Deaf Culture
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Deaf Culture
Deaf Culture Deaf people, like hearing people have their own culture. Not only do they have there own language but a separate culture then hearing people. The deaf culture is very important to the deaf community. Many people of the hearing community might think of a deaf person as "handicapped" but if you called a deaf person this, they would be offended. Deaf people do not think of them self as disabled or handicapped. They prefer to call them self's by this only for social, political, or economical needs. Many hearing people think that deaf people should learn to lip-read and learn how to speak so hearing people can understand them. Deaf people like to think of them selves as having nothing more then a language barrier, such as we would think for someone who spoke Spanish instead of English. Also phrases such as "deaf and dumb" and "deaf and mute" and "hearing impaired" are considered offensive to many people in the deaf community. Hard of hearing or just Deaf are preferred by most deaf people...