5. many people in the deaf community view deafness as a different way of experiencing the world, rather than as a disability. however, in mainstream american culture, being deaf or hard of hearing is technically a disability that is protected by the americans with disabilities act. how might this difference in the view of deafness between deaf people and others in the larger culture be problematic?

The pathologic view tends to look at deafness as a disability that can be corrected via medical treatment so the deaf person is "normalized." In contrast, the cultural view embraces the identity of being deaf but does not necessarily reject medical aid.

answer: we can define a cultural region as a section of a land with cultural elements like religion, language, cuisine or architecture. cultural regions are different because its land for example can vary in size of few square miles to millions. they can also form cultural boundaries.

moreover cultural regions can be organized due to less difference between the same ethnic group. we can say also that exist three types of cultural regions such as the formal, functional and vernacular ones. for istance the formal regions refers to sharing cultural traits of people like religion or languages.

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