There has been controversy at some universities about allowing fluency in sign language to fulfill a second-language requirement for an undergraduate degree. What is your opinion?

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This discusses fluency in sign language , particularly the American Sign Language , as a fulfillment of the second-language requirement for undergraduate students . This is due to the fact that this student believes that second language requirement exposes the student to cultures and languages that are different from his or her own

This student would like to tackle first the deaf people who belong to the Deaf community . According to Padden , a culture is a group of people with their

own language , values , rules for behavior , and traditions (Paroline , 2008 . A person may be born into a culture where he /she is brought up according to the values of the culture with his personality and behavior shaped by his cultural values . Or a person may also grow up in one culture and later learn the language , values and practices of a different such as what happens to deaf people . Therefore deaf people have their own community which is called the Deaf community

Deaf people have their own set of values , rules and traditions that are different from typical American values . Example of these differences is that typical Americans communicate through speech , but deaf people use sign language because speaking is looked up negatively . Another example is staring . With typical American , staring is considered rude and is not maintained during the entire conversations . In Deaf community , it is rude to break eye contact with the one the deaf is communicating when having conversation...