<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>January 30, 2006</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Barbara - You are absolutely right about this...Excellent point. There is a history behind these issues, related to oppression.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>What advice can you give all of us? How would you approach this? I am very interested in your advice (or anyone else's advice)... smile...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>---------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 30, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Barbara O'Dea wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">If we think of the problem as one of ignorance, pride and politics that can be overcome with information, explanations and descriptions, we may be on the wrong road to change. I expect that a change in cultural views, that have evolved in a milieu of oppression and paternalism, will take a great deal more than providing information. I thing the task of getting Deaf communities to accept a written system for their signed langauges must include <B>dealing with</B> those deep-rooted cultural mores.</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>