[Applause]
may I ask you a question how many of you
how many of you do remember those guys
over here sine cosine and tangent yeah
about 50 percent lucky that your math
teacher hasn’t here with us but to be
honest me neither
it was only a few weeks ago when I went
to school and saw some pupils studying
for their exams just memorizing sine
cosine and tangent and this made me
think about something it made me think
about what I have learned in school and
I’m not talking about algebra or
short-story analysis I mean which of
your opinions which of your thinking’s
and maybe your worldviews do have their
origin back in your school days you know
for my part I do not use Pythagoras
quite often in my daily routine but at
the same time their sovereign several
social challenges regarding racism
you know I’m not saying that your
education system is bad what I’m saying
is maybe we could find ways to give all
the knowledge more meaning and then
adding to meaning feeling feeling and
empathy the most basic things that makes
us human so what if what if we could
teach values that prevent us from racism
from extremism and from sexism
what would education look like or to be
more precise what would society look
like my name is cha – I’m 23 years old
and together with some friends I founded
the organization tell Iran Atlanta for
its
actually hard to translate that means
something like in broaden your horizon
in German you say played Without Borders
it all started in 2014 when I’ve
produced my film features Elance which
came into cinemas in 2015
right when the so called refugee crisis
happens the film produced without any
money no money for the cameras no money
for those wants behind and in front of
those cameras and actually when we’ve
started to produce this film there have
been several producers and broadcasters
telling us that it’s not gonna work that
there’s no chance to produce a cinema
feature without any money but to be
honest it isn’t any good idea start with
one guy telling you that it’s not gonna
work probably I was overwhelmed by how
many people showed interest in this
movie and offered their support even
though we had not shot a single minute
of material yet and actually this movie
was not only movie about refugees it was
a movie from the perspective and through
the eyes of those ones and our goal was
not to produce a political movie not to
manipulate people in their political
opinion our only goal was to make people
think to make people reflect before they
go and shout so we’ve started this
project had thousands of thousands of
visitors but among all these visitors
they have not been a single racist so a
problem was when this kind of audience
doesn’t come to our cinema screenings
how about we’ll bring the cinema
screenings this movie and this message
right to the audience but there’s a
crucial point I mean where the hell is
this audience located it can be the
judge from the next court can be the
teacher the baker the taxi driver so
what do all these people have in common
and there’s exactly one point they all
went to school some of them probably not
very successfully but let’s say they
have been there so we founded this
organization when two schools had film
screenings workshops discussions with
all those pupils and what happened was
actually more than any of us had ever
expected 1314 years old pupils who had
never had any contact with refugees or
migration in general they started
initiating projects in their own schools
projects against racism against
discrimination basketball clubs refugees
cooking sessions with oriental food what
all those pupils started was not only
project it is an intercultural
friendship which is actually louder and
you know pessimism always creates more
pessimism violence always creates more
violence that’s why all these populist
seem to become more and more successful
these days because all they do is
spreading fear not solving any of our
problems just making people afraid so
how about just an offer
how about spreading optimism to be more
precise how about making people clear
that there’s still a chance to build a
better world because one thing’s for
sure
optimism always creates more optimism so
long story short please go and spread
optimism spread it is loud and strong as
you can because building a better world
starts only with you thank you for your
attention you
may I ask you a question how many of you
how many of you do remember those guys
over here sine cosine and tangent yeah
about 50 percent lucky that your math
teacher hasn’t here with us but to be
honest me neither
it was only a few weeks ago when I went
to school and saw some pupils studying
for their exams just memorizing sine
cosine and tangent and this made me
think about something it made me think
about what I have learned in school and
I’m not talking about algebra or
short-story analysis I mean which of
your opinions which of your thinking’s
and maybe your worldviews do have their
origin back in your school days you know
for my part I do not use Pythagoras
quite often in my daily routine but at
the same time their sovereign several
social challenges regarding racism
you know I’m not saying that your
education system is bad what I’m saying
is maybe we could find ways to give all
the knowledge more meaning and then
adding to meaning feeling feeling and
empathy the most basic things that makes
us human so what if what if we could
teach values that prevent us from racism
from extremism and from sexism
what would education look like or to be
more precise what would society look
like my name is cha – I’m 23 years old
and together with some friends I founded
the organization tell Iran Atlanta for
its
actually hard to translate that means
something like in broaden your horizon
in German you say played Without Borders
it all started in 2014 when I’ve
produced my film features Elance which
came into cinemas in 2015
right when the so called refugee crisis
happens the film produced without any
money no money for the cameras no money
for those wants behind and in front of
those cameras and actually when we’ve
started to produce this film there have
been several producers and broadcasters
telling us that it’s not gonna work that
there’s no chance to produce a cinema
feature without any money but to be
honest it isn’t any good idea start with
one guy telling you that it’s not gonna
work probably I was overwhelmed by how
many people showed interest in this
movie and offered their support even
though we had not shot a single minute
of material yet and actually this movie
was not only movie about refugees it was
a movie from the perspective and through
the eyes of those ones and our goal was
not to produce a political movie not to
manipulate people in their political
opinion our only goal was to make people
think to make people reflect before they
go and shout so we’ve started this
project had thousands of thousands of
visitors but among all these visitors
they have not been a single racist so a
problem was when this kind of audience
doesn’t come to our cinema screenings
how about we’ll bring the cinema
screenings this movie and this message
right to the audience but there’s a
crucial point I mean where the hell is
this audience located it can be the
judge from the next court can be the
teacher the baker the taxi driver so
what do all these people have in common
and there’s exactly one point they all
went to school some of them probably not
very successfully but let’s say they
have been there so we founded this
organization when two schools had film
screenings workshops discussions with
all those pupils and what happened was
actually more than any of us had ever
expected 1314 years old pupils who had
never had any contact with refugees or
migration in general they started
initiating projects in their own schools
projects against racism against
discrimination basketball clubs refugees
cooking sessions with oriental food what
all those pupils started was not only
project it is an intercultural
friendship which is actually louder and
you know pessimism always creates more
pessimism violence always creates more
violence that’s why all these populist
seem to become more and more successful
these days because all they do is
spreading fear not solving any of our
problems just making people afraid so
how about just an offer
how about spreading optimism to be more
precise how about making people clear
that there’s still a chance to build a
better world because one thing’s for
sure
optimism always creates more optimism so
long story short please go and spread
optimism spread it is loud and strong as
you can because building a better world
starts only with you thank you for your
attention you
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