CHAPTER 17
CULTURAL AND DISABILITY CONSIDERATIONS
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
—KOFI ANNAN
IT’S CRAZY TO SAY that all women think alike. Or that all African Americans reason the same way. That all men from Korea think alike. That all Hispanics act the same way. That all Chinese evaluate similarly. That all Indians want the same thing. That we know what all white men want. That differently abled people all want to be treated the same way.
GENERALIZATIONS AREN’T ACCURATE
These simplified generalizations are absurd. Yet enlightened societies still attempt to pigeonhole ...
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