In reading one of this week's readings, " I WOULD ALWAYS RATHER BE ABNORMAL THAN HOLISTIC: NINE MICRO-ESSAYS," Shana Bulhan Haydock asserts that abnormality is more desirable than wholeness. In her words, "the whole has always existed at the expense of the particular" (Haydock, N.A.). As I understand, it means that the trend of holistic approach diminish diversity and particularity. In the article, Haydock also described the idea that westerners would set themselves as the norms and easterners as divergent from the norm. And divergence is always "associated with pathology, and needs to be fixed." In other words, the easterners' divergence from the Westerners' norms is illness and abnormality that needs to be dealt with. According to Haydock, "I want to see an alternatives movement that embraces divergence, that both resists and reclaims pathology, that refuses wholeness." I kind of relates to this because I don't want to submit to the western norms that is so contrary to my beliefs. In Haydock's words, "I want to be able to be broken and fucked up." In the article, the medical system and how westerners despise the nature medicine is also discussed. Actually, herbs, acupuncture and cupping therapy works for some people instead of what westerners believe. I hope that marginalized ideas, norms and belief systems can be preserved and recognized. My question is: how do we help the westerners realize that there is no universal belief systems and that we live in a multi-racial words with different background, norms and believe systems that is equal in terms of values with the western ones?
Works cited
Haydock, S. "Fucked Up." In I would always rather be abnormal than holistic: Nine micro-essays. (45-53). DSM: Asian American edition.
Jaspers, Elvire. "Cultural diversity makes your team stronger." WeAreBrain, Jul 6, 2017. Retrieved from: https://thebrainfiles.wearebrain.com/cultural-diversity-makes-your-team-stronger-ae7e022b1310.
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