(Laughter) And as I plunged deeper and deeper into the Deaf world, I became convinced that Deafness was a culture and that the people in the Deaf world who said, "We don't lack hearing; we have membership in a culture," were saying something that was viable.
(Rires) Alors que je me plongeais de plus en plus  dans le monde des sourds, je suis devenu convaincu  que la surdité était une culture et que les gens du monde  des sourds qui disaient, « Nous ne sommes pas malentendants,  nous sommes membres d'une culture, » disaient quelque chose de viable.