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Cultural acceptance and sharing | Sopheak Thy | TEDxISPP


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to me home is very friendly and have to
play express my childish itself even
though I’m 15 years old when I saw a
one-year-old a three years a six year
old and a 10 year olds I want to be able
to test it with jokes that sometime did
not make any sense and trust me they
never make sense I want to be able to
talk all day about my obsession with
Harry Potter
Pikachu Durham on and ticket money but
most importantly home is your their
support that’s what only to me everyone
to find what home definitely so I listen
to my talk I want you to think about
what this home mean to you as a person
and how would you all feel if you lost
it we live in a complex world was
diverse people cultures traditions
religions and languages every individual
somehow contribute to the changes in a
society therefore we should acknowledge
and celebrate a variation in culture and
identity I grew up in a rural part of
Cambodia with limited access to the
virgin mostly about five years ago only
small percentage of the villagers had
access to any modern technology it was a
very small village so we only enjoy
all the time there wasn’t much cultural
exchange among us because we have so
much in common already yet now it is
changing drastically today almost
everyone had smartphones and access to
the Internet and are therefore more
aware of the changes in their society
and the world despite having access to
the Internet and connection to different
places their understanding of human
differences are still limited despite of
the limitation in my community I was
taught by my parents and relatives about
Cambodian culture and customs the
religion of the people and the minority
of my country and as a new order I was
exposed to Bursa people from many
different backgrounds some whom I could
learn about 2 years ago I went to munagi
for a school project called hidden
voices and we travel to many different
provinces to discover all the motives of
those who could still sing them and the
personal stories and as we know that
we’ll call it a podcast
and singers that were discovered we have
interviewed many others and visited one
of the podium minority group the preneur
community the prom ion’s lived in the
debrief about 2000 years they used to
live in houses made of bamboo natural
material attached they have their own
language with my alphabet as far as
belief news date and culture when we
were there they host a traditional sir
welcoming and gaga ceremony for us as
visitors with music and wine well which
our teacher had to join me as a
representative of all of us because we
were 200 as a majority in this country
we might people had a huge influence to
those communities lifestyle it wasn’t my
first time visiting of Nam village so I
could see the tremendous changes in
their society because of my influence
over time I what is that more people who
speak my as before only no man could
speak the language and nowadays if no
children are born they start to learn
both languages right away my and no less
unless people know how to play the
traditional instrument
and the music the clothing and houses
are more modern I along with my
teammates interviewed an old man one of
the elders in the community and he
stated back I never used to worry about
the extinction of our culture but when I
think about it again and again I start I
notice that it’s faded the old man used
to remember what the community was like
and had witnessed the changes what about
the next generation would they be able
to interact with their amazing culture
what about those refugees who become the
minority group in another country
imagine yourself in their shoes how much
would you have to go through to preserve
your culture as well as striving to
assimilate to the community that you
live in and that everybody in your
country called me away
formerly Burma Myanmar is a country
located in Southeast Asia consisting a
hundred as we go the country’s border
with India China Laos Thailand and
McClendon the country is led by the
Nobel Peace Prize winner I’m sorry chief
so why now as we all sit in this
comfortable luxurious dinner row hanga
people part of the Muslim minority are
fleeing to join the more than 600,000 my
refugees that have left Myanmar to Mecca
– since August 25th those people were
forced to leave their home because of
the persecution from the
specifically the Myanmar troops and most
of whom are Buddhists many lives are
taken and families were separated in the
situation like that with this whole
culture and safety human to death where
we love is home home an offering made me
but not a heart we can think about
culture this way if the community is a
computer then contract is like an
operating system
it’s what to keep people together and
bond it according to another person
a measly use as I talked about some
costly work done with bingo refugees
most refugees including children are
traumatized by the horrifying event that
they experienced the question now is how
would they specifically children with a
long life after being forced from their
homes and everything they know there
were there are literally thousands of
heartbreaking stories but I would like
to share one that stuck with me most a
pregnant woman in travail 20 is trying
to cross the back limit just like the
others sadly before she could make it
she had to witness the death of her
husband and relatives the loss of what
your child and she gave birth to a
newborn
she walked days along with her baby to
the safety of metal village as a mother
as a father as a child seeing family
members going through those traumatic
experiences at that moment getting away
from being abused for safety
their only priority the one home and
safety just men seeking shelter and
having enough food to eat daily what
about culture does it mean anything to
them what keep them together there’s no
answer becoming a minority group in
another country means facing with many
challenges such as exclusion for my
society adjusting to the new place and
having one’s culture be somehow less
appreciated it is therefore it is really
important to teach young people about
the variety of culture in this world so
that we will have to raise awareness and
prevent any form of discrimination
toward minority group including refugees
it is our responsibility to preserve
difficult and assess those people
without pressuring them to adapt to a
majority norm
yes I understand that the world is
changing as well as the people inside it
al Wallace is developing with modern
technologies artificial intelligence and
so much more than make our lives so much
easier but at the same time
beliefs and different ways of living we
must understand where we come from a
home and in the culture we live in a
world with other seven point six billion
people we must know what keeps you put
together a knowledge of differences as
well as of history
appreciate what we have before it turns
into one
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