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"Speaking our Ideology," means using
words & images that …
- Include all people's contribution to history
- Promote mutual empowerment rather than power-over
- Promotes sustainable relations with the earth
- Respect the histories, struggles & needs
of diverse groups and individuals
- Use humor to heal, not to wound or ridicule
- Assume we are doing the best we know how
- Emphasize unity while honoring diversity
- Promote the full flowering of every individual
- Honor human differences, individual and cultural
- Respect all beings, human and other
- Emphasize cooperation, not competition in
describing human nature
- Assume women and men are equal not opposite
- Are free of racial, ethnic and religious bias
- Emphasize on mutual benefit rather than win/lose
metaphors.
- Minimize win/lose metaphor. Emphasis on mutual
benefit and resolution
- Referring to groups by the names they choose
for themselves for example: Afro-Americans
- Replacing 'male-centered' words with neutral
ones, instead of 'man-made' use 'mind-made',
instead of 'brotherhood' use 'community', instead
of 'kingdom' use 'kindom.'
- Equal use of female and male examples such
as 'brothers and sisters' use equally with 'sisters
and brothers'.
- Avoid possessive/dominator language. For example:
Instead of 'my workers in my sector' use 'the
workers in our sector'
- Avoiding domineering language for example:
- instead 'to get work out of somebody,'
replace with 'to believe someone can do
this or that'
- instead 'make understand' replace with
'explain'
- instead 'I want you to give me…'
replace with ' could you please give me…'
- instead 'I want to make you a good ….'
replace with, 'I trust that you have in
you to be a good …..'
- Use "and" not "but". Consider
what is implied by "She is intellectual
but hard working" (Intellectual is considered
a putdown, invalidation and taken as inferior
to hard working). Say, "she is intellectual
and hard working."
- 'Down trodden humanity' - not all are downtrodden,
and those who are may not like to be called
as such, - better to say 'people who are in
need of ….'
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