Can Deaf People Hear AND Still Have a Deaf Culture?
at About.com: Deaf ness. Sure, it’s a fair question, but can we please stop using deaf to mean Deaf and deaf! Can we start using the terms in their proper context. Yes, Rachel of Cochlear Implant Online, I am referring to you too. Deaf means Deaf people, culture, community and sign language; and deaf [notice the little d now] means all the rest of you minions who prefer to spend their time chasing, tuning, comparing, and trading frequencies: hiss, zzzzz, pop, fart! Anyway, I was moved to leave a comment in reply to the question: Can Deaf People Hear AND Still Have a Deaf Culture? To save you the time and click to go there, I have reprinted it below: Let’s get our definitions correct. There is no deaf culture, it is essentially a hearing one. But there is a Deaf culture. So stop putting all Deaf and deaf people under the one term: deaf. We are not all the same. Now ask the question again! By the way, I may have jumped the gun, regarding the misuse of the words Deaf and deaf [I do re-rea
