Lawrence Kohlberg is discussed a lot in this book. I’d
been thinking about Kohlberg and his ways that he examines morality. I do think of culture in how one person
develops and was reminded that Buddhist ideals may be left out of what “morals”
may mean. For example, important Buddhist concepts (the end of suffering and
compassion) are not captured in Kohlberg’s model.
When I was doing AIDS work for the
Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team, it was hard to apply for funding because
not a lot of research had been done on the Asian Pacific Islander
communities. Back then, as well as now,
we didn’t even know which Asians or Pacific Islanders were getting what disease
because API ethnicities were not aggregated.
We didn’t know who was getting diabetes or who was getting lung cancer.
This hits close to home because when I got into a fight with a counselor who didn’t understand the
cultural needs of an Asian person in alcohol/drug rehab facilities.
He didn’t think that being an alcoholic wasn’t a big deal—alcoholism was
commonly talked about. I said NOT in the
Asian community.
No comments:
Post a Comment