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L’avenir, c’est les autres | David Robert | TEDxCarthage


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good evening good evening haslem
that’s a lot of people met this
that my job is meeting
I would like to share with you some
number of thoughts on how
work on the mechanics of the
meeting can help build
the future
before that if you want it well we’ll
do a quick little exercise to my
signal i will give you 15 seconds to
to find someone you do not know
not rank behind you or rank
in front of you and ask him a question
only one question the one you want
you’ve thought it’s gone
thanks thanks
thanks thanks
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I would bet but I could be wrong
most of you have chosen
what do you call where do you come from and
what do you do in life
I obviously send in the first
ranks who dared is what you are alone
right now and what are you doing
after the show now I ‘m going
ask yourself a question and
this question is if I wanted
maximize the chances of learning
something of this person what
is the question I should have asked
we will come back to it two years ago
and a half
I was at the Louvre museum in Paris
many of you know I
suppose for a big group visit
we were about thirty from
every country in the world
everyone had registered on a
facebook group was talking about memory
Russian Spanish Arabic Dari French
English and I certainly forget it
after two and a half hours of visit
in the antiques rooms
Eastern
we all go to the Tuileries Garden
to get to know hi how are you
what do you call yourself
come from where I was during the visit I had
noticed a type 1 m 65 brown face
a little emaciated in knife- blade a big
backpack is obviously someone from
talent and in oriental antiquities because
that she had posed a number of
questions really relevant to the guide
tp there so I approach him I
say hi hello to her, my name is
david talent is stuck in antiques
Eastern
you live in the corner you come often
alas with a movement of shouldered barely
perceptible he refers to his backpack and
a said it depends on the evening there I
understand that the person who is in
face of me lives in the street since
month we are in paris
end of November and suddenly there the words
arabic and cultivated strand are
immediately replaced by three words
which prevents me from seeing anything else
Syrian refugees and homeless three words
in which we find the echo of a
violence the image of poverty but
nothing reminiscent of the fabulous moments
that we spent together at the museum
the intellectual input that this person
had for the group
during the visit it’s a visit
was organized by an association whose
the goal is precisely to make
change the perceptions that citizens
local have newcomers
why change perceptions when
if we stand a little higher up
the perspective of the states we arrive enough
quickly to a stalemate
traditionally we think there is
two reflexes when we are facing a
phenomenon like the migratory phenomenon
we know in the mediterranean europe
since 2015 first reflex a reflex
fallback in one way or another
other we feel his identity threatened
so we close the borders second
reflex a reflex that we could
qualify as humanitarian in front of a
obvious human drama if we have the means
then we have the moral duty to do
something we manage food aid
accommodation legal aid
possibly brief manages emergency
but at no time do we think we borrowed
a third way a third way
which would consist of not considering
the entirety of this phenomenon as a
problem exclusively in all
economic scientific phenomena
nothing is always a problem there
there is bound to be a lesson to be learned
something positive to fetch
me when I think about what creates
wealth in general from a point of view
intellectual and economic scientist
I always arrive at the same answer
that creates wealth in a way or
another is innovation and
innovation what is innovation
it’s taking a step aside and watching
the thing differently thinking
differently act differently I am
fell a little by chance there are three
weeks
on the definition of the word refugee in
the first encyclopedia or the one
considers as the first encyclopedia
of the western world that of diderot and
d’alembert in the eighteenth century
and well this time refugees that
meant a French Protestant who
flee the Catholic monarchy for
to go i quote bring his talents to
the enemy what is preventing
people called migrants from
reveal what talent they are supposed to
bring and well one thing one thing them
basically prevents it today
it’s the thing that makes the common point
of all local citizens everywhere in
the world and their strength is capital
social
what is social capital what is it
your social capital your family your
friends your colleagues your symposium all these
people who every day tell you yes you
have reason to think what you think of
do what you do is go where you
go all those people who contribute to
your confidence in your project
professional at your choice of painless
to do all the little things of the
daily how we create capital
social what does that mean?
means how my friends are created
this question seems very stupid to
any exchange student
linguistics to any expatriate
sent by his company to the other end
of the world
it’s easy to make friends on
go to the university we take classes on
go see his colleagues after work
we are going to party
obviously for a newcomer
oddly the question arises not
this way then a group of
young people in paris at the time
not even the thirties decided to ride
a community a kind of open club
at all free so rather a
community in which attention scoop
we would only do what we love
when you join a club of
football is a priori we love football
so far not very original but the
principle of this community that is
original is that everything we do
it’s done so that every local and
several newcomer friends and
every newcomer refugees and
several local friends
rebuild the foundations of social capital
future that makes we may have
fewer problems afterwards
emma today are thousands in
all of Europe
we are tens of thousands
throughout Europe every Saturday
morning assad is going to run with céline celine
she does marketing and when she
not spit out his lungs to try to
catch up with assad
she tells him a little bit what
it’s that marketing because he
would like to resume studies in the
marketing
every Thursdays resa gives a course
of history from the middle east to david who
does not know anything about it but how he was
French teacher at least corrects him
his French while himself takes
its course every Tuesday and the
friday mahmoud and julien take
on the one hand, Arabic and
the other side of cooking classes
French then they get bigger and they
progress both in their
respective discipline
for years nawal is moored med
have found housing a job of
friends have resumed studies
celine sofia lice thomas vincent
learn a foreign language
flourish make theater have
friends
cook to take run more
when we do what we like is
that we do it with a lot of
motivation
until then it’s not really a scoop
nor is it called self-fulfillment
personal and but what does it do this
that we like
but where it becomes interesting is
when we read the pleasure and the impact
social that we can create three years ago
I met an NGO
this ngo I mentioned to you at the beginning
at the museum called things are I
came to see them at a meeting
information and then I said hello
my name is david i’m 36 years old i’m
married i have two children i love to cook
and eat some chukka and drink some good
wine and play petanque
and I also like watching football at
the TV but I’m not very strong I
prefers to watch it on TV that the
play in real I love to ride a bike
I also like to hike
and I also like going to the movies
to see comedies and then do some
very very long sentences
and I also like to write and tell
stories how will I be able to
help
they looked at me they told me you
continue to do what you love
only what you like but you come
to do with us you will meet with
bunch of people you did not think
met and who will learn from
things
if you too have something to
share
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