The serious side: Signmark, real name Marko Vuoriheimo, wants people to think carefully about how they see deaf people: are they disabled, or part of a linguistic minority? After all, he says, isn't being deaf in the hearing world a bit like being a Brit in Finland and not knowing the local language – and then needing an interpreter to communicate? Members of a club for deaf people in Finland in the 1930s:
Ban Ki-moon Akizungumza kwenye mhadhara wa chuo kikuu cha Oxoford Ban amerejelea kubainisha misingi ya uundwaji wa Umoja wa Mataifa akisema kuwa umoja huo unatambua haki na wajibu uliopo kwa mamlaka za dola ambazo zinapaswa kuwalinda na kuwatetea wananchi wake dhidi ya matukio kama vita, uonevu na mahijaji mengine ya kibinadamu, lakini inapofika pahala hayo yanapuuzwa,jumuiya za kimataifa zinawajibika kuingilia kati.