How My View Changed on Deafness In this semester my perspective on the deaf language and the deaf culture has changed and given me greater insight to ASL as a second language. ... The deaf also has their own culture and community. ... Along with the videos See What I Mean: Differences between Deaf & Hearing Cultures and Deaf Perspective Heritage I have acquired a clear understanding of why the deaf have a unique culture and community. In A Journey into the Deaf-World four characteristics of a culture are mentioned. ... Other things that the deaf culture has that all other cultures have ar...

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d" culture, and become fully American. ... I, for a long time was ashamed of my grandfather's speaking, but not because he had broken English but because he is deaf. ... She, first hand has had the experience of seeing both worlds and different cultures ways of speaking. ...

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In Malcolm X's essay "Learning to Read" he wrote that "my homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America" (pg.253 para. 37). ... If an individual speaks two languages they might lose the language they grew up with maybe even their culture. ...

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