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Co-cultures and How Culture Affects Communication
The topic of Deaf Culture is important to me because I aspire to be an American Sign Language interpreter and it is extremely important to understand Deaf Culture and the differences in social customs when communicating in a different language.
References
Deaf World: A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook by Lois Bragg
For Hearing People Only by Linda Levitan
Interpersonal Communication Second Edition by Kory Floyd
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Co-cultures and How Culture Affects Communication
Walking through a spoken conversation
When it is necessary to walk through a conversation held by two hearing people, it is considered polite to wait for the conversation to pause, pass through quickly or duck down, and then apologize for interrupting the conversation. All of these things might be considered rude or annoying to two Deaf people mid-conversation.
Walking through a signed conversation
Watching a signed conversation to wait for a pause would be considered eaves-dropping, and making a scene while passing through is distracting. When passing through a signed conversation, it is polite to just walk right through at a normal pace and, if known, casually making the sign for “excuse me”.
Deaf Community
How Culture Affects Communication
Members seize opportunities to build relationships with other individuals with hearing loss despite any differences in their country of origin, political or religious views
Differences in culture can cause misunderstandings, actions that are normal or polite in one community might be considered rude in another. The Deaf community has several social customs that differ from the hearing community.
Co-Cultures
groups of people who share mutual interests or characteristics other than their national citizenship.
Big "D" and little "d"
In the Deaf community, there is a difference when using the word deaf with a lowercase “d” and Deaf with an uppercase “D”.
- deaf (with a lowercase "d") refers to the condition of partially or completely lacking in the sense of hearing
- Deaf (with an uppercase "D") refers to a person or group that embraces the cultural norms, beliefs, and values of the Deaf Community.
Deaf Culture
This term encompasses the social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values and shared institutions of communities that are affected by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication