My research question to help me study the economic principle is “What is the Deaf community/Deaf culture?”
The article published in Deaf Hear titled “What is Deaf Culture?” demonstrates this economic principle by showing what a culture is, what the main focal points of deaf culture are, and what deaf communities are.
First, the article defines a culture as, “Culture may be defined as patterns, traits, products, attitudes, and intellectual / artistic activity associated with a population”. So this can be a common style of dressing, or a different language. There are thousands of different cultures all across the globe from easy topics like deaf culture, or there are more serious cultures like rape culture.
Second, The article explains what characteristics in the deaf community make it a culture. Some of them are, the use of sign language, Deaf Art, Deaf Theatre, Deaf Humour, Deaf Folklore, Deaf Organisations and, Deaf History. Each of these small defining points in the deaf communities around the world, make it into a larger culture.
Third, a Deaf community is similar to Deaf culture, but on a smaller scale. There are many Deaf communities in the Chicago-land area and the closest being a small community of Hinsdale South High School students and teachers. Some of my best friends have been made through connections I have in the Deaf community at south.
In my next blog post I will research the question: What are different ways Deaf people have adapted over the years?
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