All Indians MUST necessarily know Hindi,
ALL THAT’s WRONG WITH THIS LETTER on the Self-Determination Program from the CA Department of Developmental Services.
Someone at DDS decided that because I have an Indian origin last name.
1. My mother tongue must be HINDI; its not.
2. I MUST KNOW how to read the HINDI devanagari script.
3. An automatic presumption on the part on the Hindi-speaking person at DDS who came up with this plan, that every person of Indian origin knows Hindi.
Hindi is predominant in specific parts of the India only. Even if half the country knows Hindi, it marginalizes the remaining 650 million Indians in India who don't use it; the southern states being an example. There are 22 official languages in India…
I found this very insensitive; almost reflective of the autistic/disabled experience where neurotypicals/nondisabled will assume that theirs’ is the only experience that counts.
Why are they making information on disability services more inaccessible here in the CA and wasting taxpayer money in the process. How many trees died in printing out thousands of these letters, how many mailman hours were wasted in the delivery these letters.
Who got to decide this in CA; given its claim of being a more disability friendly state. This is really the last thing I expected in California.
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