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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (54779)8/17/2002 8:27:48 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Cosmic and I have been talking about Sound and Fury ever since we saw it this morning. In the movie there is a little girl whose deaf parents decide not to give her a cochlear implant because they don't want her to miss out on "deaf culture". But what you find out that means is- they don't want to be all alone. The deaf adults say "Who will be like us if everyone gets cochlear implants?"

The obvious response seemed to me- who would be in an iron lung to preserve polio culture? Who would be paralyzed to preserve paraplegic culture? If you can have your body fully functioning, WHY would you choose not to? And sadly, they chose this for a 4 year old. It seemed terribly hard to me. Another brother in the family got a cochlear infant for one of his children. It was amazing to see the child's ears hear the first time. It was beautiful.

I cannot imagine you would find anyone to give up their hearing so they could be part of "deaf culture". And, essentially, one set of parents in the film has taken the option of hearing away from their daughter- because if the implants are not done when the child is young, they never get natural speech.

Amazing documentary. Hard to watch- for me- because I really wanted the little girl to get the implants, and she doesn't.
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