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Did not I mention two-way respect?

I never said we must OBEY elders.

I suggest we ought to respect elders by understanding their perspective — taking in theirs. It is really hard for them to feel us ( young people), because they are not “living” in our time. We do not have to learn and practice what they do. We just need to learn to listen and UNDERSTAND.

That way we can either agree or disagree.

Simply put, understanding does not mean we must follow or obey.

Young people and elders … it means the whole population! Duh!

Funny thing . . .

Every time I express my high level thoughts justifying something in ASL , I end up not being well received. A lot of misunderstandings. I notice whenever I share my deep thoughts, I tend to use ASL with its English grammar, and spell some certain big words. That makes me sign clumsily a little bit , AND many of you perceive them wrong.

Whenever I want to think beyond societal norms and ask simple questions, I must pause and think how do I express them — what audience, what language, and how should I deliver — to prevent great misunderstandings.

Often, I tell them however I feel like.

As I said on my previous blog, many of you either understand or misunderstand — of those who misunderstand, they often contribute toward the ambiance of misunderstanding. Sometimes they become deliberately antagonistic, however, they also can be unwitting at times.

Note: Look out for a new video post on a Zen Story in ASL!  

Teri discusses the trend in disrespecting elders nowadays — in a response to a deaf elder blogger's post, "Pet Peeves? Suggestions?" on her blog site, "My World . . . at a Glance".

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Note: Part Two- Zen Story will be posted sometime tomorrow.  It's kind of late — past midnight and I need to get some rest.

Someone emailed me to give a friendly feedback — telling me that I appear to be too close to the camera. Yes, he was right. I was surprised how did it turn out, because I used the different system and the display showed I was in the frame.  Weird!

Sorry if it's a bad shot. 

Teri discusses how should we give due credit to those, who get involved with any kinds of projects within the deaf community, and the rebuttal to the certain posts.  Two parts. 

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My Bill, who is also a blogger. He has an entry discussing deaf dolphin and her calf on his blog.

He became friggin' angry after reading the article on CNN.com. He wrote a response on his daybook. I thought you would be interested to read his blog entry.

Bill's entry, "Deaf Dolphin Kills Baby":

You must have read it. No? Between all the masturbatory blogging about Galluadet and Audism this and hearing people that . . .You must have seen it. No? Use your brain. Exchange the word "deaf" for "black, muslim or poor"

Translation. "Deaf people are poor parents"

So while you are blame blasting hearing people for your problems or sitting in a small circles watching your world come to an end, you should open your eyes and see the truth. Deaf people are no different from Jews, Tibetans or Native Indians.

Your culture is not appreciated by mainstream culture. If you do not defend it, you will perish. You sleep amongst the enemy. You dine with the devil.

"Had that poor baby dolphin had a white, Christian, hearing mother, it would have lived." That is the caption.

Deaf dolphin's 5-day-old calf dies
Black dolphin's 5-day-old calf dies
Jew dolphin's 5-day-old calf dies
Muslim dolphin's 5-day-old calf dies
Poor dolphin's 5-day-old calf dies
Immigrant dolphin's 5-day-old calf dies
Terrorist dolphin's 5-day-old calf dies
Lesbian dolphin's 5-day-old calf dies
Gay dolphin's 5-day-old calf dies

Think about it.

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Teri's comment: Whoa! I never have seen him being horribly angry over an article –that fricking ignorant writer (and readers)! Umm….  Your opinion? 

Teri expresses her thought based on  a Zen story, "Egotism" and how she compares it to the deaf culture's unpopular mean, Crab Theory.

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I wish some deaf readers would show greater understanding and compassion (no offense intended, read below before jumping into conclusion– sigh!).

However, it's an undeniable fact that the behavior of many v/bloggers, and readers/commentors contributes toward the ambiance of misunderstanding. Sometimes this behavior is deliberately antagonistic, however, it's also unwitting at times.

The information I share is not intended to insult or put down anyone and of those it criticizes. It's also not my intention to disparage anyone's efforts or ASL skills.  Please note that I did NOT name anyone who did I learn the Y-SYSTEM sign from, and say that the sign is wrong in the first place.

Instead, it is a sincere and well-intentioned effort to help those deaf readers including myself who are genuinely interested in improving relations between themselves and hearing, and learning more about ASL. I hope it will be taken as such –Think Different & SYSTEMICALLY.

Anyway, the video post on S-SYSTEM & Y-SYSTEM signs immediately set off a firestorm of debate, prompting the de facto king of v/blogland, Joey to post his.

I am quite surprised that Joey responded why he uses that sign. His explanation is pretty interesting.  It is obvious that he assumed that he started using the Y-SYSTEM sign in the v/blogland, and that he felt obliged to account for.

In fact, I never thought of his b/vlog as the original source, because I knew (know) him pretty well, growing up together at MD School for the Deaf. I even had a VP session with him a couple of nights before posting my video clip. I had grown accustomed to his face, reading his facial expressions and signs. I did not focus on his sign skills.  He as the “originator” had not occurred in my mind at all.

Truth to be told, he is a good friend of mine. If I first thought of him before sharing the perspective from my work fellow with readers, I would never strike a match.

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Whoa!  That's all I can say! Nah!  This vidoe clip explains why I brought it up in the first place — a further reflection.  There is a lot of things I want to say — giving some examples, and so on, however I feel that many of you do know what the heck I talk about. 

Many of you already brought up several issues of using the initialized letters in ASL

AND AND AND I want to keep the video short!!!  Enjoy!

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