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Para, entiende y conecta. | Cynthia Jiménez de la Portilla | TEDxCiudaddePuebla


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label stereotype discrimination
the idea is to break walls but you know how
we build those walls
better yet how we eliminate the divisions
which are the expression of these walls of
what you are and what I am
to where your vision is true and mine
it is adequate
you’re going to tell me it’s the culture you’re going
to say that are the perceptions you do not go
to say it’s education
and that is a set of everything
happens when a joke
is the reflection of the construction of
walls that divide us today
like a meme it ‘s really fun but you know
the extent that this may have
you know what’s behind a joke that
it seems harmless
today I come to ask you
I, like you, laughed at the memes.
they seemed like the most inoffensive jokes I
as you understood the world in categories and
many times even in stereotypes and
immediate compartments to be able
process all the information that
we receive every day
put in categories and do it so fast
as exposed you are to the phenomena in
the world but it was after a few months
of being in the Middle East that I gave
account the damage it can do and
I said to myself
no more
from line I’m always exposed to
a lot of information and mom taught me that
the world comes without filters and that everything is
relative to what one means by
truth began to generate categories this
I know it is good and then there is what
the rest
I remember I was about 10 or 11 years old
when he took me to see my first
documentary about the bosnia war in
the former Yugoslavia
when they told him he could not enter
because it was too strong for my age his
answer was and the children who live it
it’s not strong for them I grew up then
between news placing labels of
unjust wars of conflicts
constants and will ask me why and the
response was always the same because no
they understand
it was then that I started with this madness
to understand convinced that if you
could cultures and their diversity
soon they became my fascination
after a few years I was already
in Yemen half a tooth performing a
research project I arrived after
of having studied the region of having
read books articles magazines treated
have you seen texts not so
I firmly wanted to have no
impediment to connect and understand the
culture of the region and could not be
more wrong
I with a lot of academics that there
they were ready to allow a
quick judgment to see how much of what
I thought I understood what was typical
went into what I once heard in
a complexion the image that gives you one
story if it’s exactly what you’re
thinking when I entered the
stereotype
It was until I met Fatima a woman
from Sanaa the capital
and I arrived of course with a label
typical that is used for all
women of the region hear if they cover
because they are forced is sad
Retrograde is the reflection of a society
misogynist and macho even I dared
to say poor if you
she looked at me surprised was not the
the first time I heard something like that
surely you do not either and he told me
let me tell you how it is that I chose
my husband
I met bashir he told me from the
school
I knew who I was I knew what
I thought I loved your point of view
when I knew that his mom would go to the
next party I said I have to be
there you have to know that the parties in
Yemen are divided between men and women
as many things of society in
yemen but that’s not the subject of this
talk at the party told me look
see me as beautiful as possible so that
your mom will notice me and did it connect
super good we take fantastically
with her and her sisters this is very
important because women are the
who choose the wife of their children
males
at the end of the party he told me
with all the features that my
son looks to get married soon and
they were committed the hard commitment
from six months to a year inclusive
during this time
now he knows me he told me never
baby but know what’s important when I know
what I think what makes me laugh what
they are my dreams
the last day of the wedding was ready
to see me imagine you are going to
see for the first time in his life the
woman they love so much
Fatima affirmed me with confidence
my marriage will last as long as life
because he is in love with who I am and not
how he sees me
and this is one of the reasons why
which I choose to use the mechano
to date they are still together I
I also met my husband to a
American student
and I remember when we got married I
they said you are aware that you
marriage will last you what lasts you
youth
before Fatima I would have taken this
wrong
but then I understood not
I necessarily share his vision but
I will not issue a judgment of this
right or wrong I just understood
that in order to connect with these
people you have to understand it from your
perspective from its center is here
where can we connect where we can
build a link but how to do it
if the world is going so fast
and how can we connect
then I knew it, we do not do it and it’s like that
how do we develop our divisions
our immediate categories is like this
how we build the walls that today we
divide
but I can not be the only one who has
seen this and I remembered then that the
best way to frame all this
debate that has been analyzed so much is
talk about culture as the
conceptualize how we look at a
society and we identify the
characteristics that define the
practices that unite
but why is it so important
culture many academics have dedicated
much of his life to study it
Doctor Jose this time did this same
question and developed a whole theory in
around her raising a model of
circles where in the center I put the
national values and around
cultural practices and although this
model is designed to understand the
culture in itself is extraordinary
to understand how it is that we
we develop our categories if
We extend to put in the circle
fundamental values human values
present in all the societies to
through the entire timeline
historical values ​​such as life the
self-determination the freedom of
choice access to a sustainable level
of life
but understand that the expression of these
values is going to filter and conceptualize
around circles that come
extended within these values ​​by
example practices and customs
religion
historical context and geographic status
economic education civil culture
global interaction how many and how much
broad are these circles depends on
each of the people does not
necessarily of the generality of a
culture but from the experience of each
individual
let’s take for example the value let’s say
the freedom of choice
and it will filter in such a way that
what will be different between the
Fatima and I will be the expression of
this value let’s say what we choose
wear
this led me to recognize what has been
the rector of my life
-We discriminate what is not
we know we do not discriminate what
that we do not understand
and they are going to tell me this study is already
spoke many times this and what
we knew
we are open informed we are going
to texts we do not discriminate but
if we do it as
Dr. Kate to one of the directors
of the ‘play’ tells us that all the
people discriminate by a set
complex of factors includes history
sociocultural practices
economic forces trends
social the influence of beliefs
of your community and your family
practically our circles and
extended here is where the
discrimination social tensions
when these circles collide generating
a prejudiced interaction that is to say I
I’m fine you wrong let me explain how
do not
ok let’s delete it
neither because that is how our
brain this is how we
we develop the categories that we
help to understand this world without filters
then there is a question that must be asked
each category is discrimination not
neither but there is a thin line very
thin immediacy
when your categories become
immediate
they turn into labels
and then in stereotypes
and easily in discrimination
there is a limit on everything including
memes
how dangerous this is when it comes back
natural
label stereotype discrimination
and what happens if the people who are
they handle so they were teachers
they were policemen
or they were doctors
and they went to companies
or were at the head of a country
what happens when the danger
it’s the naturalness
sure green something
it becomes tangible
and that’s why today I come to ask you
we live in a fast world yes but as
I always tell my students it’s worth
saying that I do not know before issuing a
judgment before imposing your truth before
to talk about what we know but not
we understand because today there is no need
understand everything because effectively
we live in a world of immediacy but
Today we also live in a world
that you have the power to choose in what
moment you tell
many thanks
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