Richard Coffin·TED-Ed
What causes an economic recession?
Summary
Recession means an economic crisis that is a decline in the gross domestic product during two or more consecutive quarters and what causes recessions?
In fact, there are countless variables that contribute to an economy’s health thus it’s difficult to pinpoint specific causes.
Simply, it's the wrong balance between SUPPLY and DEMAND so it’s a mismatch.
In the article, INFLATION is written first. Goods and services get more expensive, people can’t buy, companies use and borrow more money to sell, and all things are getting more expensive thus people can’t buy forever. The market can’t escape from its inflation. Here, if governments and central banks have better policies, for example, printing money, declining interest rates, and income upping, it might moderate.
However, not inflation but in times of economic prosperity, some recessions occur. It's because there are many goods and services because of prosperities. Companies use and borrow more money to sell, though, people can't buy or use those because it's too much. I think that this is the Japanese situation and the population is declining rapidly. It means that there are few people to buy something or use some services. Companies can’t get benefits so the recession is continuing.
Furthermore, Japanese people without me have a habit of saving and they love quite cheap places. Thus DEFLATION occurs more than inflation in Japan.
In fact, the Japanese character of the economy is written as the scenery and MIND (EMOTION) of a person. Thus a bad economy is really related to our mind. The story also says that. I think that psychology more contributes than money.
At last, the story tells us that new data of the recession will be helpful for future recessions.
I think that what people want to know must be not only about those reasons but also what they have to do. However, economists and psychologists are scholars who are not businessmen and who don't have companies. Although some successful men tell us about how to succeed in a recession, it's past things already. Those are just stories of the reference, though, I think that people believe those strongly. Those are only ASSUMPTIONS and POSSIBILITY. I think that doing what economists and psychologists don't say is leading to successes while referencing their stories.
These are important words for understanding a recession.
SUPPLY, DEMAND, INFLATION, DEFLATION, ASSUMPTIONS, POSSIBILITY
Densho·TED-Ed
Ugly History: Japanese-American internment camps
Summary
I, probably other Japanese people also, didn't know about the story.
Densho is a nonprofit organization based in Seattle, Washington, which collects video, oral histories, and documents regarding the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It’s the Japanese American Legacy Project, and Densho is the Japanese words which means to pass on to future generations.
The first sentence of the story: On December 7, 1941, 16 years old Aki Kurose shared in the horror of millions of Americans when Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor. Shared must mean that she was an American who used English but probably still couldn’t use Japanese and she, of course, didn't know about the plan. However, her name was Japanese, her appearance was Asian, and her family was Japanese. Those reasons let her and Japanese American alienate, why?
Her family, of course, didn't know about the Japanese planes completely, though, why do people separate people by appearances? Is it a race and who teaches them that?
After the war, they returned where they lived before, though, postwar prejudice made finding work difficult. There was discrimination. Many ex-incarcerees, particularly members of older generations, were unable to rebuild their lives after the war.
In those, Aki Kurose who worked with the first interracial labor unions and joined the Congress of Racial Equality. She and young incarcerees began a movement calling for the United States to atone for this historic injustice. In 1988, the US government officially apologized for wartime incarceration-admitting that’s the catastrophic result of racism, hysteria, and failed political leadership. Three years after this, Aki Kurose was awarded the Human Rights Award from the Seattle Chapter of the United Nations. It tells peace and respect for people of all backgrounds. Additionally, she who as a teacher impacted thousands of students. She continued telling that multicultural and socially conscious education are important.
However, people still judge all by its appearances in the World. When are ugly Histories over and how can people understand peace and respect for people of all backgrounds? What does it mean that asking whether you are Japanese, or Chinese or Korean?
Words in this story
interment /noun/ burial, act of burying
atone /verb/ compensate
Tina Arrowood·TED@DuPont
A circular economy for salt that keeps rivers clean
Summary
I didn’t know that salt had needed for icy roads because of using salt to deice roads. However, it ends up in freshwater rivers and makes their water undrinkable.
Furthermore, other industries seem to drain salty industrial wastewater in the rivers.
The speaker tells us that those industrial-water users' practice has to change soon.
Reuse water more not to use clean water every time. 1)
Remove Salt in water before draining. 2)
Use recycled salt as our sources. 3)
And then the study seems to find that with technology, membranes that can separate salt and water can work well. Not only salty water but also industrial wastewater has to be more recycled.
For keeping rivers clean, circulation should be thought seriously.
Lawrence Lessig·TEDxNYED
Re-examining the remix
Summary
Before Trump administration coming, the story seemed to be told so in the title, the remix must mean conservatives and liberals to make better America.
The speaker tells us that we need to learn openness that is a commitment to a certain set of values and sharing activities. The Right side has to learn values on the Left that will do health care or global warming legislation or something.
However, not mixing but completely, separating the situation is current America after electing Trump and the next election comes soon. We are worried whether it’s continuing or not.
The speaker was a person who gave up announced his candidacy because Trump did. I want the speaker to assist Trump to make great America again. I'm sorry for expressing my mind too much.
"Don’t be junk that flows across the tubes in the internet" the speaker said in the story.
Juno Mac·TEDxEastEnd
The laws that sex workers really want
Summary
The law that sex workers really want is full decriminalization and labor rights as workers.
After reading a few times, I really understood that this was the really great story that Japanese people would never understand because they couldn’t still say that men and women are equal.
In the first place, sex work is work like we do, however, people think and see that they are degrading, 1) and they aren’t like humans who don’t have the right. 2)
Prostitution should be banned completely but the side of buying is also banned leads harming workers and societies in fact. Relating sex is complicated even making legal or regulation, of course, under the illegal working, it’s more difficult to work safely. Sex workers are not criminals but not victims too. Even feminists have all kinds of complicated feelings when it comes to sex. We have to see the underlying causes but we do not only see a particular manifestation of gender inequality.
Julie Cordua·TED2019
How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet
Summary
In the first place, it’s strange that there are communities that sexual abuse is normalizing 1) but it’ll bring communities benefit. 2) It’s because there are people who want to buy it is also strange. 3) According to the article, child sexual abuse material was in fact eliminated nearly in the late 1980s because new laws and increased prosecution made it simply too risky to trade it through the mail. However, it’s not over. By coming of the internet, the market exploded. 4)
I don’t know that only few pictures are spreading or numbers and victims are growing, though, it’s not important. Why can’t all adults understand that kids should be protected from abuses? 5) Why does someone buy it or why does someone help to spread it but they win? 6)
The speaker’s team searched that abuse files come from just 12 companies and they created a system to be able to stop a known piece of abuse material when someone tried to upload it. Little by little, it works, children started to be helped by the National Center. When many societies start to use it, the speed of removing child sexual abuse material from the internet will increase dramatically.
The title: How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet is just, we want to help kids from the things that all people know that it's wrong, though, a big system has to be created and cooperation of many companies are needed.
I found a great talk unexpectedly. The speaker is an overseas student of Ukraine. The talk that could never be told by Japanese people because they have positions that they want to protect. I somehow wanted to translate this into English, the talk should be known by many Japaese, though. hahaha. I'm inspired by him and I study more to know the world. He has his YouTube channel : Inaka_Andrew
This is what I have wanted to say for a long time.
Nazarenko Andry: 21st The Public Constitution Forum
0:31
Thank you for your introduction. My name is Nazarenko Andry. Five years ago, l came to Japan from Ukraine. Probably, I have lived in Japan when the discussion about a Japanese constitutional amendment was firing the strongest. Thus l heard the words "peace" and "war" many times.
0:47
A few years ago, Ukraine is a country which was invaded by Russia and a part of the territory was dispossessed, even now the fight is continuing and victims are increasing every day. I came from such a country "Ukraine" and that’s why I've concerned the discussion by all means. People for safeguard carelessly use the word “war” as a threatening word is the current situation of my country.
1:10
And then the insistence of people who are against constitutional change is very alike with the mistakes that Ukraine did. I felt a strong sense of crisis. Simply, what self-pacifists say is that it won't be attacked if the country doesn't have armies and doesn't threaten neighboring countries. All fights can be solved by conversations with peace. Allowing the right to Collective self-defense is dangerous because wars of different countries will be involved.
1:42
Here, it'll compare the policy that Ukraine had continued before being invaded with. In 1991, when Ukraine became independent from the Soviet Union, it had a lot of nuclear weapons and armies of one million. However, it's high cost, it'd be warned by neighbor countries, it's dangerous, and Ukraine handed over every nuclear weapon. Instead, Ukraine concluded An international treaty called The Budapest Memorandum on Security, and it's entrusted self-defense to other countries. And then, the armies of one million decreased to two hundred thousand, it means that one of five disarmament was carried out. Furthermore, for stopping involving with a major power, Ukraine hasn't joined a military alliance completely like NATO. This must be the Pacifism that the Japanese Communist Party thinks.
2:35
I want people who think that the policy is great to go to Ukraine by all means (applause) and I want to hear their opinions while watching destroyed cities which were burning out by war, children who have to hide underground in school because of falling missiles, and graves of the war dead that is included the lives who couldn't live even twenty years old.
Is this the future of Japan you want? If there are the words you have that can stop wars, we want to know it. When you are in safe places, you always talk about that. Why have you never gone to the front of wars yet to tell the spirits of peace? I want to hear that. (applause)
3:27
In my opinion is that without suppression, no countries are possible to have peace and suppression means not only physical. If by referendum, many thousands of Japanese people go to polls, they will vote in “constitutional change”, it means that “ Japan doesn’t admit the forcibly imposed law by other countries. We govern our country by ourselves. The self-defense force protects Japan, we cooperate with the SDF and protect the right of SDF members”. Showing such strong wills will be, I think, the greatest suppression. (applause)
4:13
On the other hand, how do neighboring countries understand the situation of not changing the constitution? Japanese people will quietly follow the imposed rules forever to be attacked with force. They won’t make an action even taking Japanese territory, abducting citizens, flying missiles, breaking treaty and many times invading territorial waters occur. The Japanese parliament doesn’t make a decision, doesn’t take the action even though severe crisis has come but they’ve continued unimportant discussions. Thinking such things must be really the fact that it can’t be possible to be in uninvited war, I think of that. (applause)
4:55
There are people who think that “this is delicious of persecution” and "unrealistic" that is being invaded by neighboring countries, but Ukrainians had also thought about the same things until 2014. The thoughts were had by everyone. However, in retrospect of being too peaceful, that was one of the tactics of foe who let people think that fight won’t happen. I understood that.
5:20
Alright, in the Constitution of Japan of the introduction, the words "the peace-loving peoples of the world" are used. I want to believe that the majority of citizens love peace in any country. However, are there neighboring countries of Japan where authorities understand people‘s requests? North Korea, China, and Russia are quite dictator countries. Even citizens of those each country really love peace, if authority orders to fight, they can’t say No.
5:55
And then, opposition parties aren’t able to persuade the same Japanese people who use the same Japanese language, though, why they think that they can do let foreigners who have completely different nationalities understand not to have wars. I can't understand why they think so. (Applause) Additionally, they many times say that discussion is necessary, though, they have a pose to escape it is absolutely strange also.
6:21
In the world condition becoming more serious, it shouldn’t extend the problem of constitutional reforms relating to remaining the nation any more. Japan now sees a chance historically. Whether they can catch it or ruin it, it'll decide how descendants evaluate current Japanese people better or worse. In a new era named Reiwa, believe that Japan will be governed with the constitution based on the Japanese spirit finally. And then Japan is independent, being an equal member of the international community must be worth for Japan and the world. Thank you for your kind attention.
Words in this story
dispossess /verb/ deprive (someone) of something that they own, typically land or property.
insistence /noun/ claim, assertion, opinion, advocacy
self-pacifists) pacifists /noun/ a person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable.
entrust /verb/ assign the responsibility for doing something to (someone).
appraises
Siddhartha Mukherjee·TED2015
Soon we’ll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill
Summary
The speaker said that current medical treatment can be explained by six words: Have disease, take pills, kill something. Well, it’s said that an antibiotic was nothing short of transformative. It’d course through your body, find its target, lock into its target (a microbe, etc) and then turn off a lock and key. The idea are lock and key, killing something, and helping a lot of people. However, it’s a limit. It’s worked only 250 of a million.
After a long studying, one new idea was born. It’s not killing something but growing something. Your medicine could be a cell from a pill and in your body, it’ll stop suicide genes from growing. The malignant cells are dying like cancer, though, new cells stop it and those are growing in your body and your own cells might be able to be new cells. It’ll be the result to incorporate genomics into multi-order, semi-autonomous, self-regulating, like cells, organs, and environments.
The true curing not killing something will come soon.
Melissa Fleming·TEDxThessaloniki
A boat carrying 500 refugees sunk at sea. The story of two survivors
Summary
The speaker’s question: Could we be inspired by what happened, and take a stand for a world in which every life matters?
The story tells us a really true core. The important things are not that two refugees could survive, that the life was small, that 498 people drowned and died, and that smugglers were notorious. Just, it’s better that people can thrive where they are so they don’t become refugees who ride dangerous boats.
And then, the news that two people could survive makes more people ride boats, it’s strange, right? It leads more people to dying.
You must understand the answer to the speaker’s question.
Words in this story drown,drowned,drowned /drάʊn/ droun/ verb/ die through submersion in and inhalation of water.
Will Hurd·TED Salon: Border Stories
A wall won't solve America's border problems
Summary
Current media is, l want to say, really and prejudicially telling people the news. It’s true in Japan also.
In the article, the professor tells us the wall wasn’t built to directly solve the problems and the direct reason that many children were separated mustn’t be the wall. However, people strongly want to connect those two things.
Streamlining legal immigration is the goal of the wall.
And then, Children must be, I think that because I am an outsider, intentionally brought there because it’s illegal. Parents know that America takes care of children humanely, even illegally entering.
Professor also tells us that specifically, in the Northern Triangle: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, there are some of the key roots and the amount of money which is given to those countries shouldn’t be decreasing and taking care of children humanely is continuing.
The reporter’s question: How do we convince all Americans to understand what you say that more unites us than divides us?
My answer is that the reporter’s side divides us, so with reporters (media ), things that America has done should be told more correctly
Kishore Mahbubani·TED2019
How the West can adapt to rising Asia
Summary
The speaker seems to be a Singaporean. Thus the side of West isn’t the US, is it?
He tells us that for working in the West, being minimalist, multilateral and Machiavellian are necessary and it’ll bring happiness to people. However, if Machiavellian shows to prefer the benefit of own country, the story must be selfish.
Probably, the population of China, India, and Africa is big and those have many races, languages and regions thus he examples being minimalist and multilateral and his one more example is that the global village council is the UN.
I want to think that his meaning is to listen to the voice of the silent majority. In the past, Asian countries, small countries, and developing countries couldn’t say anything. In fact, Japan was also oppressed by even the UN because it’s a small country that is said to have World War 2. Even though there are many victims by nuclear weapons, even now the treaty isn’t promised by South Korea, and missiles are used by North Korea to attack Japan, the world mustn’t have unprejudiced judgments. For the world peace and happiness of people, people and the UN have to work.
Emmett Shear·TED2019
What streaming means for the future of entertainment
Summary
Streaming is a method of transmitting or receiving data over a computer network as a steady, continuous flow, allowing playback to proceed while subsequent data is being received. It’s a big difference between downloading. It’s not after doing but while doing, right?
In the past, when entertainment came to us, those isolated us. It means that TV, games, videos and so on stopped us to go outside. We could enjoy watching movies without going to theaters alone.
However, streaming can connect us again.
It can share, interact, connect and create more intimate communities. Enjoy new connections.
António Guterres·TEDGlobal>Geneva
Refugees have the right to be protected
Summary
I thought that in the article, the commissioner was a good speaker. In fact, he, a Portuguese, had been the United Nations High Commissioner for REFUGEES since 2005 to 2015, and the talk starts the most important thing that is addressing the root causes, but forgetting about root causes, for now, looking at the phenomenon.
I, l realize now, think that in the first place, my premise is wrong.
It should be that it’s natural to receive refugees. All conditions have to prepare and organize it properly. It’s because refugees are increasing in the world but multiplicatively, new conflicts occur but the old conflicts never died, furthermore the power of the international community is worse. It means that unpredictabilities tend to prevail, it’s clear that all societies will be multiethnic, multicultural, multi-religions in the future and it’s important to welcome and integrate effectively in our world. failure leads to terrorisms
The welcome sides have to have more solidarity, it’s not time to divide, it’s not a problem of number and thinking about being invaded is also wrong. Properly prepare to protect the right that refugees have.
