12.09.2016

Monica Lewinsky: The price of shame


TED 2015
Monica Lewinsky: The price of shame (script)
Summary
When you hear the word "culture",  you probably think about music, art and something that you can be proud of. However, culture includes the definition of habits, traditions, and beliefs. Now, our world has the internet. It's created a lot of things. Among them, culture of humiliation has been created unintentionally. So we don't notice that people's private words, actions, conversations or photos are stolen without consent, and it's made them public without compassion. It's not related to either the fact that someone actually makes a mistake, or whether the person who is famous.
Further, online and technology help make them a public shame . It's unlimitedly and permanently accessible and traffics on the website also. It becomes cyber bullying that leads to excruciating and suicidal tendencies but it numbly continues.
The internet should be a great technology, creating wonderful connection with people and the place where can foster minority influence, not the place  where it spreads culture of humiliation.
There is lack of compassion on not only online but also offline. There is no person who doesn't make a mistake. Anyone even who is suffering from shame and public humiliation deserve compassion. We have to change our world to have a more compassionate world.
Words in this story
consent /  agreement, assent, acceptance, approval
compassion /  pity, sympathy, empathy
foster / cultivate
humiliation / stigma, embarrassment, mortification, shame
compassion /  empathy,
traffic / deal or trade in something illegal.
public / done, perceived, or existing in open view.

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