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And yes, this essay is due today and I'm no where near finished as usual. But something I just came across in a reading... another example of a disorder that doesn't exist in our culture.
In Mexico and Central America the knee child's envy and resentment of its new sibling to be, still in the mother's womb, gives rise to chipil, the symptoms of which are apathy, whining and a desire to cling to the mother's skirt.
In our culture this isn't a disorder, which doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but it does mean that we consider a reaction like this as part of the 'normal' rather than the 'abnormal' or the realm of illnesses and disorders.
Reminds me how in many cultures kids being hyperactive is not a disorder but is seen as just normal behaviour, but in our culture we have something called ADHD.
In Mexico and Central America the knee child's envy and resentment of its new sibling to be, still in the mother's womb, gives rise to chipil, the symptoms of which are apathy, whining and a desire to cling to the mother's skirt.
In our culture this isn't a disorder, which doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but it does mean that we consider a reaction like this as part of the 'normal' rather than the 'abnormal' or the realm of illnesses and disorders.
Reminds me how in many cultures kids being hyperactive is not a disorder but is seen as just normal behaviour, but in our culture we have something called ADHD.
