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I’m Not Mexican | Paola Penalver | TEDxAmanaAcademy


Oh Harley UNAMI all up in your life

Yahoo soliton on you when i carly de

nombre es para pegar will do so happy

hello and good afternoon my name is

Melvin AMI so for those of them know me

or do you think I’m from Mexico Brazil

Spain most of the time people didn’t

Mexico only because i have lyme parents

as influence manage and then because of

my peers there are over 20

spanish-speaking countries so why out of

all of them you choose fixable so over

the summer for now is going to seventh

grade my parents sent me to the wipes a

super naked when i arrived at camp

everybody already made assumptions about

me they asked me do you like something

are you Mexican what’s this in Spanish

my camp counselor camino de brazil every

time I walked by I was used to all the

comics but it’s so loud and I thought

might have had that ties so how many

some people don’t know how the question

right Roman can be offensive at times

some people told us push into every day

how do you think they feel nobody can

just be like Oh jump on here any wise

summative Spanish she couldn’t be

Swedish you get to know her and even

matter nobody can define who I am and

nobody can define pretty boy I am a

standing my parents are running with his

Lola my mom was one of the governed by

custom my dad was one of our solar I

will want to know like Oh flora when I

was a little girl living in Orlando I

learned Spanish a home and maybe chiffon

wasn’t in school I was violated walk

after the age of three in that fact I

people super is Brad in Orlando

everybody thought it was cute when I

went to may hear me on vacation

measurement I was pretty good I realized

that people thought I was an Hispanic

country the most familiar with I’m most

common to that area just because of one

tiny feature before Deus in New York and

I’m not only saving for Hispanics I’m

thinking for all if their dicks Arab

Japanese Jewish I’m trying to be always

regular words such as this fine

are limiting we come in all different

shapes sizes colors and dialects there’s

no word that fits all learn to happen

everybody is different the only were not

could distract everyone in the world is

he look I’m CUBAN but people didn’t get

it because also a basket any new jersey

of the first kind of dating so just like

Oh what are you are you black are you

like I didn’t feel like I make a choice

I mean what I am christening even famous

peoples over this issue well I love my

quota and I found to be setting some

people don’t know that the questions

where you from can be offensive but when

they ask in a certain way raise your

hand if you can ask the question where

are you from and answered it but the

person that asks you said no you don’t

look like you’re from there nobody can

just act like they know someone for the

person has themselves that’s just not

right don’t think those notice is that

kids feel like they were more from their

parents are funny that were there from

for example if you also kick that feels

like this and they were born in Iowa and

then we had supported Lebanon and you

ask the key word here she disarmed huge

she is innocent Lebanon is that was

calling all this confusion I felt like

this before well people ask me I was

from I would save in a soil I were

always save it as well well I love my

bizzle oh I used to go there every

summer to the revolution started to me-

all like I wasn’t born there I’m

American but I come from a Venezuelan

line the question where you from can

confuse it with many people and I think

when you start to clear the division

right now one of our design principles

in amanda is diversity clean what it

means is out here on holiday bridge and

conclude and accept everyone for who

they are your race ethnicity religion

coach it defines New York and you know

you can define who you are embrace your

culture be proud of it because

other genes that make you feel remember

there is no justin hasn’t one type of

person my name is brought up in a bit

and I am Who I am thank [Applause]

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