Momodou,
After you get back to me ( and us) I also intend to get back to ( not at) you.
Ginny has highlighted the dilemmas – and for you too, the emphasis is on respect……and not hurting anyone’s/ groups sensitive feelings….
Haven't yet found the time to read Chernor Bah's posting, but in the meanwhile ( reacting to your very stiff words about "arrogant rounds of force-feeding
> immigrants with the cultural diet of the administrators of power in all its
> corrosive forms." may I ask that we consider the term" acculturation" and "assimilation" of the type experienced by our Francophone brothers and "assimilation" of the type resisted by the Chosen people......
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Acculturation&meta=
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Assimilation&spell=1
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Integration&btnG=Search&meta=
Some near future time we should be talking about diversity management as a programme ( not just policy) to get people in the work market, among other goals
>
> From: Momodou S Sidibeh <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2006/11/27 må AM 10:18:59 CET
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Ämne: Sabuni and FGM (Libraries in the Sand Reveal Africa's Academic Past
>
> Bingo! ....Ginny, you' have raised the ultimate question Saint Cornelius
> needed to have asked himself. Integration must come through dialogue
> submerged in mutual respect; not as arrogant rounds of force-feeding
> immigrants with the cultural diet of the administrators of power in all its
> corrosive forms.
>
> Cornelius, I will surely get back to this in a few days, perhaps!
>
> Many thanks,
> sidibeh
>
>
> 2006/11/26, Ginny Quick <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> > OK, if you want to ban FGM, that is one thing, but has anyone considered
> > that forcing girls to
> > undergo an exam to "prove" that they've not had the practice done could be
> > just as "violating" as
> > the practice itself? Let's just say she's undergone the practice, you
> > want to make it worse by
> > making her get examined to see the extent of the FGM?
> >
> >
> > And let's say she's not undergone the practice, now you want to force
> > her to undergo an exam?
> > To prove that she' snot been?
> >
> >
> > I can remember being a teenager / child, and I'd have definitely been
> > self-conscience of my
> > body, and I'd have been completely uncomfortable having people examine me.
> >
> >
> > So, in order to stop one harm, you're going to do antoher. That's
> > real nice. And the only
> > reason why this is even being entertained is because, presumably? an
> > African said it.
> >
> >
> > What stops FGM is not forcing people to do certain things, it's
> > education, I guess, or I
> > hope anyway. It's educating people about the harm, and about how their
> > bodies work, and doing it
> > in a culturally sensitive way. I'd think. But when you start forcing
> > people to do things, when
> > you criminalize things like this, it just goes underground and people do
> > it anyway. And even more
> > so when you feel as though, rightly or worngly, people are attacking your
> > culture.
> >
> >
> > Ginny
> >
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