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Thread: How do "loose culture" and "tight culture" deal with left-handed people?

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[quote=JABAROOTOO,292799]Interesting!  My father was born of a generation that forced children to conform.  While he wrote awkwardly with his right hand he did everything else with his left and even suffered with dyslexia as a result of being forced to use his right hand.  My brother and one sister are both left handed- very gifted and my parents forced neither of them to conform.

I watched with some interest one of my Chinese kindy kids who was using his left hand to write and colour-in.  He was just learning to write his English name clearly when he was instructed by his parents to use his left hand for writing.  He then began to write his English name in mirror image.  This is quite a difficult thing to do for most people but for this five year old it seemed easy and natural.  I pointed this out to his teacher and suggested that she inform his parents that perhaps they should not push the issue.  He is an especially bright kid and I wonder what will happen if he is forced to comply with societies 'norms'

Left-handedness does not mean FREAK but it quite possibly indicates a very clever mind and IMO it should not be tampered with.

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