Rose Immortal
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This isn't flamebait, I promise...I just want to get a feel for how you guys define this, because it's helpful to understanding how you think of Deaf culture.
In your minds, what is it that creates a culture and defines it as separate from others around it? Religion? Nationality? Language? All of the above? None of the above?
How do you define the difference between a community and a culture? When does something cross the line from one into the other? For instance, take the visually-impaired. Or Southerners (U.S.). Would you identify them as a community or a culture, and why?
If you believe that there can be cultures within cultures, then how do you rank them in importance to you? Example: I am an American first, and then a Southerner. This is important because when people ranked those two the other way around, we had the Civil War.
In your minds, what is it that creates a culture and defines it as separate from others around it? Religion? Nationality? Language? All of the above? None of the above?
How do you define the difference between a community and a culture? When does something cross the line from one into the other? For instance, take the visually-impaired. Or Southerners (U.S.). Would you identify them as a community or a culture, and why?
If you believe that there can be cultures within cultures, then how do you rank them in importance to you? Example: I am an American first, and then a Southerner. This is important because when people ranked those two the other way around, we had the Civil War.