Intersubjectivity and its Concepts
- 1. Lesson 14 Intersubjectivity Part 2 Mr. Edward B. Noda Jr.
- 2. Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) and Underprivileged Sectors of the Society
- 3. Person’s with Disabilities (PWD’s) ❑ According to the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the term “persons with disabilities” is used to apply to those persons who have long-term physical, psychological, intellectual, or sensory impairments which in interaction with several unreasonable or discriminatory barriers may obstruct their full and active participation as equal members of the society.
- 5. Paralympics
- 6. ❑ Much like us, persons with certain conditions have also dreams and ambitions in life. Some of them wants to become teachers, lawyers, artists, athletes, and many more. Arnold Balais Fatima Soriano Roselle Ambubuyog
- 7. Hellen Keller (1880- 1968) ● American author, political activist ● 1st deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor’s degree ● Anne Sullivan- Hellen’s mentor who was visually-impaired as well. ● Published her autobiography, The Story of My Life
- 8. Nicholas James “Nick” Vujicic (born 1982) ● Australian evangelist and motivational speaker who was born with phocomelia, a condition in which a person is born with no arms or legs. ● Founder of Life Without Limbs, a non-profit organization and ministry.
- 9. Roselle Ambubuyog (born 1980) ● 1st visually-impaired Filipino to graduate summa cum laude from Ateneo de Manila University in 2001. ● Despite her handicap, she was a consistent academic honoree- valedictorian (elementary & high school) ● Product and support manager at Code Factory, the world’s leading provider of software that allow the visually- impaired to access mobile devices.
- 10. Underprivileged Sectors of the Society ❑ The underprivileged is being described as the group of people that is suffering from different forms of social deprivation such as denial of the enjoyment of similar level of comfort and/or fundamental rights as most of the members of a civilized society due to several economic and social circumstances. ❑ This group is less in terms of material possessions and basic social benefits, like education and health services, in comparison to most of the people in a certain society.
- 11. Underprivileged Sectors of the Society ❑ Furthermore, this group of individuals is facing various dimensions of poverty, such as income poverty, health deprivation, human rights violations, gender inequity, and many more. ❑ These dimensions have incapacitated many members of the human society like women, children, and the LGBT community, wherein all are classified as underprivileged.
- 12. Underprivileged Sectors of the Society ❑ The marginalized sectors, which include jeepney drivers, farmers, fisherfolks, and many more, are also considered as underprivileged. ❑ Marginalized sectors are the groups of individuals that are experiencing the so-called marginalization, which is the act of downgrading a person, a class of people, or a concept to an insignificant, secondary, or powerless situation in a society.
- 13. ❑ Globally, women and children are being subjected to oppression and different forms of exploitation, such as prostitution and pornography that assault human dignity and violate human rights. ❑ They have turned into slaves of these criminal activities because of different social and economic conditions like poverty and lack of opportunity.
- 14. ❑ Women and children have also become victims of domestic and sexual violence. According to the Philippine National Police's - Women and Children Protection Center (PNP-WCPC), 602 incidents of sexual assault were recorded from March 17, 2020 to May 23, 2020 or an average of eight cases a day. These were the times when Luzon and other parts of the country were on enhanced community quarantine because of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
- 15. LGBTQI++ Community ❑ The members of the LGBT community are also victims of different types of violence. Many of them are experiencing numerous adverse treatments like bullying, discrimination, physical violence, and even sexual assault because of their sexual orientations and gender identities.
- 16. LGBTQI++ Community They are also facing work-related issues. Based on the first-ever Corporate SOGIE Diversity and Inclusiveness (CSDI) Index, a study that was administered by the Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce and research firm Cogencia and was participated by 100 Philippine-based companies, not a single Filipino company has any implementing policy that will protect their employees who are members of the LGBT community from various forms of discrimination within the working environment.
- 17. ❑ According to Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995), a French philosopher, we must go beyond ourselves and concentrate more on rendering assistance passionately and acting with concern toward others, particularly to the members of our society who have become victims of different dimensions of poverty. ❑ We should have the courage to defend them from any form of social deprivation and discrimination. We can do this by voicing out our concerns and obligating our government officials to enact bills and ordinances, or strictly implement the laws that we already have, that aim to protect the underprivileged from several oppressive treatments and make these people enjoy the same social services, such as education, employment, and health care, as most of the members of the society.
- 18. ❑ Also, we can help the underprivileged by sincerely and consistently joining in campaigns or movements that seek to empower them. ❑ It is our obligation to help the underprivileged, since they are considered as vulnerable to different forms of human rights violation and social deprivation. ❑ It is also important to promote inclusivity- the practice or policy of providing equal access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those having physical or mental disabilities or belonging to other minority groups. ❑ Most importantly, it is our moral duty to uphold human dignity and importance of life, because even though we are totally different from each other, our shared dignity and humanity is the thing that unifies us all.