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Introduction to Deaf Culture Midterm Take Home Exam
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Week 1-7
100 points
1. What is the difference between Capital ‘D’ Deaf and lower case ‘d’ deaf?
2. What is the percentage of deaf people born into hearing families? And what percentage of those deaf people belong to Deaf Culture?
3. Use #2 for this question. How does this affect how a deaf person learns about culture identity, and where do they learn it if not from their parents?
4. What is the difference between the pathological/medical and the cultural view of Deaf people? Why is your view point important when communicating with Deaf people?
5. What is audism? What can it be compared to?
6. How do Deaf Culture and the Deaf Community differ?
7. Why are Stateschools important to the Deaf Community/Culture?
8. What are the characteristics of a culture? What are three characteristics of Deaf culture that make it unique?
9. What do Deaf people value the most in their Culture?
10. What are some stereotypes vs. cultural values of Deaf and American Culture?Provide an example from class lectures, short video clips, or blog assignments.
11. List three culture differences between American Culture and Deaf Culture. Provide an example from class lectures, short video clips, or blog assignments.
12. What is the difference between a collectivist and individualist culture and where does Deaf culture fall? Give examples 2 examples that we have seen in class.
13. What does time orientation mean to Deaf people?Provide an example from class lectures, short video clips, or blog assignments.
14. When was the ‘Golden Age’ and the ‘Dark Age’ of Deaf Culture? Is Deaf Culture past, present or future oriented?Provide an example from class lectures, short video clips, or blog assignments.
15. How can hearing people be part of the Deaf Community? First and foremost, a hearing person must do what to be accepted as part of the community?
16. What is the difference between a ‘high context culture’ and a ‘low context culture,’ and where does ASL fall and why?Provide an example from class lectures, short video clips, or blog assignments.
17. What are the ‘four avenues’ of membership to Deaf Culture? Explain each.
18. What are the difference between the development of friendships within the Deaf Community vs. friendships between hearing people? Provide an example from class lectures, short video clips, or blog assignments.
19. Why is Alexander Graham Bell considered the “Boogie Man” in the Deaf community?
20. Create a question from you text that you feel is valuable for the hearing community to know and answer it.
