A add-on to the previous post.
Should we use positive terming and avoid negative terming?
After asking this question to Mr. Andreas, and the answer he gave I remembered the answer that I told Chris/Jason some time back while we were having lunch...
Mr. Andreas pointed out that words such as "blind" "handicapped" "disabled" may come across as a more strong word compared to positive terming such as "physically challenged" "visually impaired".
However even so, it does not mean that we should avoid this word. Instead of avoiding this word, we could just use this word openly, it could in a way, help to test and build up the self-esteem of these people.
And like what I told Chris/Jason... It would be alright if everyone just keep on avoiding the use of negative terming.. but what if just this one day... this one person used a negative terming on a handicapped person... would the person be able to take it?
It might be the first time he heard someone using the word "handicapped" on him... and the impact might be too big for him to take it...
But however, if we had been more open and used these "stronger" words more often, the person who is handicapped might be able to take it more easily and might not have felt that hurt.
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