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In American sign language you would say bookcase, one book like that.
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It is interesting that American Sign Language adds something that English does not tell in that sentence. That shape. It does describe one book. But it also describes what position it's in. It's not flat or straight up but it's leaning. It's interesting.
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And culture, what is that? For example, the deaf culture requires eye contact while communicating. While hearing people tend to accept looking away while they are communicating.
Because if you look away while I'm talking it's very impolite. While hearing people tend to think that it's not polite to keep staring, looking at the other person.

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Remember that I said there are two sides to deafness. Both happen at the same time. You cannot just look at deaf culture and the language and forget that we have a hearing loss. We know we have a hearing loss because that loss has been part of the culture arising in a language -- exciting. But some people look at the hearing loss only and that's sad.
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We should start to look at the other side, the cultural view, too. We have two poems here to show you what two people think deafness is about. What does deafness mean -- these two people talk about.
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The first one is called "Deafness," written by Jane Wilk.
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Deafness, not to hear music, but to hear emotions, and the swaying of
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