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 > > > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > > To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L > > Web interface > > at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html > > > > To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: > > http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l > > To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: > > [log in to unmask] > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > > > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface > at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html > > To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l > To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: > [log in to unmask] > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤