[Music]
there was a well it did not look
important it was build evanka trucks
roughly martyred an adult could let
could look right over it and even a
child with climates like all words it
was ambiguous two-faced which was inside
it and what was outside it depended upon
which side of it of it you were on how
big are the eyes of a child migration is
a slippery phenomena petitions it’s very
difficult to measure population and it’s
harder to count how many people live the
country that was arriving it in 2015
there were about 21 million immigrants
living in European Union from non-member
countries and I’m one of about 900,000
Ukrainians who live in the EU Ukraine is
the Europe stair-step and it stands by
the door of European Union Ukrainians
won the EU and best part of them who
resides above the country that resides
that in Poland Italy Germany Spain and
Czech Republic Ukraine’s wanted so much
that a lot of them live every day the
passports to human traffickers and I’m
not talking about the 1 million X and
600,000 IDPs internally the place
persons that are living today as
refugees in the country because of the
jumba’s crisis every one of you has a
passport probably lost in a drawer or a
Samaritan a little booklet with
different colored Harkavy and the sort
of emblem of your country joking man not
so much as he does Brecht writes that a
man could born by chance but not a
passport is the noblest part
of us and nowadays we have no value as
persons without it’s funny but when
we’re little children instructions
advise us to not play with plastic bags
to keep us safe
instead when we are grown-up instruction
advise us to not play with our passport
to keep it safe
passports identicards Social Security
numbers are very important for our
bureaucracy a document contains a lot of
useful information about ours for
example our name the date and place of
birth sex gender and the place where we
live and a lot of other information that
some nation require or have required the
past for example the name of our parents
our job and even our religion and
finally a document must have a number
that is our number for example according
to my passport my numbers pa zero nine
three seven eight nine okay but I can’t
understand where I am better in my
passport there is no useful information
about me as a person document result my
whole identity that is to say my whole
story my passport I’m a combination of
details that put together did not make
sense if you really want to know me akia
party enna this is the admission test in
spirulina the place where I live in the
south of Italy near Naples near the sea
near the mountains and and away from
everything if you have a countess
Padonia somebody probably an old Roman
to who you are asking for direction
could I ask you at your party ana what
does it mean I’ve been living there for
13 years and the still don’t know
exactly what it means
I kept Athena is something like whom do
you belong to and also for your parents
who related to which is your
neighbourhood where do you live and
better who can I ask to
about you a number of personal and
complicated questions don’t you think
this old lady is not a border patrol
agent with hats a gun and a button she
has got only some wrinkles red eyes a
lovely voice and the walking stick
imagine you in a speedo on em it’s a
sunny day a view of you are in the view
in the road passing through fuels houses
and a little church and the smiling face
is asking you about your whole story so
have you got your passport with you
have you checked it okay
suck it away and try to answer this nice
old lady probably my face remembers here
when I was a child just to ride in Italy
from Ukraine all nice old ladies of
Spadina stopped my mother in order to
pinch my cheeks in a welcoming sign it
been so hard that matrix became red
burning in their very big and calloused
hands as soon as they got near me I used
to close my eyes but I didn’t pull away
my face because it was a sort of ritual
initiation do you really want to be one
of at the little polished child in
spadonnay there are four time Ukrainians
more than poles but all white immigrants
suppose you know so do you really want
to be one of that that pertains to
spirulina okay give us a special
Ukrainian polish which have a cheek and
our strong fingers will transport them
into originals and sparin once they stop
pulling my cheeks when I turn ten they
had been pinching my cheeks for six long
years and only when the note is that my
cheeks weren’t actual is so different
from Italian wines latinum
a main piece no matter
akia party no no question for me they
knew that I was daughter of Nadia and
there are four from 8 to 20 million
people of your cranial region living
abroad in the world the number is quite
shaky just because there are some doubts
about how to consider people for example
like my brothers and all the members of
second and third generations eight or
twenty minutes
works many in Italy there are about 240
foreigners of Ukrainian region the fifth
largest freeboard community in the
country too many or not I can see it in
spirulina we are thirty four and five of
them are members of my family of an
amount of about 100 foreigners were too
few of us in my school and the only
student well that was not born in Italy
I’m alone too many or too few we will
never be the right number somebody
thinks that we are a part of our buying
horde someone else that we are heroes I
really can’t decide probably I am
barbarian hero but I know the stories
and everyday life of some of them for
example every morning Yulia walks down
three kilometers on foot walking with
her three children to school that’s why
she’s always late at work every evening
Olga gets bored so she never tires of
calling her son in Ukraine and when he
doesn’t answer she gets angry calls
friends and gossips every Sunday
Gallia’s goes to church that is so so
stickler with her daughter-in-law that
probably the poor girl will leave Dallas
zones as his former wife that has
escaped from her lucky here so everyday
life of average people so where are the
heroes where are the Burberry hoods that
I am wearing Europe on a little bike
like Natalia riding every day the most
unsafe state route near Naples
of that challenge with for his car or
the next conqueror will be Tania
that’s Victor Christ and hopes every
night will arrive here in Italy for
cemented signs her treatments okay I am
Anastacio better
anastasiya Alex and him now and I moved
to Italy from Ukraine when I was four
and I’m not a number and I don’t feel
intruding with Julia oh yeah
Galia Natalia Victor and Tanya we’re not
many I grown up feeling middle Ukrainian
or Italian a stranger to myself and a
foreigner in this and my own country
before I decided to spread myself out on
my own horizon for this contest for the
first contest for the sake TEDx youth I
prepared a speech about a cow yes about
a cow a big fat calming Freud cow it was
not a joke it was a holy symbol in my
childhood in the speech I did say that I
liked expressing myself when I draw even
though I never shown my drawings to
anyone but I didn’t say the most
important thing my mother when I met her
for the first time at the age of 4 was
the one who showed me how to do a cow
so cow was the first link with my mother
and I have been afraid of losing pits
for a bear a long time so I had always
my drawings kept away from anyone now
where in my past I also can all my
memories and I hidden there far away in
my mind so in the longest and I no
longer desert where was but some day
before the video contests
I found a folder when I had closed all
my sketches and keeping in hand one of
these crumbled sheets I simple real eyes
that’s all my dreams and expectations
had been closed in a folder for years I
have to say that my first pitch was so
straight and quite contradictory so I
had to prepare another one I was plenty
of thoughts without words so I finally
went to my mom
i sat in front of hair and I asked
please mama tell me my story and she
said do you really want our story I know
that and in strong and calm words she
gave me the reason why she and dad left
Ukraine searching a different life in a
foreign country she also said that
living Ukraine and me when I was just
one yield they wanted to earn enough
money to buy a washer I just advise hair
dryer and the refrigerator come back
home both very young 22 years old fallen
in love with the strength of my daddy
and the kindness of my mum as they soon
realized that Sparano was the right
maybe the best place will leave us
persons and not only as workers in my
time I have remade me with magnifier and
see Vinnitsa my mother told me also how
after three very long years my daddy
picked up me and took me home in an
early afternoon on my childhood a little
baby looking towards to see her mum in
every brown eyes with hope fear and a
lot of childish Inga until then I
thought that she had abandoned me
refused for a new life without me
but talking now Franklyn touched my
mother picked up me and took me home
again to my real home myself I cried a
lot preparing the second speech all
these years I misunderstood my mom I
thought that she was a treasures well
she was a nice a hearing that has lit up
my whole life so I’m here today telling
you about my true story a story about a
daughter of a couple of heroes and a
speak English in order to be
understandable to everyone here in Italy
and then in Ukraine speaking about the
price of
and the power of words how big are the
eyes of a child’s searching for her
mother
how long out the hours of a mother
without her daughter how many children
how many big guys are searching the way
to reach the hours of their mothers
I’ve been lucky very lucky Alan Kurdi
from kobani was only three when he had
closed for the last time his big brown
eyes looking for his mother in San miles
a Mediterranean Sea drowned between
Turkey and Greece I did my 20 hours bus
ride from Venus’s of Spiro Anna well he
did didn’t reach the European dream his
father is his is crying his normal
smiles no more dreams no more no more
words my mother taught me how to do a
cow and that’s had been the best moment
of my childhood since then I kept my
eyes wide opened and now understand that
migration is not a moment but a process
migrants want to be heard than to earn
we all as human beings needs problematic
and personal questions
we need more old ladies and dog on board
Border Patrol agents more stories and
less passports big guys close by
pinching ratings no more ice close by
tears shot and sent thank you for
attention
you
there was a well it did not look
important it was build evanka trucks
roughly martyred an adult could let
could look right over it and even a
child with climates like all words it
was ambiguous two-faced which was inside
it and what was outside it depended upon
which side of it of it you were on how
big are the eyes of a child migration is
a slippery phenomena petitions it’s very
difficult to measure population and it’s
harder to count how many people live the
country that was arriving it in 2015
there were about 21 million immigrants
living in European Union from non-member
countries and I’m one of about 900,000
Ukrainians who live in the EU Ukraine is
the Europe stair-step and it stands by
the door of European Union Ukrainians
won the EU and best part of them who
resides above the country that resides
that in Poland Italy Germany Spain and
Czech Republic Ukraine’s wanted so much
that a lot of them live every day the
passports to human traffickers and I’m
not talking about the 1 million X and
600,000 IDPs internally the place
persons that are living today as
refugees in the country because of the
jumba’s crisis every one of you has a
passport probably lost in a drawer or a
Samaritan a little booklet with
different colored Harkavy and the sort
of emblem of your country joking man not
so much as he does Brecht writes that a
man could born by chance but not a
passport is the noblest part
of us and nowadays we have no value as
persons without it’s funny but when
we’re little children instructions
advise us to not play with plastic bags
to keep us safe
instead when we are grown-up instruction
advise us to not play with our passport
to keep it safe
passports identicards Social Security
numbers are very important for our
bureaucracy a document contains a lot of
useful information about ours for
example our name the date and place of
birth sex gender and the place where we
live and a lot of other information that
some nation require or have required the
past for example the name of our parents
our job and even our religion and
finally a document must have a number
that is our number for example according
to my passport my numbers pa zero nine
three seven eight nine okay but I can’t
understand where I am better in my
passport there is no useful information
about me as a person document result my
whole identity that is to say my whole
story my passport I’m a combination of
details that put together did not make
sense if you really want to know me akia
party enna this is the admission test in
spirulina the place where I live in the
south of Italy near Naples near the sea
near the mountains and and away from
everything if you have a countess
Padonia somebody probably an old Roman
to who you are asking for direction
could I ask you at your party ana what
does it mean I’ve been living there for
13 years and the still don’t know
exactly what it means
I kept Athena is something like whom do
you belong to and also for your parents
who related to which is your
neighbourhood where do you live and
better who can I ask to
about you a number of personal and
complicated questions don’t you think
this old lady is not a border patrol
agent with hats a gun and a button she
has got only some wrinkles red eyes a
lovely voice and the walking stick
imagine you in a speedo on em it’s a
sunny day a view of you are in the view
in the road passing through fuels houses
and a little church and the smiling face
is asking you about your whole story so
have you got your passport with you
have you checked it okay
suck it away and try to answer this nice
old lady probably my face remembers here
when I was a child just to ride in Italy
from Ukraine all nice old ladies of
Spadina stopped my mother in order to
pinch my cheeks in a welcoming sign it
been so hard that matrix became red
burning in their very big and calloused
hands as soon as they got near me I used
to close my eyes but I didn’t pull away
my face because it was a sort of ritual
initiation do you really want to be one
of at the little polished child in
spadonnay there are four time Ukrainians
more than poles but all white immigrants
suppose you know so do you really want
to be one of that that pertains to
spirulina okay give us a special
Ukrainian polish which have a cheek and
our strong fingers will transport them
into originals and sparin once they stop
pulling my cheeks when I turn ten they
had been pinching my cheeks for six long
years and only when the note is that my
cheeks weren’t actual is so different
from Italian wines latinum
a main piece no matter
akia party no no question for me they
knew that I was daughter of Nadia and
there are four from 8 to 20 million
people of your cranial region living
abroad in the world the number is quite
shaky just because there are some doubts
about how to consider people for example
like my brothers and all the members of
second and third generations eight or
twenty minutes
works many in Italy there are about 240
foreigners of Ukrainian region the fifth
largest freeboard community in the
country too many or not I can see it in
spirulina we are thirty four and five of
them are members of my family of an
amount of about 100 foreigners were too
few of us in my school and the only
student well that was not born in Italy
I’m alone too many or too few we will
never be the right number somebody
thinks that we are a part of our buying
horde someone else that we are heroes I
really can’t decide probably I am
barbarian hero but I know the stories
and everyday life of some of them for
example every morning Yulia walks down
three kilometers on foot walking with
her three children to school that’s why
she’s always late at work every evening
Olga gets bored so she never tires of
calling her son in Ukraine and when he
doesn’t answer she gets angry calls
friends and gossips every Sunday
Gallia’s goes to church that is so so
stickler with her daughter-in-law that
probably the poor girl will leave Dallas
zones as his former wife that has
escaped from her lucky here so everyday
life of average people so where are the
heroes where are the Burberry hoods that
I am wearing Europe on a little bike
like Natalia riding every day the most
unsafe state route near Naples
of that challenge with for his car or
the next conqueror will be Tania
that’s Victor Christ and hopes every
night will arrive here in Italy for
cemented signs her treatments okay I am
Anastacio better
anastasiya Alex and him now and I moved
to Italy from Ukraine when I was four
and I’m not a number and I don’t feel
intruding with Julia oh yeah
Galia Natalia Victor and Tanya we’re not
many I grown up feeling middle Ukrainian
or Italian a stranger to myself and a
foreigner in this and my own country
before I decided to spread myself out on
my own horizon for this contest for the
first contest for the sake TEDx youth I
prepared a speech about a cow yes about
a cow a big fat calming Freud cow it was
not a joke it was a holy symbol in my
childhood in the speech I did say that I
liked expressing myself when I draw even
though I never shown my drawings to
anyone but I didn’t say the most
important thing my mother when I met her
for the first time at the age of 4 was
the one who showed me how to do a cow
so cow was the first link with my mother
and I have been afraid of losing pits
for a bear a long time so I had always
my drawings kept away from anyone now
where in my past I also can all my
memories and I hidden there far away in
my mind so in the longest and I no
longer desert where was but some day
before the video contests
I found a folder when I had closed all
my sketches and keeping in hand one of
these crumbled sheets I simple real eyes
that’s all my dreams and expectations
had been closed in a folder for years I
have to say that my first pitch was so
straight and quite contradictory so I
had to prepare another one I was plenty
of thoughts without words so I finally
went to my mom
i sat in front of hair and I asked
please mama tell me my story and she
said do you really want our story I know
that and in strong and calm words she
gave me the reason why she and dad left
Ukraine searching a different life in a
foreign country she also said that
living Ukraine and me when I was just
one yield they wanted to earn enough
money to buy a washer I just advise hair
dryer and the refrigerator come back
home both very young 22 years old fallen
in love with the strength of my daddy
and the kindness of my mum as they soon
realized that Sparano was the right
maybe the best place will leave us
persons and not only as workers in my
time I have remade me with magnifier and
see Vinnitsa my mother told me also how
after three very long years my daddy
picked up me and took me home in an
early afternoon on my childhood a little
baby looking towards to see her mum in
every brown eyes with hope fear and a
lot of childish Inga until then I
thought that she had abandoned me
refused for a new life without me
but talking now Franklyn touched my
mother picked up me and took me home
again to my real home myself I cried a
lot preparing the second speech all
these years I misunderstood my mom I
thought that she was a treasures well
she was a nice a hearing that has lit up
my whole life so I’m here today telling
you about my true story a story about a
daughter of a couple of heroes and a
speak English in order to be
understandable to everyone here in Italy
and then in Ukraine speaking about the
price of
and the power of words how big are the
eyes of a child’s searching for her
mother
how long out the hours of a mother
without her daughter how many children
how many big guys are searching the way
to reach the hours of their mothers
I’ve been lucky very lucky Alan Kurdi
from kobani was only three when he had
closed for the last time his big brown
eyes looking for his mother in San miles
a Mediterranean Sea drowned between
Turkey and Greece I did my 20 hours bus
ride from Venus’s of Spiro Anna well he
did didn’t reach the European dream his
father is his is crying his normal
smiles no more dreams no more no more
words my mother taught me how to do a
cow and that’s had been the best moment
of my childhood since then I kept my
eyes wide opened and now understand that
migration is not a moment but a process
migrants want to be heard than to earn
we all as human beings needs problematic
and personal questions
we need more old ladies and dog on board
Border Patrol agents more stories and
less passports big guys close by
pinching ratings no more ice close by
tears shot and sent thank you for
attention
you
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