Understanding deaf culture is difficult for people who don't know anything about it. This is because most people don't understand that deaf people are often fighting to achieve their dream and they are fighting for their disability rights so that they can achieve those dreams. ... It could be hard for deaf people who used to live in bad neighborhoods and try to be friendlier with the people in the neighborhood but it wasn't that easy, if I live in nice neighborhood then people will be friendlier and respect who I am. ... Let me give you another positive example about deaf cultu...

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People have to learn what sounds are and through time will be able to master the art of listening and hearing. ... Then, acquiring a job as a computer systems analyst, she had to work with people who did not know sign. ... We come to realize the people from these two different worlds view the cochlear implants in different lights. ... On the other hand, hearing people can't imagine why a deaf person wouldn't want to get a cochlear implant. ... As a communication disorder, there is much to learn how people cope with it. ...

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They see it as a way of eliminating the deaf community and their culture. ... With more and more people getting cochlear implants, the increase in cochlear technology, and the diseases that cause hearing loss becomes eliminated, the signing deaf community's demographics are likely to change markedly in the next few decades (Chorost, 2005). ... Other neuroprosthetics raise concerns about the alteration of people's bodies. ... Many people believe that our bodies are natural places and God created them a certain way. ... Many ethics must be followed when research for neuroprosthetics oc...

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