oh thank you what a wonderful crowd
today here before we start let us give a
bottom cost of all the organizers all
the volunteers who put it panels
together and brought all of you here
today can we where should Portuguese
defining personal identity this is me
when I was too tired to go Chinese
family this is the place where I was
born and raised in West it’s located in
Siberia near the Lake Baikal in Russia
Michael is the deepest freshwater lake
in the world it is as deep as my Chinese
roots we’d go there on summer vacations
with our family where my dad would
fished and my mom would teach me and my
sister swimming just like every other
family I never considered myself
different from others because of the
Chinese nation in my DNA my dad was born
in Tashkent Uzbekistan my mom from
Harbin China I’m the third generation of
Chinese experts in Russia you would
probably expect me to tell you a story
on how hard it was to find my identity
because everyone else was looking at me
differently however that would not be my
story today I was lucky enough to have
completely different experience of
Chinese experts living in a foreign
country Russia has more than 200 nations
sigiriya belongs originally – booyah – a
good nation and they look very Asian
with darker hair yellow skin and brown
eyes we have many Koreans in Russia in
the third or fourth generation who
worked harder to save you
during the first world war what makes us
different there are millions of us and
what makes us different is that we were
born and raised in a different countries
than our parents grandparents and
great-grandparents however most of the
foreign-born children cannot speak
they’re with original languages anymore
especially if we’re talking about one of
the most difficult languages in the
world
and this is what makes our family
different we started to learn Chinese in
a group of five people with other
children with similar backgrounds after
ten years only two people made it till
the end
me and my sister and the result was a
worthy I’m doing my masters at Tsinghua
University my sister was just accepted
several days ago to peckin University
where she will pursue her master’s
before coming to China I didn’t know any
Chinese of my age in our primary school
teachers would tell us if we don’t do
our work on time those centers to China
so all of us the Chinese kids do not
please do not rest just study day at
night
surprisingly when I came to Beijing and
I got to know more Chinese people away I
realized of course the Chinese students
also play clefairy games hang out with
friends and procrastinate sometimes it’s
every other normal student and you know
what I was when I just started to think
about my identity or identities that was
in China it was important for me to come
to a place where my ancestor lived and
to dive deep into
history I started to know more about
Chinese more Chinese and Russians and I
will pre completed receive they’ll
question are you Chinese or more Russia
so I started to think about it or one of
my Russian friends told me that I have
I’m the living proof of the existence of
Russian song and other Chinese professor
from Mecca University told me that I
have more Chinese tradition to myself
especially taking the family values on
the first place and I started to stick
for the uncertain others I would always
get different angles during my bachelor
degree i co-founded with my attracts
russian student association in our
university which essentially who helped
it to russia Student Association of ng
you can see on this picture three people
all the presence of Russian Student
Association Chinese Georgian and grilled
and we’ll keep 19 question and Chinese
students I’d never stop us to myself a
question Who am I
because at the end of the day but we’re
facing ourselves too long this is the
only question that matters so while
leading worship Student Association I
noticed that there are many countries
communities and all of them are all
training separately from one another
even their worship speaking once and it
felt like everyone was divided by
geographical boundaries while all being
in a single city in Beijing so me and my
friends started to think about a
platform where we can unite all the
russian-speaking people together to work
together and this is where Shanghai
Cooperation Organization
came into my mind so shy corporation
organization back to 2016 had only six
countries like many member states
countries they were China Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan Russia Kazakhstan and
Uzbekistan and we proposed the idea at
the SCO hackers got support from
secretary-general a few months later SCO
country’s youth league came into life in
2017 presidents of these six countries
decided to accept 88 Pakistan to join
our accept as core members and then we
started to have more people from India
Pakistan after a year we open our doors
for all 18 countries Jean equal duration
organization as the as you know is the
largest trust regional organization in
the world has 18 countries for the
purpose and world’s population where
every fifth represents you so the idea
of creating this nonprofit organization
was to give people from different
countries and platform to work and grow
together but you know what was the most
challenging part for me it was not about
any having eight countries instead of
six or eight in instead of eight it was
the moment when I realized that with
more non-russian that not Chinese
speaking people coming in I had to speak
English and it was challenging because
Russian and Chinese are my native
languages while English is my foreign
language and I knew that I had to be
perfect as the leader of the community
because everyone will look at me and
this is what words hope a society event
that we cannot show our weaknesses
otherwise people might use might use it
again
against us so it was not really how it
turned out in the reality within a year
we were able to create a team of people
who embraced it friends who are willing
to make social impact to make people
around us to live a little better life
than without us we do not put labels of
each other we it doesn’t matter in our
community where you come from whether
you’re poor or rich worried whether you
just started your study already have a
successful running startup most of us
are bilingual multilingual and
multicultural and we create lasting
relationships by working together
towards the same goal and the goal is to
build a platform a strong network of
young vibrant leaders if the entire
region and beyond and this was the place
where I found myself and where I found
my identity the place where it felt
absolutely nature to be Russia and to be
Chinese and took the best from bone
cultures the openness of Russia spirit
spirit and the belief in common shared
future from Chinese where the core is
trust and respect to one another now
since I accepted both of my identities I
am not afraid to face myself anymore and
this is where I begin my journey thank
you [Music]
today here before we start let us give a
bottom cost of all the organizers all
the volunteers who put it panels
together and brought all of you here
today can we where should Portuguese
defining personal identity this is me
when I was too tired to go Chinese
family this is the place where I was
born and raised in West it’s located in
Siberia near the Lake Baikal in Russia
Michael is the deepest freshwater lake
in the world it is as deep as my Chinese
roots we’d go there on summer vacations
with our family where my dad would
fished and my mom would teach me and my
sister swimming just like every other
family I never considered myself
different from others because of the
Chinese nation in my DNA my dad was born
in Tashkent Uzbekistan my mom from
Harbin China I’m the third generation of
Chinese experts in Russia you would
probably expect me to tell you a story
on how hard it was to find my identity
because everyone else was looking at me
differently however that would not be my
story today I was lucky enough to have
completely different experience of
Chinese experts living in a foreign
country Russia has more than 200 nations
sigiriya belongs originally – booyah – a
good nation and they look very Asian
with darker hair yellow skin and brown
eyes we have many Koreans in Russia in
the third or fourth generation who
worked harder to save you
during the first world war what makes us
different there are millions of us and
what makes us different is that we were
born and raised in a different countries
than our parents grandparents and
great-grandparents however most of the
foreign-born children cannot speak
they’re with original languages anymore
especially if we’re talking about one of
the most difficult languages in the
world
and this is what makes our family
different we started to learn Chinese in
a group of five people with other
children with similar backgrounds after
ten years only two people made it till
the end
me and my sister and the result was a
worthy I’m doing my masters at Tsinghua
University my sister was just accepted
several days ago to peckin University
where she will pursue her master’s
before coming to China I didn’t know any
Chinese of my age in our primary school
teachers would tell us if we don’t do
our work on time those centers to China
so all of us the Chinese kids do not
please do not rest just study day at
night
surprisingly when I came to Beijing and
I got to know more Chinese people away I
realized of course the Chinese students
also play clefairy games hang out with
friends and procrastinate sometimes it’s
every other normal student and you know
what I was when I just started to think
about my identity or identities that was
in China it was important for me to come
to a place where my ancestor lived and
to dive deep into
history I started to know more about
Chinese more Chinese and Russians and I
will pre completed receive they’ll
question are you Chinese or more Russia
so I started to think about it or one of
my Russian friends told me that I have
I’m the living proof of the existence of
Russian song and other Chinese professor
from Mecca University told me that I
have more Chinese tradition to myself
especially taking the family values on
the first place and I started to stick
for the uncertain others I would always
get different angles during my bachelor
degree i co-founded with my attracts
russian student association in our
university which essentially who helped
it to russia Student Association of ng
you can see on this picture three people
all the presence of Russian Student
Association Chinese Georgian and grilled
and we’ll keep 19 question and Chinese
students I’d never stop us to myself a
question Who am I
because at the end of the day but we’re
facing ourselves too long this is the
only question that matters so while
leading worship Student Association I
noticed that there are many countries
communities and all of them are all
training separately from one another
even their worship speaking once and it
felt like everyone was divided by
geographical boundaries while all being
in a single city in Beijing so me and my
friends started to think about a
platform where we can unite all the
russian-speaking people together to work
together and this is where Shanghai
Cooperation Organization
came into my mind so shy corporation
organization back to 2016 had only six
countries like many member states
countries they were China Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan Russia Kazakhstan and
Uzbekistan and we proposed the idea at
the SCO hackers got support from
secretary-general a few months later SCO
country’s youth league came into life in
2017 presidents of these six countries
decided to accept 88 Pakistan to join
our accept as core members and then we
started to have more people from India
Pakistan after a year we open our doors
for all 18 countries Jean equal duration
organization as the as you know is the
largest trust regional organization in
the world has 18 countries for the
purpose and world’s population where
every fifth represents you so the idea
of creating this nonprofit organization
was to give people from different
countries and platform to work and grow
together but you know what was the most
challenging part for me it was not about
any having eight countries instead of
six or eight in instead of eight it was
the moment when I realized that with
more non-russian that not Chinese
speaking people coming in I had to speak
English and it was challenging because
Russian and Chinese are my native
languages while English is my foreign
language and I knew that I had to be
perfect as the leader of the community
because everyone will look at me and
this is what words hope a society event
that we cannot show our weaknesses
otherwise people might use might use it
again
against us so it was not really how it
turned out in the reality within a year
we were able to create a team of people
who embraced it friends who are willing
to make social impact to make people
around us to live a little better life
than without us we do not put labels of
each other we it doesn’t matter in our
community where you come from whether
you’re poor or rich worried whether you
just started your study already have a
successful running startup most of us
are bilingual multilingual and
multicultural and we create lasting
relationships by working together
towards the same goal and the goal is to
build a platform a strong network of
young vibrant leaders if the entire
region and beyond and this was the place
where I found myself and where I found
my identity the place where it felt
absolutely nature to be Russia and to be
Chinese and took the best from bone
cultures the openness of Russia spirit
spirit and the belief in common shared
future from Chinese where the core is
trust and respect to one another now
since I accepted both of my identities I
am not afraid to face myself anymore and
this is where I begin my journey thank
you [Music]
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