9.27.2020

Kiah Williams : You shouldn't have to choose between filling your prescriptions and paying bills

 Kiah Williams·TED2020

You shouldn’t have to choose between filling your prescriptions and paying bills

Summary

I had strongly believed that people were overdosing, though, it might be wrong.

The speaker tells us that many people die every month because they don’t take the medicines that they need. The new system that the speaker started paying attention to is that prescription drug prices is too high. 1) There are many surplus pills thrown away in some companies and it can be used yet. 2) By using smartphones, patients can register and access prescriptions for those medicines quickly, 3) and it's directly delivered to customers. They don’t need to go to hospitals and stores. 4) It leads to reducing prices.

To change the existing health care system is difficult and complex and the speaker’s new system does not pretend to have all of the answers to fix all of the problems in the health care system. Just people who are busy, give up getting medicines, but who need it to live.

9.26.2020

Barry Schwartz : What role does luck play in your life?

 

Privilege/Class/Social Inequalities Explained in a $100 Race - Please Watch to the End. Thanks.

Somehow, the speaker’s face this time reminded me of a video that l couldn’t watch through to the end. I thought that this must be the relation between luck, justice, and the lottery. I’ve heard that when we were born in Japan, it’s just by lottery.
With this, I think that what l have to do always.

Barry Schwartz·TED2020
What role does luck play in your life?
Summary
The speaker said that he told about luck and justice and the relation between them this time and he told that people hate the idea that really important things in life might happen by luck or chance. People also hate that really important things in our lives are not under our control, but it simply is the way things are.

College admissions, having this job, your marriage, and etc already is a lottery.
Acknowledge the importance of good fortune almost every one of our lives and we can see what we have to do. All people deserve meaningful and satisfying lives.

John Maeda : Designing for simplicity



Designing for simplicity

Summary

This was a little bit old story.

The speaker is Japanese-American with American by nationality. He is an artist, a designer, and published the book “The Law of Simplicity”. Every day, you must feel that the world is getting very complicated, however, when you can find simplicity, you will be really comfortable. He was used to stand the stage, he seemed to participate in four times, and his story was getting a laugh many times. Somehow, l was really glad that he grew up in a Tofu factory in Seattle. Tofu is Japanese healthy food made of Daizu-beans, though, it’s not famous more than Sushi. When the speaker explained his ten laws of simplicity, the sample was sushi, and it would be better because not only Americans but all people were interested in Sushi. However, many people seemed not to know about Tofu, unfortunately. I think that Tofu should be more famous because Vegans don’t eat fish, people want to be slim, it’s quite healthy food, thus Tofu is simple food.

In the dictionary, simplicity means the absence of complexity, and lack of sophistication, though, in his design and his book, it’s wrong. Simplicity isn’t created from absence and lacking. Simplicity is pursuing innocence, honesty, and sincerity.

The speaker seemed to teach design at University in Japan sometimes. Simplicity is not changing forever, isn’t it?


TEN LAWS

1 REDUCE The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

2 ORGANIZE Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

3 TIME Savings in time feel like simplicity.

4 LEARN Knowledge makes everything simpler.

5 DIFFERENCES Simplicity and complexity need each other.

6 CONTEXT What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral.

7 EMOTION More emotions are better than less.

8 TRUST In simplicity we trust.

9 FAILURE Some things can never be made simple.

10 THE ONE Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

THREE KEYS

1 AWAY More appears like less by simply moving it far, far away.

2 OPEN Openness simplifies complexity.

3 POWER Use less, gain more.

9.22.2020

Michael Sandel : The tyranny of merit

Michael Sandel·TED2020

The tyranny of merit

Summary

For me who is Japanese, it was a difficult story. The title means, l think, that the tyranny is the UN political system and it has huge merit, though, it creates polarization, disparity, and inequality. It’ll become more widely. The money people make is the measure of their contribution to the common good, though, it’s a mistake because of coronavirus. We should renew the dignity of work.

The speaker tells us that the spirit of humility is necessary and it’s the civic virtue.

P.S. Japanese people are always said that they are humble and it’s their virtue. In this coronavirus situation, the death rate was quite low. Although many Japanese people complain to the governments, Japanese people should have more national pride with courage and tackle to create a better world.

Words in this story

tyranny / cruel and oppressive government or rule

Debate practice 2

 Debate practice 2

Today’s topic is about office love, my side is a con, and I’m lucky. It’s because people who know me definitely say to me that l can marry my job. I love my job. That kind of me must be able to tell you correct negative answers.

Love is to feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone and something. The office is a room, set of rooms or building used as a place for commercial, professional, or bureaucratic WORK. Work is an activity involving mental and physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result to get income. Income is money received, especially on a regular basis for work or through investments, so your love should be for work, result, and income when you are in your office. 1)

In the office, work should be done efficiently to make a profit. Your love should be for efficient work and profit. 2)

Of course, you have to create better products, services for our customers. Your love should be for better product services and our customers. 3)

In the office, even if men approach you, they definitely approach women in order to win their love also!!

It’s not true love Just they want to hear something. You will be deceived and tricked by them. You will be broken-hearted by them and you won’t be able to be there. It’s impossible and difficult to love each other in the same office. Okay!? 



And then, you know that during the lockdown. Many mothers and fathers have to work at home. They were really in big trouble in the world !! like the picture. Babies and children must be treasured more than lovers, however, in the world, no one worked with them well in the same place.

Conclusion.

It’s difficult to keep a good balance of working and being children or lovers. It doesn’t exist work and love balance in the same place. Children will go to school soon after all you and lovers have to quit soon. Office love is impossible. In the office, your love should be for work and do love outside, please.

P.S. Debating means that I have to have both side answers, though, l can’t think about the pro side this time. Hahaha

Debate practice 3

 Debate practice 3

Social media has improved human communication. My side is the False side. I’ve read a lot of books to know about current situations about communication, and l understood it. I think that people including you who say that the false side is difficult to answer is wrong!!

Let’s get started.

☆Communication means to exchange of information or ideas.

☆Improving means, you must really know, to make better, increases quality, and become better something. Already, the answer is here. BETTER!!

Can you say that our ways are better in other words improving?

Here are the details.

1)Just increasing in information volume is increasing.

2)It’s also that you can feel that your knowledge might increase.

3)It’s because you can see Wikipedia soon and think that Wikipedia is your skill, but it’s not yours. A lot of students use the wiki as their skill and knowledge and just cope as their report. It’s so bad.

4)Furthermore, you don’t need to go to liberties, thus only reaching information speed is quickened.

5)The world is completely divided by SNS and social media. Not only people who use it but also Twitter, Facebook, other Companies are criminals that create bad situations, problems, slanders, and smears. It leads to suicide, disparity, and wild inequality.

6)To tell a marriage message by using social media is not good communication!! We lose that important communication not only face to face but also having compassion!!

Conclusion

Without having it, we can’t say that it’s better communication and it’s improving.

I’ll show you pictures.

If you research about the exchange. It has a connection. Telling marriage message is changing. It doesn’t have a connection, so bad and sad. People only gather information, though, they are not connected. If you research about social communication. People are soon sick. Many people use social media, but they don’t know even their names. The word: Communication doesn’t show smartphones. For good communication, it’s not used yet.

Last example that the world understands.

Japanese people including me are said that they don’t speak English!! They have studied hard, even for nine years in schools. They use the internet and social media a lot, they might speak English, though, the world says that it’s not communication.

The answer is social media has not improved human communication.

How do you like it?

P.S. Actually, I hit upon the Joke that must get a laugh.

9.20.2020

Liene Ozoliņa : Why do we blame individuals for economic crises?

 Liene Ozoliņa·TEDxRiga

Why do we blame individuals for economic crisis?

Summary

I also think about the reason for the title because of coronavirus, the same things will happen. It stopped the world economy, many people are still struggling, and we want to find criminals. The situation must be, l think, that the result that we continue doing. Now is the time to change.


The story was about the Latvian economic crisis in 2008 when the global financial crisis decimated Latvia. The unemployment was increasing, the government slashed public funding, raised taxes, and provided relief to only the wealthy and large businesses. People without them accepted the responsibility that is laziness or criminality for the country’s failing economy.

However, the speaker who is a political sociologist thought that it’s wrong.

The social programs that emphasize individual responsibility must create poverty and inequality, and it shouldn’t have become common across the world.

It should give them real means to get out of poverty other than emigrating. It’ll be necessary to connect with one another more than reading self-help books, going to seminars, and receiving moral education. Compassionate social politics that has the purpose of social justice and equality should be created by the government.

9.19.2020

Carl Safina : The oil spill's unseen villains — and victims

Carl Safina·TEDxOilSpill

The oil spills unseen villains- and victims

Summary

This was also a sad story as it was the last time and l couldn’t understand a sentence: whenever the speaker looked the ocean, no matter where he was, even where he knew that none of the oil had gone.

It’s not that the story explained just only about the oil accident of the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez spill occurred in Alaska. Actually, a few months ago, in 2020, an oil spill accident occurred in Mauritius which had a very beautiful ocean. It was announced only a few times.

And then, I've just understood what the title wanted to tell us.

The speaker tells us that animals, fish, and birds are sending us signs that there’s danger in the ocean. However, there’s nobody out there trying to collect spilling oil on the ocean after the accidents and children are in the water.

In fact, oil and water, you know, that doesn’t mix, but after adding dispersants called the booms and a little energy from the wild and waves and mixing, you can’t clean, touch, see, and extract oil. It’s hidden. The evidence is unseen.

About 30 percent of the killer whales died, turtles ate oil, though, their gills would be affected and broken by oil. A dolphin came next to the side of the boat at last, and dolphins haven’t come out yet. It was coming to ask for help. Sea birds and tunas couldn’t have eggs because of a lot of the oily water. They are victims.

This must be the company’s negligence and the government’s oversight. They did nothing. There is no severe rule.

However, if before other energies are used, oil isn’t carried by using ships.

However, other clean energies are expensive.

Who says it’s too expensive?

People who sell us fossil fuels say it.

Are they villains?

Or people who used the dispersants to hide, the company that the account occurred, the government that doesn’t save the ocean...

The speaker said that the cheapest energy was slavery.

Who are their owners? Who uses energy?

The answer is the unseen villain of the title.

P.S. The ending of the speaker’s stories was always sad, though, this is reality. We have to change our actions soon. This time, many people go to Mauritius to clean the ocean. We fill a lot of plastic bags with oil until oil goes. Now is the time, though, we have to regain our clean ocean and change our actions.

Abigail Disney : Dignity isn't a privilege. It's a worker's right

Abigail Disney·TED2020

Dignity isn’t a privilege. It’s a worker’s right

Summary

I think that because of coronavirus, the world working environment is completely changing. The services that we need today mightn’t be necessary tomorrow. In the situation, l think that to offer respect, dignity, and living funds to everyone who is not only workers but also who doesn't have work. 

Companies have worked for shareholders before coronavirus spreading, though, the services that companies have don't work because people can't go out. Companies and workers endeavor. The world worked for money before. Now is the time to change our thoughts about working and money with respect and dignity for making the world better. Dignity isn’t a privilege. It’s all human right.

9.13.2020

Carl Safina : What are animals thinking and feeling?

 Carl Safina·Mission Blue II

What are animals thinking and feeling?

Summary

This was a sad story. After reading the story, l couldn’t say anything. The title is "What are animals thinking and feeling" so we are humans who must be the same creatures as animals, though, only humans can’t answer to the question: What are humans thinking and feeling?

It’s said that humans have a great big brain, we can use tools, teach many things to children, and share food. We can feel empathy, sympathy, and compassion, though, we eat animals, and then humans drive animals to extinction.

Animals of course eat other animals, though, animals don’t drive others to extinction. Animals can feel and do mysterious things. Those are just hints and arts for telling us who live on Earth together something that humans almost never think about at all.

Animals always announce the danger to pass life. Humans kill animals to eat and to get money, furthermore, our actions lead to severe climate change, creatures lose lands to live and we don’t know about animals’ signs. In this situation, do animals love us?

The speaker’s last question: are we capable of using what we have to care enough to simply let them continue?

Neal Katyal : How to win an argument (at the US Supreme Court, or anywhere)

 Neal Katyal·TED2020

How to win an argument (at the US Supreme Court, or anywhere)

Summary

The speaker whose father was an immigrant had to fight in court and it was a difficult case. The opponent was America’s top courtroom lawyer of the Solicitor General of the United States, and the speaker’s client was the driver of Osama bin Laden who was an enemy of all over the US. Furthermore, Donald Trump was elected. Trump's side banned immigration from seven countries with overwhelming Muslim population. The speaker’s team struck the travel ban as discrimination, though, Trump side added North Korea, they said it’s not discrimination thus the speaker lost.

However, after all, even in the Supreme Court, just convenient things for someone, especially authority, have won.

The speaker remembered the case of 70 years ago. It was the same office, the case was won by the former Head of the Solicitor General’s Office and the speaker was the same position at the same office at that time. He realized that there was racial prejudice, the FBI believed it, the government’s misrepresentation, and the racists were not very good with a distinction between Hindus and Muslims.

Talking about stories of some of the most impactful cases.

Showing human connection, empathy, and faith.

Persuasion is about empathy, confidence is the enemy of persuasion

Getting into someone else’s shoes and empathizing.

Avoiding emotion. Letting provocation an emotional reaction.

Waiting for timing, even if vindication comes.

History will prove you right if you make a good argument without giving up. The way is not to win every argument, you have to have skills and power on how to get back up when you do lose.

The speaker's result was applied to the Geneva convention as the war on terror.

Jacqueline Novogratz : What it takes to make change

 Jacqueline Novogratz·TED2020

What it takes to make change

Summary

I have words to remember always when I'm in difficult situations.

“It’s always darkest before dawn”

Meaning is that there is hope in the worst situations, don’t give up, and remember it’s always darkest before dawn.

The speaker in the story tells us the same.

“It’s in the darkest time that we have the chance to find our deepest beauty” so because of coronavirus, the economy is standing still around the world, thus it’s really in the darkest and severest time. However, no matter how hard it gets, there is always beauty to be found.

In the past, the speaker worked in Africa to help women who were sacrificed for money, marriage, and culture. She saved them, though, a big genocide occurred after that, many women who worked with her died. She struggled for a long time. Was it in vain?

However, a beautiful thing happened after 30 years. When she visited there again, the daughter whose mother worked with the speaker told the speaker to want to work with to change the country. What the speaker did in the past was not wasted.

It takes time, however, it’s time to change. The definition of success based on money, power, and fame is changing. We have to start the hard work of a moral revolution.

It’s a change against the cruel inequality, big polarization, and catastrophic climate change to create a better world.

The speaker shares three requirements.

Seeing others as equal to ourselves. It’s moral imagination.

Hoping opposing values in tension. Don’t stand on either side. It negates generative potentials.

Accompanying means to walk alongside.

For overcoming this economic situation, we need the story. Thank you so much.

Words in this story

It takes/ it needs, it requires

dawn/ dôn

Mohammad Modarres : Why you should shop at your local farmers market

Mohammad Modarres·TED Residency

Why you should shop at your local farmers market

Summary

Consumers are now increasingly disconnected from local famers markets and the economics of food production, because of the rise of the smartphone.

It can directly send not only a lot of invitations but also goods to consumers.

However, the speaker suggests thinking of yourself as an investor in food. Your purchasing power helps local farmers.

Local farmers are struggling because it happens Big Ag consolidations and it’ll lead to multigenerational farms losing and communities suffering.

Shop at your local farmers market to avoid the high costs of low quality food, protect our environment, save them.

They serve healthy and natural food with minimal packaging waste.

Words in this story

stag·nate / cease to flow, stop movingconsolidation / the action or process of making something stronger or more solid

Yaël Eisenstat : Dear Facebook, this is how you're breaking democracy

 Yaël Eisenstat·TED2020

Dear Facebook, this is how you're breaking democracy

Summary

In the title, the word "you" meant Facebook. I was really shocked because I thought that people who were using Facebook were breaking democracy, they didn't know how to use SNS well, and democracy couldn't adapt to our life from many years ago. 

Didn’t political polarization of the US happen if there is no Facebook?

Was the reason Facebook?

Is it necessary to have a law or to involve the government?

There are lots of great stories of positive things happening on your platform around the globe.

However, the algorithm mechanism of social media is to keep feeding us the poison that plays to our worst instinct and human weaknesses. We are being manipulated by the current information. It’s because people become absolutists, and compromise has become a dirty word. It can say that this is an important point, social media companies like Facebook get benefits from segmenting us and feeding us personalized content. By provoking a strong emotion, incentivizing inflammatory, and completely polarizing, it’s impossible to find our common ground. Anger, mistrust, the culture of fear, hatred are dramatically scaling up. It’s getting worse. Still, it must be ineffective to talk face to face.

The speaker worked to stop those, she couldn’t do, thus she suggests that it’s awful for companies to get benefits from platforms that create hatred, division, and distrust and it needs the law.

P.S. In Japan, Young Japanese people don't use Facebook. They use other SNS. It might show an aging society. In fact, the reason why elderly people can’t change their thoughts is that they have been reading newspapers for a long time and now, the newspaper becomes evil like this story that Facebook is evil in the story. Actually, a suicidal accident occurred by internet slander and defamation among young Japanese users. 

Lindiwe Mazibuko : Why the African diaspora is crucial to the continent's future

 


Lindiwe Mazibuko·TEDxEuston

Why the African diaspora is crucial to the continent’s future

Summary

Diaspora shows a dispersion of any people from their original homeland. The speaker suggests to the African diaspora that they return to their home countries and devote themselves to public service.

Now, many students leave their country to study and to get a job to send money to their parents and families temporarily. However, they don’t return and they don’t want to return. It’s because they think that they won’t earn enough in Africa and they are fed up with African politics.

The speaker knew that because she worked as a politician thus she wants to change African politics with them. She was too young, didn’t have enough experience, so it was difficult for females alone to disrupt the political status quo.

She knows that the reasons that young people couldn’t earn enough money in Africa are political-economic problems and large numbers of young people have to join political organizations to influence change from within. They have to actively seek to take up a leadership role in government, the state, and public services. First, registering is responsible for young people.

I found the great words in the story: cash transfers from Africans living outside of the continent have now begun to exceed donor aid from foreign countries into Africa. Now is the time to change. With African new energies around entrepreneurialism and innovation, change politics rightly. 

If no one does anything, there is no lasting prosperity. Emerging from stereotypes of the dark continent, and the hopeless continent, commit to public service and challenge.

Debate practice 1

Debate practice 1

Today, I’ll tell you a favorable opinion of abortion.

In Japan, in 1948, abortion was justified by the law. It’s because many babies and mothers died of infectious and genetic diseases.

The following are the reasons that l gathered about why the law of abortion is necessary.

1, If those mothers would be protected, they could give birth next to healthy children. When babies in her belly are sick, they might kill their mothers when they were born. They might die soon and they might spread infectious diseases. There are so many tragedies.

2, That time, huge money is needed. The family, doctors, hospitals, and even countries are in trouble. It can save more babies.

3, In the past, only women had to pay fines and penalties by abortion and go to jail, even if women were the rape victims. It’s unfair. Thus abortion has been justified by the law. Still, in some countries, only women suffer penalties, even the reason is sexual violence.

4, In poor refugee camps, sometimes, small young girls become mothers. It’s strange and we can’t believe it. They should study, receive better sex education, and those girls should be protected by an abortion. They don’t have their food thus they shouldn’t have babies.

5, Having a baby means that we have to have responsibilities. With responsibility, deciding abortion is the right choice for not only women but also societies.

6, The demo for banning abortion is often held. I think that it must be that they want to only win elections. After all, it’s not banned always and if those students have been made pregnant, they have to have an abortion.

7, If it’s done in secret, it’s really dangerous. Girls and ladies would die or it leads to sequels. They have to suffer all their lives. In some African countries, abortion is banned, though, it’s done in secret always. Many young girls are sacrificed.

8, Officially, ministers and pastors say that abortion is prohibited. However, l think that the reason must be the same as elections' reason. They want to protect their position. They don’t say strongly that for men, stop sexual violence, for citizens, raise children, and protect girls from sexual violence. However, they only say abortion is prohibited. It’s nonsense. All those should be told with the set.

9, Strong control leads to more tragic accidents.

10, having a lot of babies can be used for trading and experiments. For the prohibition of an experiment performed in a living person's body, an abortion is necessary.

In Japan, the number of abortions is decreasing recently. We humans have to think about the importance of lives so thinking about deeply means that there is a choice.

Conclusion.

1)Protecting a lot of women, ladies and girls, 2)blessing next healthy babies,3) taking responsibility for a better choice,4)avoiding scarfing, 5) and mothers, babies, and our societies become happy, abortion has to be justified by the law. It exists with better education, morals, and philosophy. Our lives are with small lost lives by an abortion always. We don’t forget it and spend with grateful feelings.

P.S. This is a debate for just practicing speaking English and my answers were like children. When I was a student, I didn't study English and debate. In Japan, women have to be quiet and in the classroom, students have to only listen to teachers. I regret it, though,  l couldn’t believe myself to gather the reasons that are not against abortion this time. I’m a woman who loves to have a baby. Dying babies are so sad. The Japanese population is decreasing, (I think that it's not bad) many women couldn’t have children. And then, a story changed my thoughts that I started to think that even if there are babies from raping, we have to raise them.

And there is one more reason that an abortion is necessary that is human desires can’t be stopped. I’ve heard that the law of abortion is for men’s desires. OMG!! Recently, it’s often announced. Not only young boys but also girls think that there is the law of abortion thus they think that they don’t need to prevent pregnancy. Loving each other is a great thing, though, we shouldn’t forget to have responsibilities.

And then, l strongly decided to study English more. hahaha

9.06.2020

David Epstein : Why specializing early doesn't always mean career success

David Epstein·TEDxManchester

Why specializing early doesn’t always mean career success

Summary

I have to read the story because I've strongly believed the 10,000 hours rule when l study English.

However, you try a variety of physical activities, gain broad and general skills, learn about your interests and abilities, and when you learn something of specialty after that, you seem to succeed in your career.

Furthermore, you avoid "wicked learning environments", when you could merge things with different domains, your success will appear soon.

For example, even if l wouldn’t study English for 10,000 hours, if l study basic knowledge broadly, continue having internets of studying, and when l study a field of specialty,  will I succeed!? 

It’ll be important to combine to study with better environments, teachers, teams, and friends. It’s not too late!

The speaker tells us about the development of human potential.

Because of coronavirus spreading, the economy is standing still around the world. Among them, thinking about human potential must be a better thing for us.

Words in this story

merge / blend

Susannah Temko : What it means to be intersex — and how the false sex binary harms us all

 Susannah Temko·TEDxLondon

What it means to be intersex- and how the false sex binary harms us all

Summary

What is “normal”?People continue to say that women should be married, give birth, and especially have a boy. People say that normally, women do that. However, humanity is really complicated. We have to accept the complexity of humanity. There are many people who aren’t married, cannot be married, don’t have children, and cannot have children. We are the same human, we are equal and we have the same rights.

Intersex means that organisms poss both male and female sexual characteristics biologically. Intersex people are outside the traditional definitions of female and male and we are normal, though, they are harmed by people, shame, prejudice, and even doctors. It’s thought that it makes up to 1.7 percent of the population. They are not neutral, they are not broken, they don’t have anything that has to be fixed. Like the color of our eyes or the size of our feet, it rarely affects their health materially.

Protect intersex people, and don’t reinforce one form. The speaker loves her body and does not judge the bodies of others. All people deserve to gain equality and be loved.

Wanda Irving : How the US medical community fails Black mothers

 Wanda Irving·TEDMED 2020

How the US medical community fails Black mothers

Summary

The story tells us an unbelievable story. Black women are nearly 300 percent more likely to die as a result of childbirth than white women. About 700 to 800 women die each year in the US from pregnancy and childbirth-related complications. Many cases are preventable. Despite progressing the world medical system, realism and health disparities remain in a lot of areas.

It seems to start with black women who have been dismissed, ignored, and disregarded. Furthermore, they haven't been taken seriously in their interactions with the health care system. It’s continuing, repeating for a long time and nothing effective has been done to fix it.

The speaker founded a nonprofit to eliminate preventable deaths among Black mothers. The bias and racism that they experience should be recognized and counteracted.

Words in this story

counteract / act against (something) in order to reduce its force or neutralize it.

Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah : How do daily habits lead to political violence?

Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah·TEDxSMU

How do daily habits lead to political violence

Summary

This was a great story because it told us that the things that we gave up would be able to be changing. The speaker tells us that our future depends on us being able to find common ground with the other side. It comes from retraining our brain and stop contributing to violence ecologies.

People strongly believe that the differences are culture, it’s embedded, and it’s not changing, though, it’s wrong, it’s not biologically fixed, and it’s learned behavior. When we trust bad information, we’re going to make bad divisions. Just, we have always put ourselves into groups or we only think that we share nothing in common with that person and they’re different than us. It can be changed by learning. Whether you will take part in violent demos or not comes from studying, learning, and training. And then our daily habit that is seeing each other as just members of something, it leads to political violence, should be stopped. We have differences that are beautiful and important. We are the same human.