6.09.2019

Eric Liuat : How to revive your belief in democracy


Eric LiuatTED2019  (transcript)
How to revive your belief in democracy
Summary
I thought that it's dangerous to have biases for understanding something because I didn't understand the article first.
The biases are that the speaker is Chinese and there are some difficult words that are not accepted easily even if those are written in Japanese. Those are, for example, "Civic Saturday", " Civic religion" and so on.  It's because a people's question is not how to revive their belief in democracy but how to revive their money in business probably.  (I thought that a really nice idea hit on me and my English skill might be improving! )
However, people must now lose many interests for comfortable spending but it's only used by the internet.
First, there must be a better society and second, there must be a better belief. Even small groups and communities will help you.
Belief is an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.
Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
Civic Saturday is to nurture a spirit of shared purpose.
Civil religion seems to be the implicit religious values of a nation, as expressed through public rituals, symbols, and countries having a civil religion seems to be said France, South Korea, and the former Soviet Union.
I think that it will be more simple to tell for Japanese people that having a little bit of interest for your better life. Please knock on the doors which are little communities. You can find your leaders or you might be a leader for something and it's a start for democracy.
It's said often that participating is important also.

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