Five Elements Of Deaf Culture Essay
Before you learn about one of the five elements of Deaf culture, what did you think/assume about the element? Group Norms to me are the unspoken and often unwritten set of informal rules that shape the behaviors of individuals in a group. These rules would be passed down from one generation to another or they could be taught/reinforced by school teachers, preacher, or other individual who would have an influence on younger generations. Without groups norms individuals would have no understanding of how to act in social situations.
After you learn about one of the five elements of Deaf culture, what did you find or amaze about the element? After learning about Group Norms I realize they are very close to the Rules of Social Behaviors. …show more content…
163-164 in ADC where it talked about majority oppression was interesting. I know that many minority groups in the US are treated unfairly but I had not connected them as the book states on page 163. “The Deaf community has had to face many of the same linguistic and cultural pressures that various other minority groups in the U.S. have had to face: being viewed as inferior by the majority culture, schooling in an institutional setting, almost exclusive instruction under majority group teachers, discrimination in an exclusion from teacher training programs, forced instruction in the majority language, the prohibition of the minority language in the school, etc.” However the Deaf community faced additional pressure then the other groups. Such as “1. The Deaf community has had a more difficult time overcoming inferiority stereotyping by the majority culture. 2. In the Deaf community less than ten percent of Deaf children have Deaf parents. 3. The primary language of the Deaf community differs not only in code structure but in channel structure from the majority language.” This causing language oppression to be doubly sever for Deaf people. I thought it was interesting to see how the Deaf community and other minority groups are
After you learn about one of the five elements of Deaf culture, what did you find or amaze about the element? After learning about Group Norms I realize they are very close to the Rules of Social Behaviors. …show more content…
163-164 in ADC where it talked about majority oppression was interesting. I know that many minority groups in the US are treated unfairly but I had not connected them as the book states on page 163. “The Deaf community has had to face many of the same linguistic and cultural pressures that various other minority groups in the U.S. have had to face: being viewed as inferior by the majority culture, schooling in an institutional setting, almost exclusive instruction under majority group teachers, discrimination in an exclusion from teacher training programs, forced instruction in the majority language, the prohibition of the minority language in the school, etc.” However the Deaf community faced additional pressure then the other groups. Such as “1. The Deaf community has had a more difficult time overcoming inferiority stereotyping by the majority culture. 2. In the Deaf community less than ten percent of Deaf children have Deaf parents. 3. The primary language of the Deaf community differs not only in code structure but in channel structure from the majority language.” This causing language oppression to be doubly sever for Deaf people. I thought it was interesting to see how the Deaf community and other minority groups are