Big Ocean Interview w/ Eli (Uncut: 43 Minutes)
Added 2024-04-28 18:36:56 +0000 UTCMore Big Ocean! Wanted to check out another interview and thought it'd be cool for my friend Eli to check out and get his thoughts. We got into some different discussions.
Link: https://youtu.be/0M-gubgNJXQ
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44 year old deaf/hearing Impaired. because I'm completely deaf in one ear and wear hearing aid in the other, so I have both, I was born deaf, (profoundly hearing loss and severely hearing loss is the technical term i think thought I cannot remember in which ear lol ) wore my first hearing aid at the age of 1 in both ears but by the time I was 12/13 I stopped wearing on my right ear because it wasn't helping at all, realising it was not processing sounds in that ear at all. I did try out the cochlear in later in life (age 24) but after a year, it did not help at all it was a 50/50 chance I took that, it only creates viberations feelings in that ear which made me feel nauseous. I am a lip reader and I do speak, but I never really learned sign language, I only knows the Australian sign language of the alphabet yes/no and numbers that's it. Auslan is more of common sign language is used by most deaf community here in Australia.
Erin Kemble
2024-04-29 11:18:12 +0000 UTCSo this interview was one of their big debut interviews- so designed to be one of the first chances the public get to hear and know the Big Ocean members. It makes sense it might be a little awkward, but I would imagine they would have been briefed on the types of questions and topics so their company could also help them understand how to present themselves and they had to best chance to prepare. These boys all use lipreading which can be very tiring. Preparing as much in advance will probably help them to be comfortable. I think the channel they were interviewing with also has a partly international audience hence the English element. if you note the credits the interviewer is cited as one of the translators as well. From what I understand Korean society is not very inclusive of difference or disability. Obviously that is a very broad generalisation and there are generational differences. But I think there is a mindset that can be common that a disability is a misfortune. I know the members have all spoken about experiencing bullying and they're all prepared to receive negative comments as they debut. You might be interested to watch the kdrama Extraordinary Attorney Woo which has an autistic main character and shows some of the attitudes that can be experienced around disability. Big Ocean's debut is really exciting for me. Firstly I think they're great guys who really work hard and deserve to live their dreams. But as a person categorised as 'disabled' myself, I studied disability representation in media in my Masters dissertation and it is incredibly powerful. Because disabled people are a minority a lot of non-disabled people will learn about and have exposure to disability mostly through media- which is why good representation is incredibly important. Parastar Entertainment (their label) seem to be very aware of this and are actively trying to make a successful group as a tool to advance awareness and perception of disabilities in society. Art changes the world all the time, I'm excited to see these boys pursue their art self-aware of the power it holds to make change.
Ixaala
2024-04-28 20:43:38 +0000 UTCAs a whole, North America is far more accommodating to those with disabilities than in South Korea. So their debut is huge, and I think most of their success will be from international audiences, which is why they had English questions and subtitles - because we are far more embracing and accepting and likely to support them immediately.
Kacey Miller
2024-04-28 19:26:51 +0000 UTC
