Deaf Culture are the bonds that hold Deaf people together.
(Bahan, Hoffmeister, & Lane, 1996)
(Bahan, Hoffmeister, & Lane, 1996)
Fig. 4
Included in Deaf Culture are history, social beliefs, behaviours, values, literary traditions, art, and shared institutions of Deaf communities. Worldwide, Deaf people cannot be defined by one culture. Different communities share different values and use different sign language. Deaf individuals also have cultural identities such as their nationality, education, race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual orientation which make the whole community extremely diverse. "For unlike other cultures, Deaf culture is not associated with a single place, a "native land"; rather it is a culture based on relationships among people for whom a number of places and associations may provide a common ground." (Bahan et al., 1996)