 | kamylienne (80)
09/06/2004 | While left-handed folks have to deal with products with the tendency to be made for right-handed folks (such as scissors), but I don't see a lot of actual discrimination because of it. It wasn't always the case--since the left hand was used as the cleaning hand in many cultures before, the left hand was seen as unclean. The German word for left handed is supposedly linkish, which means awkward, and Russians use the word levja, meaning left-handed, as an insult. For a long time, left-handedness was thought to be a behavior which needed to be corrected. All this, because someone didn't like what hand someone wrote with? Well, it's not as big of an issue now. There's a lot more little fun facts about left-handedness at http://www.umkc.edu/imc/lefties.htm.
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