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The article “Diversity: Attitudes” lists three different cultures viewpoints on disabilities and how understanding these perceptions could better help their home to school interactions. Most Americans in the education system understand that each individual student with a disability needs a bit more care and patients in order to receive an opportunity for equal education. American culture is taught a scientific approach to explain why some individuals are born with certain disabilities. A common example would be Down’s syndrome which is caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21 and not because of some bad karma like the Pacific Islanders and Philippine would like to believe. Just like any culture there several different viewpoints on any subject

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