What are the cultural and social norms in Deaf culture?

What norms, values, or symbols that are used in american culture that mean something different in anotther?

• what are some norms, values, or symbols that are used in american culture that mean something different in anotther? like showing the soles of shoes in the middle east.

• Answer:

  The "Swastika" is a symbol used by Native Americans (And Asians) to mean Peace... You know what it means everywhere else... The Swastika http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika The swastika (from Sanskrit svástika) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing (卐) form or its mirrored left-facing (卍) form. Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates from the Neolithic period and was first found in the Indus Valley Civilization of the Indian Subcontinent. It even occurs today in the modern day culture of India, sometimes as a geometrical motif and sometimes as a religious symbol. It also remains widely used in Eastern religions / Dharmic religion such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Though once commonly used all over much of the world, the symbol has become stigmatized and to some extent taboo in the Western world because of its iconic usage by Nazi Germany, and it has notably been outlawed in Germany if used as a symbol of Nazism (usage of the sign by religious groups is tolerated). Many modern political extremists and neo-nazi groups such as Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging , the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and Russian National Unity use stylised swastikas or similar symbols.