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Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:245] Re: deafness as culture: a question I need
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I think one can be a part of several different cultures. I am white and
my children, adopted as infants, are black. They feel at home and at ease
and a part of both cultures. We conscientiously worked at providing them
with exposure to people and experiences of both cultures as they grew up
by where we chose to live and the adult friends that we had. My children
did the rest in choosing the friends and experiences they wished to
include in their lives, and both tell me it is an advantage to feel at
ease in both cultures.
Donna Brian, Program Coordinator
SLINCS--The southern Hub of the National Institute for Literacy's
comprehensive communication and information system
<http://slincs.coe.utk.edu/>
Center for Literacy Studies at The University of Tennessee
600 Henley Street, Suite 312, Knoxville, TN 37996-4135
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djgbrian@cls.coe.utk.edu
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Kate Gladstone & Andrew S. Haber wrote:
> I suppose that, somewhere at the root of my feeling bothered over the
> "deafness as culture" position, there lies the fact that this position puts
> parents and children in different cultures, which seems unlike "culture" as
> we usually think of it.
>
> E.g., consider other things that we think of as "culture":
>
> we expect that people of Hispanic culture come from families of Hispanic
> culture, and will in turn - if they start families - start families of
> Hispanic culture ...
>
> similarly for most of the entities that we think of as "culture." Most of us
> would find it very strange, at the least, to meet someone who said "I am of
> Hispanic culture, but my parents and grandparents, my brothers, my sisters,
> my cousins and my children and grandchildren are not: I am the only person
> in my family who belongs to my culture" ...
>
> yet, if we consider deafness as a culture, then it seems we find exactly
> this situation.
>
> I don't know (and would like to know very much) how members of, say,
> Hispanic culture (or other cultures with close family ties - especially
> extended-family ties) respond when a Hispanic person born deaf decides to
> culturally class him/herself with other deaf people:
> in other words, when such a person decides that s/he does not (and never
> did) belong to the same culture as the rest of his/her family.
>
> Can anyone inform me on this matter?
>
>
> Yours for better letters,
> Kate Gladstone - Handwriting Repair
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