Outside reading #8 : Culture

Today I did a reading on the culture of the deaf community, or deaf culture. It talks about the views hearing people have on this culture. One view is that they are impaired by not hearing and they are not "normal". Another view is that they just have their own culture and share common interests with everyone. They have their own language of sign language. If you think about it, we do not think say someone speaking Spanish is impaired because they do not speak English. Of course they can not hear, but there are many ways to get around that and do the same things as anyone else would do. They share sign language with other people in that culture, the only difference is that they are not majorly centralized in one place like other cultures. In other words, they do not originate from one place. However, there are many similarities that people of that culture share. Common obstacles they need to cross and common views from a judgmental society. You get to chose how you want to view the deaf culture. Do you see them as impaired from their "abnormality" or do you see them as just another common culture?

http://www.signmedia.com/info/adc.htm