eighteen years ago were living in Texas
as a young mother of a two-year-old I’m
enjoying a beautiful sunny day at the
playground another child approaches look
at us and he screamed really loud to her
mother
look mommy brought people I was shocked
not just because this little girl run
away from us really a scare but because
if the staining came from tears a little
child allow me to take you on a brief
tour that will help me to explain how
these personal experiences as being cold
brown helped me to reflect about
discrimination and how this changed my
perspective about diversity I was born
and raised in Ecuador South America and
I left when I was 19 years old since
then I have live and work in very
different countries for you to
understand where I’m coming from let me
explain how in Ecuador and the other
countries in South America people see
themselves the norm is that we are a
mixture we are called mestizos but the
norm among upper-middle class
Ecuadorians is to self-identify as white
as wine it in this case has not to do
anything with race but with class and
socioeconomic status so while growing up
in my a small town in Ecuador I did not
realize how privileged I was not to be
discriminated because of this
assignation as a why mestizo but this
was about to change when I moved to the
United State I was not anymore away
mestizo I was brown I my experience with
discrimination started but again this
was about to change after just two years
I moved to Kabong Africa and one more
time I was with Mary a small kid Matteo
he asked me to say his name in this
presentation we were trying to blend in
to be part of this new society it was
all new one day we went to the market
he was crowded it was colorful
settlements view suddenly I scream I
hear kids screaming they were screaming
the branch to lunch I did not speak
French very well
but I could understand they were saying
the wife wife I look around I what
trying to see where they were pointing
us anyways remember the last time I was
brown they were pointing at us they were
calling us what I was really surprised
after several years of news to Malaysia
and my experience in Malaysia has
nothing to do with what people were
seeing anyway they were seeing me more
or less as like my experience in
Malaysia working for a nonprofit
organization working with refugees from
different countries around the world let
me understand the discrimination is not
just about polish alright discrimination
can be based on religion culture customs
age gender I was able to relate to their
stories I was able to feel how it feels
to be discriminated in this case their
migration status as refugees was the
base to discriminate them and label them
as dangerous anyway they will meet them
they were not supposed to be in this
country several years have passed since
I was called brown or white or brown or
Y depending on where I was living or
working in the United States I was a
brown person and so I was labeled and
this label came attached to a
stereotypes this label read illegal
immigrant illiterate poor dangerous in
other countries I was a white person and
this label came with another set of
words completely different I was an
expat and expert a rich I was handed I
did not enjoy being called brand
worldwide
I just wanted to be seen as myself I
just wanted to be seen as a person a
professional a woman a friend a mother
I just wanted to teaching as a human
being this made me team that
something that is really important for
me is to live under the golden rule this
idea that you should treat others as you
should treat as you would like to be
treated yourself and this made me think
that is time for me to empower what
empower me empower me to give somebody
the strength to make somebody more
confident that claim the right and live
their life I want to empower myself I
want to empower myself out of either my
gender my age my color I am foremost a
human being with my young as strengths
my your weaknesses why I’m sharing this
story with you is not because I want to
charge those who label me or not because
I want to point out to several countries
that blaming us for pointless prom I
just wanted to make a point when I was
moving to brown to white to brown to
white I’m thinking about this new
racially diverse emojis but I’ve no time
mercy I’m just a human person a human
being a person who has been assigned
different colors depending on where I
work depending on place history customs
let me tell you something about these
little kids these refugee kids in
Malaysia refugee kids cannot go to
school so we have to open up by school
for Refugees it was not very difficult
to tilt in mathematics science language
one of the most difficulty was to piss
these kids not to discriminate not to
discriminate others although they were
coming from work although Syrians were
in the same classrooms with Iranians and
they were in war that was the one or
more difficult thing that we have to do
and if we were able to educate these
kids not to discriminate and just to see
each other as human beings we can also
do it here so why not start today why
not we’ll start right now to empower
ourselves to promote diversity and
inspire others to act now I want you to
go home and think about
the struggles of all the people that in
one way or another have been
discriminated because of legal acts
sometimes that we don’t understand I
want it to be aware of your actions on
you wars be aware that maybe you can
make mistakes but what do we need to
educate ourselves to promote mutual
understanding and respect in preparing
for this talk I’ve read a quote from one
Shama Maya Angelou who says it’s time
for parents to educate their kids that
in diversity there is beauty and
strength so why not they start today why
not to a star right now educating in
your own house in our own homes to teach
them to empower diversity you don’t need
to go to college or udemy to go to
university or get a PhD you just need to
empower yourself and inspire others to
recognize that in diversity there is
beauty and a strain thank you [Applause]
as a young mother of a two-year-old I’m
enjoying a beautiful sunny day at the
playground another child approaches look
at us and he screamed really loud to her
mother
look mommy brought people I was shocked
not just because this little girl run
away from us really a scare but because
if the staining came from tears a little
child allow me to take you on a brief
tour that will help me to explain how
these personal experiences as being cold
brown helped me to reflect about
discrimination and how this changed my
perspective about diversity I was born
and raised in Ecuador South America and
I left when I was 19 years old since
then I have live and work in very
different countries for you to
understand where I’m coming from let me
explain how in Ecuador and the other
countries in South America people see
themselves the norm is that we are a
mixture we are called mestizos but the
norm among upper-middle class
Ecuadorians is to self-identify as white
as wine it in this case has not to do
anything with race but with class and
socioeconomic status so while growing up
in my a small town in Ecuador I did not
realize how privileged I was not to be
discriminated because of this
assignation as a why mestizo but this
was about to change when I moved to the
United State I was not anymore away
mestizo I was brown I my experience with
discrimination started but again this
was about to change after just two years
I moved to Kabong Africa and one more
time I was with Mary a small kid Matteo
he asked me to say his name in this
presentation we were trying to blend in
to be part of this new society it was
all new one day we went to the market
he was crowded it was colorful
settlements view suddenly I scream I
hear kids screaming they were screaming
the branch to lunch I did not speak
French very well
but I could understand they were saying
the wife wife I look around I what
trying to see where they were pointing
us anyways remember the last time I was
brown they were pointing at us they were
calling us what I was really surprised
after several years of news to Malaysia
and my experience in Malaysia has
nothing to do with what people were
seeing anyway they were seeing me more
or less as like my experience in
Malaysia working for a nonprofit
organization working with refugees from
different countries around the world let
me understand the discrimination is not
just about polish alright discrimination
can be based on religion culture customs
age gender I was able to relate to their
stories I was able to feel how it feels
to be discriminated in this case their
migration status as refugees was the
base to discriminate them and label them
as dangerous anyway they will meet them
they were not supposed to be in this
country several years have passed since
I was called brown or white or brown or
Y depending on where I was living or
working in the United States I was a
brown person and so I was labeled and
this label came attached to a
stereotypes this label read illegal
immigrant illiterate poor dangerous in
other countries I was a white person and
this label came with another set of
words completely different I was an
expat and expert a rich I was handed I
did not enjoy being called brand
worldwide
I just wanted to be seen as myself I
just wanted to be seen as a person a
professional a woman a friend a mother
I just wanted to teaching as a human
being this made me team that
something that is really important for
me is to live under the golden rule this
idea that you should treat others as you
should treat as you would like to be
treated yourself and this made me think
that is time for me to empower what
empower me empower me to give somebody
the strength to make somebody more
confident that claim the right and live
their life I want to empower myself I
want to empower myself out of either my
gender my age my color I am foremost a
human being with my young as strengths
my your weaknesses why I’m sharing this
story with you is not because I want to
charge those who label me or not because
I want to point out to several countries
that blaming us for pointless prom I
just wanted to make a point when I was
moving to brown to white to brown to
white I’m thinking about this new
racially diverse emojis but I’ve no time
mercy I’m just a human person a human
being a person who has been assigned
different colors depending on where I
work depending on place history customs
let me tell you something about these
little kids these refugee kids in
Malaysia refugee kids cannot go to
school so we have to open up by school
for Refugees it was not very difficult
to tilt in mathematics science language
one of the most difficulty was to piss
these kids not to discriminate not to
discriminate others although they were
coming from work although Syrians were
in the same classrooms with Iranians and
they were in war that was the one or
more difficult thing that we have to do
and if we were able to educate these
kids not to discriminate and just to see
each other as human beings we can also
do it here so why not start today why
not we’ll start right now to empower
ourselves to promote diversity and
inspire others to act now I want you to
go home and think about
the struggles of all the people that in
one way or another have been
discriminated because of legal acts
sometimes that we don’t understand I
want it to be aware of your actions on
you wars be aware that maybe you can
make mistakes but what do we need to
educate ourselves to promote mutual
understanding and respect in preparing
for this talk I’ve read a quote from one
Shama Maya Angelou who says it’s time
for parents to educate their kids that
in diversity there is beauty and
strength so why not they start today why
not to a star right now educating in
your own house in our own homes to teach
them to empower diversity you don’t need
to go to college or udemy to go to
university or get a PhD you just need to
empower yourself and inspire others to
recognize that in diversity there is
beauty and a strain thank you [Applause]
Please follow and like us: