if gender and race are visual social constructs...how does a blind person perceive them?

Question

sorry i guess i should have extrapulated, i dont mean skin colour, i mean the socially constructed race, and in regard to gender not the old out dated binary system of man and woman i mean the multi faceted continum that truely exists .the first ques you get from someone is gender and race so would a blind person be more open minded and accepting and less influenced by advertising/media/socail norms.

Answer 1

Our gender and race exist in every nuance of our being. It is who and what we are. None of which has anything to do with visibility. You're question is obviously the product of a very immature mind.

Answer 2

Maybe you should ask a blind person?

The question lacks a factual basis. Gender and race are NOT merely visual. Blind people can certainly understand that only a female human can carry a child. There are many non-visual cues that can help someone determine gender (to a certain degree of success).

Race, also has non-visual components, which are of course, less reliable determinants, but can be used for distinguishing people of different races.

Answer 3

There are two senses that come into play, for the blind, in this case.

Hearing, which may perceive a local, regional or foreign accent.

The other may be the sense of smell, especially with known friends or associates, which may indicate male or female, before any words are spoken. Familiar colognes are one.

If strangers had a common spoken language, without a noticeable accent, I doubt a blind person could discern anything about them, other than male or female.. Certainly, all the above being equal, no color could be ascertained.

Answer 4

Someone who is blind cannot distinguish race but can distinguish gender,because gender can easily be known as there are lots of differences between the voices and attitudes of males and females.
Race,though,can be known sometimes if the blind man is good in distinguishing and familiarizing different accents of people of different races if they talk one language(english)but with different accents especially in a country like america were blacks,sometimes,have noticabely a different accent from whites and hispanic........anyway this is not always succesful 'cause you can find a blck person talking in a hispanic or latino accent or white accent,right?!

Answer 5

Gender should be relatively easy. There's generally an obvious difference between male and female voices.

Race - well, you could go by accents in some cases, but not all. I suppose it doesn't really matter someone's race. If you like talking to them, it's not very important. Or you could try asking.

Answer 6

I would completely disagree that they're visual social constructs, for starters.
Gender is completely identifiable audially, and it has its own norms.
Race is more defined by culture than anything. It's not "skin color" that people have a problem with.....it's trouble accepting cultural differences (gansta, tardiness, etc.). You can still hear someone's culture coming through their language. I bet blind people are just as entertained by Springer as the rest of us.

Answer 7

With respect to gender - they'd just have to listen to their voice, unless a guy was kicked in the nuts recently and as such has reason to have a higher pitched voice.

With respect to race - this is more difficult, because there's people of different races who have "accents" because of the fact that they were born in that particular country. One of my co-workers in my office job is east indian and he speaks with a british accent. I don't think there's any sure way of knowing what race the person is, just by listening to their voices. Feeling them wouldn't help either, unless each race has a different number of eyes, ears, nose, mouth.. etc.

Answer 8

not in any respect. Unconditional love is a love which will continuously love a similar, no remember what. rather of turning a blind eye to complications or circumstances, it prefers to be affected individual and records, and proceed loving no remember what. Unconditional love can't be earned or lost. Blind love does not exist, because a blind love ought to require the bestower to love in adversity by technique of looking any opposite direction rather of embracing the challenge and dealing by it, loving a similar all the at the same time as, which not in any respect lasts. Unconditional love is a love that endures always.

Answer 9

That reminds me of he true story of a blind african-american boy raised by this foster parents from a very young childhood to believe that he was caucasian because they lived in the deep southern parts that were still in racist times. Eventually, he became so caught up in the notion of white supremecy, he wanted to join the KKK.... of course, he couldn't understand why he was shunned away, he believed in white power more than anyone.!