frameworks (Smith & Parker, 2015) Based on the knowledge that an individual is made up of their own culturally diverse environment, nurse Hernandez sets up a culturally sensitive plan of care at discharge. Mrs. Franklin-Jones is from a Jamaican culture. Her shared story tells the nurse her values and ideas about health-related self-care. The theory of culture care diversity is significant in the care of Mrs. Franklin-Jones and other patients. It suggests the value of culture, and its promotion in the plan of care is the key to recovery. When the patient feels comfortable in his or her skin, the willingness to learn how to advance health is
Disability is a definition of a physical or mental condition which impacts on a person’s movements, activities and senses. People with disabilities were informed of bias and disadvantages compared to an ordinary person. There are many biases and prejudices contributed to the discrimination of individuals with a disability. Partly because of social connotations the disabled people are useless, cannot work. In fact, these extraordinary people always bring and do incredible things. They not only overcome their grim fate, but also bring good things to life, especially those who are perfectly considering better than an ordinary person, they are not aware of the capacity of individuals disabilities with them characteristics such as loyalty, dedication, and hard work.
Physical disability culture should be considered as a culture itself along with race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. Disability culture, includes behaviors, beliefs, and ways of living, that are unique to persons affected by disability. Here in the United States, non-disabled individuals typically view disability culture as primarily social and political in nature, whereas academic communities view disability culture from predominantly historical perspectives (Peters, 2014). In some countries, people with disabilities are still segregated and lack access to education. In the United States, many individuals with disabilities battle discrimination in terms of employment, housing, education, and access to public buildings and services. As do individuals from many other cultures, persons with disabilities share a common bond of experiences and resilience (Darrow, 2013).
Dr. Munyi of Kenyatta University states in “Past and Present Perceptions Towards Disability: A Historical Perspective” that fear,
As a minority group, they face cultural stereotypes, discrimination, and social stigma of being disabled and an African American. Within the African American culture, specific disabilities are also looked at with a culture lenses which puts further stress on African American persons with disabilities. The relationship between African Americans and disability is complicated because the black community associates social stigma to certain kinds of disabilities. In addition, African Americans lack social support that could enable access and accommodation when compared with other ethnic
Disability in a socio-cultural context can be defined as "a barrier to participation of people with impairments or chronic illnesses arising from an interaction of the impairment or illness with discriminatory attitudes, cultures, policies or institutional practices" (Booth, 2000). The traditional view of disability often focuses on the individual, highlighting incapacities or failings, a defect, or impairment. This focus creates obstacles to participation on equal terms since an individual who seems to lack certain capacities may not be able to attain autonomy.
Interviewee Billie Ragon gave me the opportunity to hear the story of her life and how her color and disability has affected how she has lived. Family values and the region, in which she lived, played a huge part in how she lived daily life. Different groups of people, whether it was family or just individuals from the community impacted her life greatly. Finally, Mrs. Ragon out of the kindness of her heart wanted to conduct this interview so maybe it could help others that may be suffering or feeling any kind of pain.
In the past, having a disability was seen as a physical imperfection. People with disabilities were treated as moral and social subordinates. We were trained that if a person had a disability they were not able to perform a task with the same ability as a normal person. They have been denied jobs for which they are highly qualified because they have been considered incompetent, or because employers were not comfortable with their presence in the workplace. Occasionally people with certain disabilities have been committed to institutions and facilities because people believed they were incapable of making decisions or caring for themselves or because people did not want to interact with them (Blanck, 2004).
The term culture in a disability refers to those individuals with a particular disability who share many things in common. If the individual was born or acquired the disability early on, there are great possibilities that he was raised in or experienced special education or in a particular environment growing up. Individuals with disabilities have many life experiences in common other than the actual disability. Most disabled individuals do not have parents who suffer from a disability themselves, which in turn leads them to practice two cultures or life environments. In many cases the disabled individual has to learn the culture from other members of the particular community they are members of.
The emergence of disability studies brought the thought that disability is a characteristic like race,
Stereotypes… they are everywhere nowadays! “Asians speak English with an accent”, “Handicapped people cannot do things as well as people who are physically healthy”. These are not true. The truth is that some Asians speak clearer than people who have English as their mother tongue, just like some handicapped people do some things better than people who are physically healthy. But the people who came out of their shells and stood up for themselves faced many personal challenges in order to make a difference. In source one, “Finding her way”, and source two, “Kylie’s Project”, it is proven that cultural differences and disability misunderstandings can lead to personal challenges.
Furthermore, both social work and disability studies demand that human beings recognize your privilege even when you do not think you have any. Each study has their own critique and ways that they can improve, social work needs to include individuals with both physical and intellectual disabilities in their services they provide. One of the critiques of the disability studies is that it focuses on a white body rather than an indigenous or even black individual. Most of the authors that are published in this field is done by a white-bodied person. They need to be more diverse and identify what is happening in this area and “illuminate the fragile relationship between disability, race and ethnicity in extant disability studies” (Bell, 2010). By clarifying that both indigenous and black bodied individuals have disabilities and impairments too, they will help enlighten their equality for all and distinguish that they too are oppressed. By accepting and acknowledging that people from numerous ethnicities, races, gender and different walks of life have disabilities and impairments, disabilities
Disabilities are the oldest friends of living organisms. There have been always mutants and organisms with disabilities since the origin of them. However, mutations made organisms to evolve and advance into stronger and more adapted creatures too. That is why I don’t want to consider the people with disabilities as people with weaker physical characteristics but instead I want to consider them as the people with different physical characteristics. Since the world developed and is somewhat settled in economical and societal aspects, people started to turn their view on well-being, and slowly the view is turning towards not just well-being but well-being for everyone equally. Reading the book No Pity and comparing the facts and events from
According to Turton, over 40 million individuals in America have increased disability levels and most of them live in poverty (36). Despite the fact that the Americans with Disabilities Act helps to ensure equal opportunities such as education and employment for disabled people, they remain to be overrepresented among the undereducated and the poor. Further, disabilities are also common among the minority groups since most of them live in poverty-stricken areas. Importantly, this issue is crucial in sociology as it helps study the behavior of human relationships in matters concerning crime, religion, and family amongst others. Therefore, disability is common among the people living in poverty in the society and it affects them due to the low-income that hinders access to proper health care.