Özlem Cekic : Why I have coffee with people who send me hate mail

Özlem Cekic at We the Future  (transcript)
Why I have coffee with people who send me hate mail
Summary
This is a story that gives me courage really and I knew about differences of culture between other countries and Japan. It's that to have or try to have conversations and discussions even with people who send you hate mail.  In Japan, people don't feel that conversations and discussions are important thus in classes of schools, students do only learning, thinking and memorizing something.
However, it won't lead to creating a better world.  The speaker tells us that conversation is the most difficult thing in a democracy and also the most important.
Thus she challenges it. She tries to have coffee even with people who send her hete mail. And then she realized that people who send her hate mail just felt that she is a strange and scary person. Against hate mails, not defeat but use kindness, confidence, and courage.
She goes to their house with those and food to have conversations. When they eat together, it must be easier to find what they have in common and make people together.

Words in this story
conviction /noun/ belief, conviction, faith
demonize /verb/ portray as wicked and threatening.
common /adj/  usual, ordinary, familiar, regular, something shared