Right to use sign language in educational programmes

Shadrach Chuba-Uzo
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/ #836 Use of Language of Choice is a Human Right

2010-11-26 08:04

Every language has its root in a culture. To denounce a people's language is to denounce their culture, and this amounts to racism. According to Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, untill the philosophy which holds one race superior and another, inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, the world will not know peace".

People who denounce the sign language of any nation are simply ignorant, and should hide their faces in shame. We are living in the 21st century - an age of renaissance for the deaf and all. Only primitivity masked in civilisation can underly any attempt to dumb the cultural identity of the deaf in any country.