7.29.2018

Rebeca Hwang :The power of diversity within yourself


Rebeca Hwang at TED2018
The power of diversity within yourself  (transcript)
Summary
I thought at first that the speaker was Japanese because she looked like one of my friends. That's why I chose the article.
She was troubled about her identity and where her home was because she was born in Korea, grew up in Argentina and learned in the United States. Additionally, she was said to be Japanese from her Korean friends when she went to Korea.

I think that is why we don't like a person who is different from us.

Korean receives an education that Japanese is a bad person, thus Korean doesn't really like Japanese. The words that the speaker received must be insulting words, she explained that she had big eyes and her reaction was a foreign body language, though.
Almost all Japanese won't like Asian, Japanese is Asian, though. So am I. What I don't like is that people say to me that I am Asian or yellow.

And then, people will feel envious. I feel envious of her who speaks not only English but also Spanish and Korean and who has a Danish husband and a child who speaks four languages.

Envy always will turn heat. People can't agree with it and can't embrace differences. 

However, she was strong. She decided to embrace all of the different versions of herself.
Our world is increasingly global today. It might not need to quest your identity and tribe.

What we have to find is diversity and what we have to have is a lot of doors.

Diversity within yourself is really powerful that not only Japanese people but all people in the world need. It must be the power that the problem of admitting immigrants can be solved.

P.S. Is her sentence correct? 
"She was too Korean to be Argentinian, but too Argentinian to be Korean".
If it’s right, I might want to say that I'm too Japanese to change others or to speak English frequently...

Words in this story
insulting / disrespectful or scornfully abusive.
multiplicity /noun/ a large number.
betray / expose (one's country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy.
pivotal /adj/  central, crucial, vital
obscure /adj/  unclear, uncertain, unknown, in doubt, doubtful

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