A grant of $225,00 to do research upon Deafhood

A grant of nearly £140,000 ($225,000 US dollars) by the Leverhulme Trust has been awarded to the University of Bristol’s Centre for Deaf Studies (CDS) in United Kingdom to conduct research upon the new concept of "Deafhood." It will examine the Deaf people's concerns upon the advancement of Genetic technology.

I am quite curious to see what CDS will come up with. This is an exciting century for all of us. Technology and Medicine are starting to merge into a new field of science and it will eventually transform the way we live. It won't be long before we can actually FIX genetic defects....

Now the question is :

Should the Deaf communities across the world embrace the new changes or fear it?

Some definitions you may need to know: before you can read and understand the article.

• Deafhood => the identify of being d/Deaf culturally than just a person with hearing loss.
• Hegemonic / hegemony => the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others;
• In this example : Medical deaf vs Cultural Deaf (or Hearing vs Deaf)
• Eugenicist / eugenics => the study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans, with the aim of improving the species.
• "Survival of Fittest" where we pick "perfect" human beings to make the best, strongest, smartest babies.

Article : Research study to examine genetics, power and Deafhood

Deaf Mugger

Everyone GOTTA SEE THIS!!!!!! It's hilarious!

The paradox about this is

I am not fully familiar with the laws in United Kingdom, but I think there is a law in UK where the government is required to provide sign language interpreters to any Deaf individuals and pay for it (through taxes). There are no agencies or such. All the interpreters work for the government, thus they are employees of the British Government. So we have a Deaf mugger who requests an interpreter to help him to break the law.....

(Laughing out loud) You gotta love the irony! Enjoy the video!