American Deaf Culture's Origin, Connotation, Practice And Limitation

This article reviews the origin of American Deaf Culture ,then it infers Deaf Culture is incentived by Black People'Civil Rights movement, and that is the response to Mainstreaming movement which spings up in 1970s.Under the concept of Deaf Culture,deafness is not a disability that needs to be fixed.Deaf culturists feels that society not focus on a cure for deafness but should accept Deaf pepople as a cultural minority and respect their right to live as Deaf persons.This'culture'means not only cultural values but also cultural group. Deaf Culture is a idea of education that values the inportance of education to keep deaf people'language ,to transmit their tradition and develope their culture .It opposes Oralism ,Mainstreaming movement and cochlea implant and insists that let deaf children enter in seperate deaf school and accept bilingual-biculture education. Besides , Deaf Culture is a ideology that believes deaf group is a minority. Deaf culturists strive lots of politics for deaf group'interests. Although Deaf Culture makes society pay more attention to care about deaf people and brings the latter more hopes , it also has some limitation: it is based on a unstable culture relativism theory; it violates deaf individual's freedom, it cannot help deaf people socialize into their families and other hearing people.