If we want to understand how subcultures can isolate and insulate themselves, becoming perverse enclaves interested in nothing but their own perspectives, we could learn a lot by what has happened in a certain segment of the deaf community. Jane K. Fernandes' job as president of Galludet University, the nation's only liberal arts college for the deaf, is in jeopardy, apparently because she is "not deaf enough":
"There's a kind of perfect deaf person," said Fernandes, who described that as someone who is born deaf to deaf parents, learns ASL at home, attends deaf schools, marries a deaf person and has deaf children. "People like that will remain the core of the university."
