Deaf People Film Analysis
I really enjoyed watching this film, and I learned alot about the deaf community that I didnt know before, as well as how to interact with people that are apart of this community. I didnt realize how much prejudiceness, discrimination, and hatred people apart of this community faced. In a way, it is similar to any other minority group that is discrimted against.In 1975, the term audism was created which gave this type of opression a formal name. Audism is the notion that someone who can hear is superior to someone who cannot.While the term is relatively new, the oppression goes back thousands of years. For thousands of years members of the deaf community was seen as an outgroup.
One aspect that was discussed heavily in the video was deaf children being born into a hearing family …show more content…
Eugenics worked to identify a pure genetic race . They try to disallow people they saw as inferior from enetring the gene pool. Deaf people during the World War 2 era were thought to be a burden that depended too heavily on society. They oftentimes inadvertenly stopped them from reproducing, as they were concerned this could create deaf children. While sterlization laws didnt include deaf people, there are many accounts of families who sterlizied their children. Euginics was finally discarded , but some people believe that their goals still remain today.
During the early rise of deaf education, the use of sign language was seena s inferior. Those who spoke really well recieved more positive attention then those who used sign as a form of communication.
This video helped me to get a better understanding and gave me more insight on the deaf community. I never realized the opression that people of this community faced. Being a minority, I know what it feels like to be treated as if you are inferior. I now know some of the basis of interacting with people in this community, and can help be apart of the soution instead of the
One aspect that was discussed heavily in the video was deaf children being born into a hearing family …show more content…
Eugenics worked to identify a pure genetic race . They try to disallow people they saw as inferior from enetring the gene pool. Deaf people during the World War 2 era were thought to be a burden that depended too heavily on society. They oftentimes inadvertenly stopped them from reproducing, as they were concerned this could create deaf children. While sterlization laws didnt include deaf people, there are many accounts of families who sterlizied their children. Euginics was finally discarded , but some people believe that their goals still remain today.
During the early rise of deaf education, the use of sign language was seena s inferior. Those who spoke really well recieved more positive attention then those who used sign as a form of communication.
This video helped me to get a better understanding and gave me more insight on the deaf community. I never realized the opression that people of this community faced. Being a minority, I know what it feels like to be treated as if you are inferior. I now know some of the basis of interacting with people in this community, and can help be apart of the soution instead of the