my name is freshers I’m 16 and today I
want to talk about parents kids and the
future so when people think are
preparing us for the future the first
thing that comes to mind is education
parents seems to have a simple concept
good grades in school studying abroad a
financially secure future and therefore
long term happiness but for some parents
even good grades aren’t enough no their
kids need to be better than other kids I
would need to be better than my friends
and this idea of competition is
encouraged by the system itself every
year instead of appreciating all the
other students who worked hard enough to
get an A the system comes out with a
list of the top ten students and they’re
seen as better than everyone else but
these parents can’t be blamed for their
misguided goals growing up in a
developing country they understand the
struggle for education better than
anyone else
they know the potential of that
education has for us and they’ll do
anything to give us the future that they
never had even if it means seven hours
of school followed by five more hours of
tuition see I go to an international
school and I’m fully aware that I’m very
lucky to be able to do so because at my
school were encouraged to ask questions
and wonder why and give opposing
viewpoints and I’m not saying the
systems are all perfect the idea of
competition is still very much there but
I’m not expected to memorize an entire
textbook just to repeat it all in the
exam and I don’t have to deal with being
struck with a ruler in front of my
entire class just because I forgot my
homework that day this is what my
friends at
many schools still have to deal with
every single day on top of all the
normal pressures there being the best
and sure kids learn to be obedient and
yeah they get good grades but what
people need to understand is that this
comes with a cost
this costs us our independence this
costs us our curiosity and this costs us
our freedom which is why my drink for
tomorrow is for parents to appreciate
their kids for the unique individuals
that they are instead of appreciating
them solely for the grace that they get
thank you
Holloway Ming lava tsunami so Salima
so know that transgender bandy about
LGBT bar road in a key my LGBT physical
only unrestrainedly Monroe trauma
tomorrow
whoo narrator eerie male Karenga LGBT to
Muhammad Ali when Emma LGBT education
denier do they are following on par with
my mother who I know negativities what
she gave Ari I’m a teenager ditching ,
people in in a La Nina LGBT was no Kuni
an IRA they made really my LGBT wrote a
light on it which we hope is any other
if you tell me on me tomorrow
so Turner arena the cynic Nantucket
invisible minority today getting is our
channel area truly will meet and really
he will never kind of got me to do to
move on winning original rule lemonade
and evolve know our cable so DeLorean
didn’t want my childhood same a Marcus a
LGBT fifty
whom Ivanka what I want component
Indonesian justice and I are a surgeon
or oh-ho let Mackenzie I went in my name
is Yessenia talent and only did I told
me on it safe easy mood cool away a
chicken and would you ask him or not on
the engine I think we remove the coolant
not have a cooler tomorrow young John
may my a mutiny the media the unique a
comma general attention are a
magnificent didn’t I do Muhsin only
Chameli I did it is our Emma no chopping
down boom a muppet on no channel me
Malcolm
sorry it’s a known ami you do that you
can Atari tomorrow LGBTQ and in an hour
every evening who person in America
Shannon and I are a video channel
revolutionary month-long Dona Tenorio
hibari my fellow geography better yet in
a diary
I’d imagine of your tanaga tomorrow your
job be done moving my beat down your
child only my mom for our tech new the
have example new dog on people I
initiated or tomorrow so now you’re a og
I do not have mu nu Donovan Tom we are
young will get Eve I you know am idea
mom is a base is very muddy of yoga I
got a cushy body
mnemonic Emma Japan I’ll go get another
which Onaga I think I’ve ever knocked
anybody
certain already
it’s already Linda can move where
director already but to whether Marie
Hamada quadratus am but she Busan
Incheon already bow which even your
prison is our money so I began to notice
on iro LGBT Saleh Lorena do Bobby LGBT
de mama unique among all me an LGBT Mei
she did not were your me Bob would look
trainee they call me mama I go out
happier LGBT she never company I don’t
know where else indication about him so
me my god no joke on kitchen inter do
that on people who TB Bora
so now Kobe admitted by takua
non-denominational person ro tomorrow
LGBT near to who take care that you can
sorry Busan are not a period who piloted
the coop throwing out that my ship all
of North America
I don’t do it in mind hi everyone my
name is Nicole my mother continued
pursuing her carrier as a lawyer after
she had my elder brother and although
she did her best in balancing the world
life routine she was not considered
kindly by her friends and family members
every time anything went wrong with my
brother say having a scratch on his
knees or even catching a fever she had
to take the convenient blame for being a
young walking mom
well first for 35 years a close friend
of mine recently give birth to a
beautiful baby girl and she left her
successful accounting career behind
willingly happily and without any second
thoughts
why she should be considered a trophy
moms by the standards a few decades ago
she was considered at someone who
stopped achieving professionally and
someone chosen a life of mundane
stay-at-home mom so yes in this simple
example we might not be defined by the
same norms that existed in our parents
days but still by the new ones that
equally intertwine with ones
freedom of choice we so proudly say that
our society today is more tolerant than
ever towards race religion gender or
sexual orientation
and yet our very own individuality our
opinions our actions no matter how
personal or harmless the earth has never
been more openly judged especially these
days with the easy access to social
media it’s just a matter of few clicks
to put someone under the microscope and
do the correct assassination should we
agree to pay those hidden prizes for the
advances of the time we live in it is
time we question ourselves whether we’re
actually being considerate towards
friends families or even strangers on
social media before putting them against
our own sets of beliefs and standards I
believe we all have seen that scene in
the movie where a policeman handcuffs a
person takes them to the court and say
anything you say can or will be used
against you well the irony today is that
you don’t need handcuffs or to stand in
front of a judge to be criticized
harshly to be precise and apologetically
to be criticized irrationally for
anything we say do you feel we tell our
children to follow their dreams and it’s
okay to be different but what kind of
world will we live in for them if we
don’t start to defend the right of
individuality and expressing oneself
against the watchful norms I was hot
enough already without the outside
expectations on the choices you make
with your partner career or who you hang
out with my dream for tomorrow is we
individuals should be able to make
different right decisions at different
times in our lives and the Liberty and
right to do so should be ours and ours
[Applause]
tomorrow I’ll tell me something
localization to deliver a see tomorrow
satellite channel – booyah – my area
that we went on a trip or even on a
sunny afternoon GG ugly today don’t say
Allah
totally somewhere amino – schiavelli
autogenic on your car sandwich honorable
yeah absolutely
who sit on your leader – who are they
typically never having metal occupying
the netted knee so sorry so sorry TT a
congruent Oh Peter Peter Kotori notice
our invidual tomorrow
Schiaparelli through local civil
debatable tomorrow chia pet
Maria de la lucha hello domination
visually potato me anyway
not a lot of Mariela people to whom
Sentaro
salvia sorry not the public are very
adamant about
Peabody a heroine who till ability a
large publicly Navajo bow tie alone for
the kitchen table a me Mario – Mario who
okay Natalia to solution so here’s how
you look at my book Lulu to buy a
skydiver be over tomorrow if Dean is
Nene found a solution
we are Ogawa I could say I wanna jump in
the area
canary canary channel to manage of
Vieira Baba tamale a couch or Vinny is
young a Lube a large chopper a Murray
clear tomorrow and I can look your re-of
a chihuahua the clearly the illusion of
mobile Pancho Villa
Maurice a tiara
kuba ka’s de comercio Carla the cleavage
to compare a Turia suit on anybody and
the team are depleting the launching of
it’s my another moment ago so girls are
you illusion happy community tonight a
Takei not do it nah let go pop your sins
are to call today another panache in
my name is Trenton and I am masada
I have made a lot of mistakes in bad
choices but there is only one thing that
I still regret three years ago my father
looked right at me and said son it is
wrong to be gay and you still have time
to change I knew and had accepted myself
as gay when I was 13 and it was not easy
when my father asked me to change of
course I wanted to change well at least
I tried like everybody here I never
wanted to get bullied in high school I
wanted to oh my boyfriend’s had like
other couples too I wanted to be the son
that my father wanted I do not regret
being gay but the fact that I said
nothing back and replied to my father
back then I just said there and not it I
think the problem here is the lack of
communication between parents and
children
heart-to-heart communications are the
the full concept of a person being gay
is so bizarre and so unreal to our
parents that they almost immediately
rejected they are like children who do
not want to eat broccoli when they’ve
never tried it before the road to
acceptance is trust and faith and this
time taking process comes with
conversations that matter perceptions
takes time to change and so is the case
with my father the problem shall persist
but in this case I know that I am being
true to myself and in the long run this
shall help
everybody has the right to love who they
want currently I am in the process of
proving my father that I am a capable
person
my parents have not accepted the fact
that I’m gay yet I love love love my mom
and dad so much and I am 100% sure that
they love me way more than I love them
that’s why I hid my heart I believe that
one day they will there will be a day
when all parents can be able to have
both eyes with their children once they
step out of their comfort zone trying to
understand their perspective the only
problem ever starts the moment you stop
communicating is a one go to
relationship advice to all of my friends
so I urge everyone to talk now is the
time that we start speaking loud and
clear to our families friends and
communities and speak about our
differences my dream for tomorrow is a
society in which everyone can proudly be
themselves and accept them as they are
my name is Joe dirtay I am an
engineering student by profession and a
student advocate I passion when I was a
kid I couldn’t wait to grow up and go to
university
mainly because high school was boring we
we couldn’t speak we had to sit all day
looking at those like an white textbook
where else in the university I imagine
there’ll be people singing dancing
debating sport cartoons and poems I am
also inspired by general unsung and the
Students Union leaders that stood up
against the British for independence so
in 2012 after graduating from high
school I joined Yangon Technological
University previously known as RIT just
to find out that it’s also empty
it’s like going to high school all over
again and it didn’t it didn’t feel right
so we held the first elections to
reestablish the Student Union the
literature talks the sports festivals
and everything that we could imagine we
see students unions are highly
influential in yanmar political movement
RIT in nineteen nineteen eighty eight
would be a brilliant example other thing
and we really cherish that that that
history that legacy at the same time we
believe that political advocacy can be
done in many different ways in our case
we dedicated to empower our students by
connecting them with the best global
practices we are a bunch of engineering
students but let’s talk about
entrepreneurship Center T and climate
change let’s do a Model UN or a Moodle
Austrian meeting let’s organize an
innovation competition to find creative
solution to our society which we just
did on how to build a small city of the
in this narrow the fourth Industrial
Revolution does not limit what a
Students Union can or cannot do or they
are far greater challenges nationally
and globally my dream for tomorrow is to
revitalize the campus life of Myanmar
[Applause] [Music]
want to talk about parents kids and the
future so when people think are
preparing us for the future the first
thing that comes to mind is education
parents seems to have a simple concept
good grades in school studying abroad a
financially secure future and therefore
long term happiness but for some parents
even good grades aren’t enough no their
kids need to be better than other kids I
would need to be better than my friends
and this idea of competition is
encouraged by the system itself every
year instead of appreciating all the
other students who worked hard enough to
get an A the system comes out with a
list of the top ten students and they’re
seen as better than everyone else but
these parents can’t be blamed for their
misguided goals growing up in a
developing country they understand the
struggle for education better than
anyone else
they know the potential of that
education has for us and they’ll do
anything to give us the future that they
never had even if it means seven hours
of school followed by five more hours of
tuition see I go to an international
school and I’m fully aware that I’m very
lucky to be able to do so because at my
school were encouraged to ask questions
and wonder why and give opposing
viewpoints and I’m not saying the
systems are all perfect the idea of
competition is still very much there but
I’m not expected to memorize an entire
textbook just to repeat it all in the
exam and I don’t have to deal with being
struck with a ruler in front of my
entire class just because I forgot my
homework that day this is what my
friends at
many schools still have to deal with
every single day on top of all the
normal pressures there being the best
and sure kids learn to be obedient and
yeah they get good grades but what
people need to understand is that this
comes with a cost
this costs us our independence this
costs us our curiosity and this costs us
our freedom which is why my drink for
tomorrow is for parents to appreciate
their kids for the unique individuals
that they are instead of appreciating
them solely for the grace that they get
thank you
Holloway Ming lava tsunami so Salima
so know that transgender bandy about
LGBT bar road in a key my LGBT physical
only unrestrainedly Monroe trauma
tomorrow
whoo narrator eerie male Karenga LGBT to
Muhammad Ali when Emma LGBT education
denier do they are following on par with
my mother who I know negativities what
she gave Ari I’m a teenager ditching ,
people in in a La Nina LGBT was no Kuni
an IRA they made really my LGBT wrote a
light on it which we hope is any other
if you tell me on me tomorrow
so Turner arena the cynic Nantucket
invisible minority today getting is our
channel area truly will meet and really
he will never kind of got me to do to
move on winning original rule lemonade
and evolve know our cable so DeLorean
didn’t want my childhood same a Marcus a
LGBT fifty
whom Ivanka what I want component
Indonesian justice and I are a surgeon
or oh-ho let Mackenzie I went in my name
is Yessenia talent and only did I told
me on it safe easy mood cool away a
chicken and would you ask him or not on
the engine I think we remove the coolant
not have a cooler tomorrow young John
may my a mutiny the media the unique a
comma general attention are a
magnificent didn’t I do Muhsin only
Chameli I did it is our Emma no chopping
down boom a muppet on no channel me
Malcolm
sorry it’s a known ami you do that you
can Atari tomorrow LGBTQ and in an hour
every evening who person in America
Shannon and I are a video channel
revolutionary month-long Dona Tenorio
hibari my fellow geography better yet in
a diary
I’d imagine of your tanaga tomorrow your
job be done moving my beat down your
child only my mom for our tech new the
have example new dog on people I
initiated or tomorrow so now you’re a og
I do not have mu nu Donovan Tom we are
young will get Eve I you know am idea
mom is a base is very muddy of yoga I
got a cushy body
mnemonic Emma Japan I’ll go get another
which Onaga I think I’ve ever knocked
anybody
certain already
it’s already Linda can move where
director already but to whether Marie
Hamada quadratus am but she Busan
Incheon already bow which even your
prison is our money so I began to notice
on iro LGBT Saleh Lorena do Bobby LGBT
de mama unique among all me an LGBT Mei
she did not were your me Bob would look
trainee they call me mama I go out
happier LGBT she never company I don’t
know where else indication about him so
me my god no joke on kitchen inter do
that on people who TB Bora
so now Kobe admitted by takua
non-denominational person ro tomorrow
LGBT near to who take care that you can
sorry Busan are not a period who piloted
the coop throwing out that my ship all
of North America
I don’t do it in mind hi everyone my
name is Nicole my mother continued
pursuing her carrier as a lawyer after
she had my elder brother and although
she did her best in balancing the world
life routine she was not considered
kindly by her friends and family members
every time anything went wrong with my
brother say having a scratch on his
knees or even catching a fever she had
to take the convenient blame for being a
young walking mom
well first for 35 years a close friend
of mine recently give birth to a
beautiful baby girl and she left her
successful accounting career behind
willingly happily and without any second
thoughts
why she should be considered a trophy
moms by the standards a few decades ago
she was considered at someone who
stopped achieving professionally and
someone chosen a life of mundane
stay-at-home mom so yes in this simple
example we might not be defined by the
same norms that existed in our parents
days but still by the new ones that
equally intertwine with ones
freedom of choice we so proudly say that
our society today is more tolerant than
ever towards race religion gender or
sexual orientation
and yet our very own individuality our
opinions our actions no matter how
personal or harmless the earth has never
been more openly judged especially these
days with the easy access to social
media it’s just a matter of few clicks
to put someone under the microscope and
do the correct assassination should we
agree to pay those hidden prizes for the
advances of the time we live in it is
time we question ourselves whether we’re
actually being considerate towards
friends families or even strangers on
social media before putting them against
our own sets of beliefs and standards I
believe we all have seen that scene in
the movie where a policeman handcuffs a
person takes them to the court and say
anything you say can or will be used
against you well the irony today is that
you don’t need handcuffs or to stand in
front of a judge to be criticized
harshly to be precise and apologetically
to be criticized irrationally for
anything we say do you feel we tell our
children to follow their dreams and it’s
okay to be different but what kind of
world will we live in for them if we
don’t start to defend the right of
individuality and expressing oneself
against the watchful norms I was hot
enough already without the outside
expectations on the choices you make
with your partner career or who you hang
out with my dream for tomorrow is we
individuals should be able to make
different right decisions at different
times in our lives and the Liberty and
right to do so should be ours and ours
[Applause]
tomorrow I’ll tell me something
localization to deliver a see tomorrow
satellite channel – booyah – my area
that we went on a trip or even on a
sunny afternoon GG ugly today don’t say
Allah
totally somewhere amino – schiavelli
autogenic on your car sandwich honorable
yeah absolutely
who sit on your leader – who are they
typically never having metal occupying
the netted knee so sorry so sorry TT a
congruent Oh Peter Peter Kotori notice
our invidual tomorrow
Schiaparelli through local civil
debatable tomorrow chia pet
Maria de la lucha hello domination
visually potato me anyway
not a lot of Mariela people to whom
Sentaro
salvia sorry not the public are very
adamant about
Peabody a heroine who till ability a
large publicly Navajo bow tie alone for
the kitchen table a me Mario – Mario who
okay Natalia to solution so here’s how
you look at my book Lulu to buy a
skydiver be over tomorrow if Dean is
Nene found a solution
we are Ogawa I could say I wanna jump in
the area
canary canary channel to manage of
Vieira Baba tamale a couch or Vinny is
young a Lube a large chopper a Murray
clear tomorrow and I can look your re-of
a chihuahua the clearly the illusion of
mobile Pancho Villa
Maurice a tiara
kuba ka’s de comercio Carla the cleavage
to compare a Turia suit on anybody and
the team are depleting the launching of
it’s my another moment ago so girls are
you illusion happy community tonight a
Takei not do it nah let go pop your sins
are to call today another panache in
my name is Trenton and I am masada
I have made a lot of mistakes in bad
choices but there is only one thing that
I still regret three years ago my father
looked right at me and said son it is
wrong to be gay and you still have time
to change I knew and had accepted myself
as gay when I was 13 and it was not easy
when my father asked me to change of
course I wanted to change well at least
I tried like everybody here I never
wanted to get bullied in high school I
wanted to oh my boyfriend’s had like
other couples too I wanted to be the son
that my father wanted I do not regret
being gay but the fact that I said
nothing back and replied to my father
back then I just said there and not it I
think the problem here is the lack of
communication between parents and
children
heart-to-heart communications are the
the full concept of a person being gay
is so bizarre and so unreal to our
parents that they almost immediately
rejected they are like children who do
not want to eat broccoli when they’ve
never tried it before the road to
acceptance is trust and faith and this
time taking process comes with
conversations that matter perceptions
takes time to change and so is the case
with my father the problem shall persist
but in this case I know that I am being
true to myself and in the long run this
shall help
everybody has the right to love who they
want currently I am in the process of
proving my father that I am a capable
person
my parents have not accepted the fact
that I’m gay yet I love love love my mom
and dad so much and I am 100% sure that
they love me way more than I love them
that’s why I hid my heart I believe that
one day they will there will be a day
when all parents can be able to have
both eyes with their children once they
step out of their comfort zone trying to
understand their perspective the only
problem ever starts the moment you stop
communicating is a one go to
relationship advice to all of my friends
so I urge everyone to talk now is the
time that we start speaking loud and
clear to our families friends and
communities and speak about our
differences my dream for tomorrow is a
society in which everyone can proudly be
themselves and accept them as they are
my name is Joe dirtay I am an
engineering student by profession and a
student advocate I passion when I was a
kid I couldn’t wait to grow up and go to
university
mainly because high school was boring we
we couldn’t speak we had to sit all day
looking at those like an white textbook
where else in the university I imagine
there’ll be people singing dancing
debating sport cartoons and poems I am
also inspired by general unsung and the
Students Union leaders that stood up
against the British for independence so
in 2012 after graduating from high
school I joined Yangon Technological
University previously known as RIT just
to find out that it’s also empty
it’s like going to high school all over
again and it didn’t it didn’t feel right
so we held the first elections to
reestablish the Student Union the
literature talks the sports festivals
and everything that we could imagine we
see students unions are highly
influential in yanmar political movement
RIT in nineteen nineteen eighty eight
would be a brilliant example other thing
and we really cherish that that that
history that legacy at the same time we
believe that political advocacy can be
done in many different ways in our case
we dedicated to empower our students by
connecting them with the best global
practices we are a bunch of engineering
students but let’s talk about
entrepreneurship Center T and climate
change let’s do a Model UN or a Moodle
Austrian meeting let’s organize an
innovation competition to find creative
solution to our society which we just
did on how to build a small city of the
in this narrow the fourth Industrial
Revolution does not limit what a
Students Union can or cannot do or they
are far greater challenges nationally
and globally my dream for tomorrow is to
revitalize the campus life of Myanmar
[Applause] [Music]
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