can anyone give me examples of people who have tried to suppress deaf culture over the years? In america and around the world! Thanks!
2007-10-28 04:03:25 · 6 answers · asked by Vlad 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ People with Disabilities
Hearing people who do not employ people just because they are deaf.
My wife is born deaf and I am hearing, thank you very much! After living in hearing culture all of my live, I see the total ignorance and pure idiocy in which hearing culture WALLOWS like a dirty pig and I am often feel ashamed of the hideous noise that hearing so-called "normal" culture propagates in the name of entertainment and culture these days.
If Britney Spears and her ilk are representative of the kind of culture hearing youth should be inspired by, then Beam me up Mr. Scott - there is no intelligent life on this planet.
2007-10-28 15:56:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most famous example is Alexander Graham Bell (yes--the inentor of the telephone) who advocated prohibiting Deaf people from marrying because they would produce "an inferior species of human."
To get the full story of the campaign against deaf people from the late 19th century through to the present, try these two books:
"Forbidden Signs"--Doug Baynton
"Deaf History Unveailed"--van Cleeve.
2007-10-28 05:29:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some great examples of it if you look under Eugenics. Several countries believed selective breeding would be the answer to suppress deafness as a genetic trait.
2007-10-29 19:39:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not allowing children who can communicate in sign language use it.
Not allowing sign language to be considered a second language for school credit.
Not funding Deaf schools.
2007-10-28 08:41:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why does anyone want to be part of deaf culture? I don't get it!
2007-10-28 13:31:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Hitler thought any disability was a death sentence
2007-10-29 14:22:41 · answer #6 · answered by victor 7707 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋