(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.
[צחוק] וככל שצללתי עמוק יותר לתוך עולם החירשים, הלכתי והשתכנעתי שהחירשות היא תרבות ושהאנשים בעולם החירשים, שאמרו, "איננו כבדי שמיעה אלא חברים בתרבות מסוימת," אמרו משהו שעומד בזכות עצמו.