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Global Citizenship | Nishi Felton & Aliki Antoniou | TEDxUWCSA


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next when we face terrible questions
like kuma monument whether in the long
and as you move past those questions to
assist with being a person the way to go
back to trying to figure out what
creating identities trying to figure out
what created who we are
I did not until recently in writing this
tool this talk is not a sideline
employee how to figure out who you are
because that’s entirely your job this is
simply about what society did to our
identities humans by having created the
societies we’ve created have helped
solve any problems and issues as social
beings the societies we have created are
integral to who we are but at the same
time those fate societies have created
new issues such as what happens to those
people does not quite fit in or belong
to that society the reasons for
exclusion can vary from having the same
skin color or the same religion to not
speaking the same language
people can always find a reason why you
don’t belong to them but you rather be
over somewhere else in my case that was
my little nationality and bilingualism
my mother stopped Germany and my
father’s from Greece Greek and German
are militants although some people
cannot directly identify me as one or
the other
once my nationality comes out they will
say so
like yes I can hear you exit and vice
versa so that’s how all those freshmen
started which is in real time now I mean
just we mean you don’t know which one do
you count it which one you dream it
maybe if a job three times and I come to
30 backwards the language of thinking is
my mother tongue I never quite
understood by back at home this make me
is so different from the rest of my
class but apparently did it was is and
will be an excuse to exclude me from
conversation or listen to my opinion my
experiences were of a slightly different
form and yet it’s amazing how similar
their effect is when I came to Ottoman
it was you I was passed around and they
sent Namibia because it was the most
obvious part that it was where I was
born it was where I grew up so you can
imagine my surprise when people asked so
where are you really from the
nationalities of my parents and they
said okay so you’re German I have a
theory about the phenomenon of exclusion
I think that people want to ensure that
the people who may identify with are a
few a number because this makes us more
special let’s talk about opposites for a
minute or second sister all those
circles it’s erased
the gender we’ve chosen or we’ve been
assigned to the people we know we trust
we love with just people all right also
the languages we speak and the places
with women are we through nothing all
this ends up and has been that tiny dot
that includes all those circles and
you’re telling us that from that dot you
choose to refer to what single strand
that it consists up in mind
there wasn’t upset about someone else
telling me that I had to be German
but eventually I came to the conclusion
that like it really really doesn’t
matter because I am German – my mother’s
culture hasn’t left me entirely
untouched but now I German at worth it I
say the night German I do the German
stove in a proceeding and my happy weeks
I said that I’m German and when I say
that I have German to attack
I feel like fraud which brings me to the
topic of societal expectations once
people recognize me as foreign the other
questions start there ones that make me
feel as it’s the way I identify myself
is wrong why am i living in Germany why
were you chosen to represent the country
that you are really from and
international expectations started and I
had to start to keep more and more and
endlessly more boxes although I never
even understood in the first place why I
have to be half something and have
something else why I just couldn’t be a
part of two holes because when it comes
to identities because I saw so many
things the people we love the things
we’ve been even people we hate so how
much difference my already existing
nationality complex goodnight 20 years
have to say yes a million employees and
partially from Waterford
and somehow tied it up here when people
ask where are you from
they don’t actually expect an answer
longer than four words they are not
ready to listen to your life story
my discomfort means that I feel the need
to prove myself enough I’m uncomfortable
in admitting I don’t know something
because I’m afraid that that will
immediately disqualified you know my
nationality because I don’t fit in
perfectly I need to qualify in a higher
level than everyone else I believe this
is a general phenomenon if our illusion
is not going to eat then we need to work
twice as hard in Earth in order to
obtain in order to ensure it one might
even call us lifelong participant
observers this simply means that we
become aware of our society by not being
fully part of it whether that’s our
choice or not as a concept it forces us
to observe reflect and realize our
culture and the participant of those
cultures by participating in more than
one culture recognizing the main social
constructs and terms faster than
everyone else because otherwise we can’t
even be able to participate in that
culture then the code by Anthony P :
people become more with their culture
with a standards balance it’s describing
our situations perfectly as when you
stand at the end of the ordinary
culture you can observe both sites not
just one globalization has made our
situation our identity elements very
common there’s so many of us the
language will be able to master English
math to fit into which passport to all
and dwell so the global society had to
create a whole new box just because all
in the third culture that culture kid
uck or third culture individual is used
to refer to children raised in the
culture different movement parents or
the cultural country given the child’s
passport with immediately considered
native four significant parts are early
developmental years to me TCK TCK shoes
and now statistics even show that the
number of bilingual children has reached
the number of monolingual children and
there are more statistics and more
research to it because according for the
global society to accept us they need
data the cruise we exist
their message supposedly coming from
this box
this concept is TCK is that it’s not
only okay to
different but it’s also okay to not know
to what extent you are different the
term can often be accessed as those
children can be called the citizens of
everywhere addictive instead types such
as those those people can be open-minded
but it wasn’t but then how many people
actually identify with that box that
TCK and how significant is it moving out
of your so-called in country does it
matter
are you still considered a member of a
society you haven’t lived in a long time
does it matter if immigrated alone or is
a family or is a whole community as
society is a circle that’s constantly in
movement so once you step out of that
circle you will probably have to state
when and also depending on society why
you left that society and having stepped
out of that circle it’s almost
impossible to integrate back into it
again especially as an international
student living abroad a few weeks or
months back in that country society what
really resolving you being a full member
is where before I just find your tight
self spending an unhealthy amount of
time in earthly and buses and ships and
cars while desperately trying
remember both to society’s baby of
obviously only a TCK would actually be a
positive thing because it gives me
something to identify myself with but at
the same time I don’t really identify
with say a half chinese half American
living in Denmark because we don’t
really have any of the same experiences
I have my own box and maybe I’m the only
person that really fits into it I am NOT
half determinants of British whenever I
say this to someone and I have to admit
the read of India I pictured dotted line
that splits me into nationalities as if
I made up some spare parts that were
thrown together to make a whole human
being which is a ridiculous way to do
myself because all I am really is a
mixture of some elements and we are
really none of us just one thing we have
our own box and typically into a box it
needs to meet especially for us they
need to exclude everybody else in a
place where we promote diversity and
multiculturalism and every other great
aspect of you know you see we need to
consider not fitting in diversity
implies being maybe much fun but every
part every person who receives treated
as if they are one thing the person from
valency who’s from that country the
person from Uganda is treated as
representative of all Yama’s if you
speak to a person from China about their
opinion on abortion there’s a sense of
carrying the Chinese perspective on the
court
we all do this I do this it’ll be
something that we to speak about because
each person is an individual and we
think that we know this but we still say
that Christopher mentally and maybe in
spite you that the system specification
if you’ve ever these people do need
systems of classification in order to
process the world but I also think that
it leaves no place for any of us if we
don’t recognize that all it is is a
system of classification and not a
representation of the person an
interesting aspect of this talk is that
many of us think that nationalities
don’t matter but in a way they do
because they shape us and they give us
direction we learn our cultures and they
affect us for the rest of our lives the
degrees which they matter is dependent
on our own personalities but how many of
you would say that we’re or not has not
had the slightest impact on who you are
we in success everything that influences
our identities and what makes us who we
are
we also need to acceptance of the else
thinks that something exerts a strong
influence on who they are which means
accepting for the tenth generation
african-american is influenced by a
sense of African identity it means
accepting that the first generation
Swasey is also influenced by Africa
means basically self-identification
self-identification is something that
characterizes the awareness of ourselves
and the place that we find for ourselves
in the world in VTOL continuously my
identification of the Nubian was an
expression of a white wish to belong to
the greater african continent my
identity was possibly changed because I
could no longer allow myself to express
something that had been integral to who
I was and in not expressing this
identity I have disconnected I am no
longer Dominion in my mind and I also
have not German nor I British maybe this
is not a terrible thing I believe that
in time I would have lost the need to
belong to a country anyway because
identity change over time the point is
that somebody else made the choice for
me and that’s harder for me to accept
all of you at some point have chosen one
identity over another it could have been
something very small but the point is
that you chose it so the question is
were you forced to choose it or did it
just develop naturally and if you’re
forced to choose it do you ever wonder
what your perception of yourself would
be if you had gone the other way I think
that the view that society has who you
are or who you can be means that you
even need to change the things that you
present a society will change the view
of society naturally young as
now changing the matter but it wouldn’t
close at the age of 12 so think about
your situation and just ask yourself
what influenced the question is all of
the actual answer I have no idea if
you’re living for university or for
whatever it is you want to be in your
life
how much of these places will go with
you how much how much will you be
allowed to choose for yourself who you
are and how much
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