somedeafdudefromPNW
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Nowhere did I say you are unhappy with your implants. I am just saying your backhand attempt at putting down Deaf culture in rather snide attempts, in which you say you're not, but in actuality you are, that you have an agenda as result of bad experiences prior to your implants. Obviously you are happy with the life you have now, but you have unresolved issues with your past, otherwise these attempts to dismiss other people's views of the world would not exist in your posts.
Most cultures are derived from language divisions and barriers. Have you noticed as the number of languages dwindled around the world, thanks to Anglo-American imperialist export of the English language, individualistic cultures are rapidly melting into one big pot? Once the language goes, soon the culture disappears as well. This is evident among the aboriginals of the Americas, the aboriginals of the Far East, among the diverse groups of people in Southeast Asia, in India and in Africa. It is rather depressing languages and cultures are being lost, however that is because everyone is conforming to one standard.
With any minority groups, there will always have the "us versus them" mentality. If you are a privileged member of society, you would not understand this mentality. As someone who remembered what being poor is like, of a prosecuted religious order, being picked up for my family's unusual accent, as someone who grew up a blue-collared family, as someone who grew up with English and American Sign Language in a bilingual setting, and someone who is blind, there are communities in which everyone identify with: the blind community, the deaf community, the impoverished community, the Mennonite community, the Slavic community, the Albertan community, the western Canadian society, Canadian society, the North American entity. If you cannot understand these divisions and identities that enable people to call a group of people "a community" or "a society," then maybe, you are looking at things too scientifically?
Usually I only see the mentality you have displayed in your posts from undergraduates who are majoring in engineering or in the hard sciences; all I am asking is to shift your view to see things from a humanitarian view-- not one of a scientific.
Most cultures are derived from language divisions and barriers. Have you noticed as the number of languages dwindled around the world, thanks to Anglo-American imperialist export of the English language, individualistic cultures are rapidly melting into one big pot? Once the language goes, soon the culture disappears as well. This is evident among the aboriginals of the Americas, the aboriginals of the Far East, among the diverse groups of people in Southeast Asia, in India and in Africa. It is rather depressing languages and cultures are being lost, however that is because everyone is conforming to one standard.
With any minority groups, there will always have the "us versus them" mentality. If you are a privileged member of society, you would not understand this mentality. As someone who remembered what being poor is like, of a prosecuted religious order, being picked up for my family's unusual accent, as someone who grew up a blue-collared family, as someone who grew up with English and American Sign Language in a bilingual setting, and someone who is blind, there are communities in which everyone identify with: the blind community, the deaf community, the impoverished community, the Mennonite community, the Slavic community, the Albertan community, the western Canadian society, Canadian society, the North American entity. If you cannot understand these divisions and identities that enable people to call a group of people "a community" or "a society," then maybe, you are looking at things too scientifically?
Usually I only see the mentality you have displayed in your posts from undergraduates who are majoring in engineering or in the hard sciences; all I am asking is to shift your view to see things from a humanitarian view-- not one of a scientific.
