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Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:255] Re: deafness as culture: a question I
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I understand what Sue says about living "between cultures" and not
necessarily remaining in your culture-of-birth,
but with the Pakistani and Hispanic examples she mentions, it seems to me
that the culture-change involved free will: a *choice* to leave one's
birth-culture, and/or a *choice* to raise one's own children (or other's
children, if one teaches) outside of their birth-culture.
As I understand it (please correct me if I err), those regarding deafness as
cultural consider that a child born deaf to hearing parents doesn't choose
to leave a culture that s/he originally belonged to (and that his/her
parents belong to):
they consider that s/he *always* belonged (presumably from conception)
to another culture, regardless of his/her choices/decisions or anyone
else's.
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