A foolish consistency

[pecunium]

As I was noodling around Blogshares (actually, I was moderating votes on the index) and I found a guy complaining about having to choose beween English and Spanish when he uses the ATM.

I asked him what the problem was, after all, it was capitalism in action.

Comments

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Geez, I wonder what this guy thinks of Sign Language? (Not completely applicable, but IMHO it relates.)

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

What I meant to say in the above is that I have a hard time with people who think we should be an "English Only" country 'cuz ASL ain't English.

So what're they saying about Deaf people, they should go eat hard cheese & die?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Not exactly.

When I was studying ASL, and spending a lot of time in the community, I learned a lot. First, I got to be a semi-visible minority. That was interesting.

But to people like this guy, the deaf are invisible, and when seen sort of romantic/cute. Because they aren't "foreign."

And they don't think ASL is a different language, and that English is the written language of the American deaf makes it easier to not see that they are a sub-culture, like, and in; but not wholly of, the greater group of the hearing.

TK