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I think that the main reason that deaf culture is a thing (in a way that blind culture doesn't really exist) is that they need to speak a particular language with each other. American Sign Language is pretty much not related to English, and so it's difficult to communicate with hearing people without using a foreign language.
Blind people can communicate with everyone else perfectly fine, they just can't see,