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Originally Posted by RilianSharp
This should be bi-lingual country.
Then, there would not be separate deaf and hearing culture but one american culture. This would be good for especially children deaf of hearing parents and hearing children of deaf parents.
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Actually, bilingualism does not result in assimilation of one culture into another. Because the two lanugages are used (bilingual) two cultures are maintained (bicultural). One only ends up with a single culture when those with other languages, values, and norms are forced to assimilate into the majority culture, and all become unilingual.