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Living by the frontier : how to unite rather than divide | Aude-Emilie Judaïque | TEDxCelsa


Yes
good evening everyone thank you for being here
Tonight is really a pleasure
as you know ready to welcome
inspiring ideas
I’m to the AUDE Emilia pulled
angie I know this is a bit complicated
I had a mom who wanted to call me
Aude preferred not issued
eventually they joined forces and
chose to call me Aude hyphen
Emilie my identity is the result of a
compromise between two very
different since my father was
West Indian and my mom and Picardy
then obviously they are two
French departments play rope
and yet they are two continents
culture and even language of religion
of different skin color
and then one day I was 14 this
Union fell apart and the
first time in my life I saw the
difference between my parents
I saw the border moved
them they were no longer
but completely complementary
opposite black on one side and white
the other as in a chess game
so at first I thought he was going
have to choose my camp be white
or be black
but how to choose between my father and
my mother
then finally I decided to advance
in the middle between the boxes
I decided to inhabit the border
consciously for me it was a little
as a hike on a path
peak up there
I felt that we were
still together
I had this big picture and therefore
I felt that we were
still together
inhabit the border it was very
reassuring because it was a way
not to take sides but the line
Crest
I do not know if you can see
it is very close to advance must
be very careful m slowly step
one foot before the other and above all
be small because otherwise
is the fall
then this is a paradox but inhabited
border is very reassuring and
same time it is inhabited fear and
Then one day on the occasion of a trip
abroad
I discovered a game called the
Paradox is just a kind of
power 4 wherein the goal is
aligning four balls of the same
white or black
The paradox is that to move a
cue ball for example and align
with others it is imperative
it is accompanied by a ball
Black one can not move forward without
each other and that means that even by
time to be able to move from one
your marbles
he’ll have to accept that it can
also benefit your opponent
I do not know who invented this game the
paradox but really is someone
I’d like to meet because
despite its apparent simplicity this game
reveals the true philosophy
compromise and the idea that in
life there is nothing on the other
then this idea gradually made
his way home and I decided
I decided to inhabit the border
I consciously decided to practice
in fact this is to practice what
I now call the paradox of
border that is that I live
proudly the border because it
it defines me through my
literally it makes me stand
and at the same time I am aware that
to advance should I associate this
who have the black in white in me is
what is black in less Aude line
union
Emilia and it goes further because
inhabit the border these books
the intersection where everything
meets I have realized when
I started traveling and I had
surprised to feel like home
in countries in cities as
different Toronto dakar Rome such
Aviv or Beirut
and then that feeling is still
reinforced when I started making
of couch surfing
I do not know if you know the
principle is to sleep Homestays
you are greeted by someone who
accepts free to leave you
sleeping on the couch and I find it even
had people that I had not
met leave me the keys to their
home and even their car in
mailbox with confidence
so if you do not know you I
urges attempt
experience because the small pass
apprehension
at first we did not really know where we are going
put your feet and then finally
meeting lots of different people
you are into their intimacy
you discover their places
favorite that you introduce yourself
friends sometimes even their families
and finally time for a trip
will you without making you feel at
you everywhere and gradually and although it is
my family has grown and
has expanded
language culture and colors
different yet the couch
surfing
it is nothing more than a good old
principle that practice since the dawn
times and called
hospitality among Greeks
antiquity e.g. philoxenia
he called it the philosophy xing love
literally the same foreign love
the unknown was well worth
sacred cardinal was even a
duty and at the time we evaluate
degree of civilization of a society
to how reindeer welcomed them
foreigners in the odyssey of homer by
eg slides during its journey
in Khost in the island of old facts
they know nothing of it they do
not know yet they
welcome it as a king he
organizes a banquet
they sing and recite poems
are honored and then before the
let it go back covers
literally this is the gift
model of civilization that promotes the
mayor
we say we the heirs of the
this great ancient greece
civilization has bequeathed us
the philosophy democracy
literature theater
but when we do this legacy
today disappeared from the Philoxenia
our vocabulary xenophobia well
fear of foreigners against her by her
saw a bright proof is that
in less than 30 years since the best
since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
was reconstructed more than 60 walls
borders over 69 and without being
realize
mature we feel because of the paradox
Wall is that it protects so that it
imprisoned
then how to resist it me
I belong to no organization no
political party is a mere
citizen but I have in my head a
little phrase that said Stephane
hessel and that really puts that keeps me
heart that I deliver Stephane
hessel said resist is to create and
create is to resist so I’m just
I have I am afraid that is that
for example at the moment I am
working in development
a virtual reality experience
in partnership with Migreurop
Observatory border idea
it is with headphones on
on the eyes to immerse themselves in a world
three-dimensional
you can create a new reality
where we can invent new
rules and in particular to overcome the
materiality of the border where
can for example decided to cross
a boundary such as a wall pass
where you can decide to make
them to trade it may be decided
delete it as an erasure on a page
on a blank page
and this is important because today
we are on the right side of the
border but tomorrow in history
nothing and what makes us eternal
reality our country today our
identities borders makes everything
it has never stopped evolving
ever and that’s good because
Life is movement
it is a constant fact in the history
of humanity
Man has always displaced
still it is in his nature
to be curious as to want to
see what is behind this
mountain beyond the sea despite
danger and that’s how little
pretty people and we
the entire planet that
Companies are that crops
evolved shots migratory waves
successive and uninterrupted slogan
ted of conferences not know if
Here I also hands you the top
ie the wedding boat people
Who Was try trying to no that
good ideas that deserve to be pro
tak spread and that changes the world and
also the people who wear them
then me since 2000 in 2012 well
I suggested to a France Culture
radio show on the history of
international migration
I decided to call this show
men with soles of wind
to date I have produced nearly 40
documentary on emigration and I
can tell you that if there is one thing
I am convinced of is that on
this matter we are made
preconceived ideas
Take natural borders
Example borders is said
natural they actually never are
in pyrénées e.g.
France-Spain border
not on the crest she cut
transhumance paths
multimillennial without
successfully cut links
solidarity between French and Catalan
Spaniards have welcomed
each other during the first war
World and the Franco dictatorship
same for the Mediterranean
Mediterranean Sea we consider
today as the Border
External europe
in fact for centuries it was
a comprehensive exchange and communication
of an intense exchange between
cultures as different as the
Greek Roman the Phoenician
Norman highly Carthaginian
Air Arabs finally all these nations
roamed the Mediterranean and
they left in the landscape and in
lifestyles traces that can
still admire today whether
in the islands or on or about
edges on the sea shores
Mediterranean
I’m used to that
the history of mankind has written
with the feet but it is in no
history book because it reduces
Migration has a dimension
policy as it is a reality
historical and anthropological
I am Metis and for you
understand this lack of knowledge
people against migration as
that Métis I sometimes enough
frequently meet people who
do not understand that I can be
French refuses even the idea that
I can just be in French
Because of this skin color then
border precisely it seems to me
is like the skin that must breathe
it must communicate this certainly is the
limit my area of my body
but at the same time this is where
My body breathes
and above all it is the gateway
by which I come into contact with
Other Parra in which I join with
other then to conclude I would like
you of what is for me
the largest teaching these five
years in celsa
I was taught to think out of the frame
out of the box
I think you all heard five
thousand times well I think we can
a paradigm shift that can be done
evolving a representation of the
border it can be seen as
hyphen, and that even if we want it
may add small arrows
end to make vectors
connectors with the exterior with
other what has made e.g.
famous street artist who banksy
come in the West Bank hotel
facing the separation wall between
Israeli and Palestinian
it welcomes people who come from
world to confront the
reality on the ground
beyond anything that can be
hear in the media about the conflict
Israeli-Palestinian and banks if
invites her to the wall
separation he invited them to invest
this space to make living in the
to support
because the border that is not
No Man’s Land
then I know I live it is up
to us to make the borders of
places of communication exchange
Dialogue meeting because what
is our humanity
it is precisely our ability to
connect with others to be traits
union
Thank you
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