Kwan Yi Lam
SS1A
10/22/2015
Reflation paper 2: Subcultures
In the class lecture video, Durkhinam et al. defines a society to be a multiplex network of human relationships and who share a common culture. It indicates that the society shapes an individual and thus within the society, an individual develops a certain identity. In this situation, the paper seeks to examine the deaf culture. In an earlier time, the term deaf was used to refer to individuals with severe hearing impairments. Therefore, deaf culture was comprised of individuals with a deficiency in the hearing organ.
However, as time evolved, the term deaf culture carried a broader meaning. The meaning included individuals with a common life experience either directly or indirectly …show more content…
As much as the deaf culture seeks to be infused and accepted in the society, it stands as a distinctive aspect from other cultures. One special aspect is the means of communication and their cultural way of carrying out their day-to-day activities.
Also, once an individual’s associates, identifies and enters into the deaf culture, they will always be part of the deaf culture and by large, the deaf society. Therefore, an outstanding aspect with the deaf culture is that one does not retire from been in the deaf culture and thus there is no aging out.
Firstly, upon learning the sign language, this becomes like a permanent language just like an individual’s native language. Naturally, one may forget the new languages learned such a Spanish, Italian or French, but very hard for a deaf cultured individual to forget to communicate in the deaf language. Moreover, culture is inherent and thus can only be passed from one generation to …show more content…
Similarly, deaf culture been part of the society, it thus has a way of shaping individuals found within the same society. In that case, joining a deaf culture and been intermingled in their way of life would be something I would oblige to do. This step would be out in the quest of first learning sign language, which would be a direct ticket towards association with deaf individuals within their culture.
At one point, I happen to mingle with deaf students during my senior high school time. This was through an inclusion program, which was meant to ensure the deaf culture stands mainstreamed to learn together with “normal” learners in the residential schools. As of now, some of the learners within the deaf culture became prominent persons in the larger society.
The prominence is to the extent of holding big positions in office such as lawyers, psychiatrists, therapists among others, (Carroll and Mather, 1997). It therefore plainly proofs that deaf culture is not any distinct from the larger society and if there is anything they need most is acceptance into the mainstream, into the larger society so that every individual can be shaped with the
SS1A
10/22/2015
Reflation paper 2: Subcultures
In the class lecture video, Durkhinam et al. defines a society to be a multiplex network of human relationships and who share a common culture. It indicates that the society shapes an individual and thus within the society, an individual develops a certain identity. In this situation, the paper seeks to examine the deaf culture. In an earlier time, the term deaf was used to refer to individuals with severe hearing impairments. Therefore, deaf culture was comprised of individuals with a deficiency in the hearing organ.
However, as time evolved, the term deaf culture carried a broader meaning. The meaning included individuals with a common life experience either directly or indirectly …show more content…
As much as the deaf culture seeks to be infused and accepted in the society, it stands as a distinctive aspect from other cultures. One special aspect is the means of communication and their cultural way of carrying out their day-to-day activities.
Also, once an individual’s associates, identifies and enters into the deaf culture, they will always be part of the deaf culture and by large, the deaf society. Therefore, an outstanding aspect with the deaf culture is that one does not retire from been in the deaf culture and thus there is no aging out.
Firstly, upon learning the sign language, this becomes like a permanent language just like an individual’s native language. Naturally, one may forget the new languages learned such a Spanish, Italian or French, but very hard for a deaf cultured individual to forget to communicate in the deaf language. Moreover, culture is inherent and thus can only be passed from one generation to …show more content…
Similarly, deaf culture been part of the society, it thus has a way of shaping individuals found within the same society. In that case, joining a deaf culture and been intermingled in their way of life would be something I would oblige to do. This step would be out in the quest of first learning sign language, which would be a direct ticket towards association with deaf individuals within their culture.
At one point, I happen to mingle with deaf students during my senior high school time. This was through an inclusion program, which was meant to ensure the deaf culture stands mainstreamed to learn together with “normal” learners in the residential schools. As of now, some of the learners within the deaf culture became prominent persons in the larger society.
The prominence is to the extent of holding big positions in office such as lawyers, psychiatrists, therapists among others, (Carroll and Mather, 1997). It therefore plainly proofs that deaf culture is not any distinct from the larger society and if there is anything they need most is acceptance into the mainstream, into the larger society so that every individual can be shaped with the