Sign Language In Deaf Culture

There are a few different types of sign language around the world. However, the most common sign language is used in the United States is ASL (American sign language). Moreover, deaf people not only have their own language, but also have their own culture like hearing people. The deaf culture is very important to the deaf community. And, as an ASL student, I have more chances to join in two Deaf events to have a closer view of Deaf Culture in general, or more specific American Deaf Culture. The events are the movie nights held at Santa Ana College on 18th and 20th October, 2016. The definition of Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication, by Wikipedia. First of all, getting attention behavior of the deaf people is the very first culture that hearing people must to know become starting a conversation. Differently with hearing culture, in deaf culture, taping on shoulder of a deaf person is not considered as an impolite action. However, if you are far from the deaf person and want to get attention, you could wave your hand and facing them …show more content…
conversational strategies are the next thing that I observed in the movie night. After the movie started about 10 mins, I recognized that a young man who sat in front of my seat is deaf while a girl sat next to him is hearing. During the movie, they had few conversations using ASL, but once time I saw the girl wrote down something on the paper, then gave it to him. Then, he looked like to understand her better. Paper and pen are helpful. Drawing and writing down message can help in some circumstances. This conversation strategy leads to effective