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The Secret | Ana Batista | TEDxMCSchool


I was in the car with my mother and my
sister changing the radio station for
some music to listen to
Oh changing from station to station my
mother stopped on the news I quickly
sold out the window but I turned back
when I heard the presenter talking about
how a man threatened to kill his partner
you should reported the abuse conducted
towards her saying that I was in shock
is not a statement in the dominican
republic this is a certain cycle women
are abused later on threatened and not
to say anything they reported and then
they are killed the news gets hold of it
and we send her thoughts and prayers
he happens again and again with each new
victim the Dominican Society has
essentially gotten used to it because
nothing is being done to improve the
situation domestic violence can be
defined as the certain intimidation
battery physical or sexual assault or
any abusive behavior that creates a
sense of power and control in a
relationship it is called domestics it
happens at home a private place where
anything that says there stays there as
I was giving this talk as a format my
mother decided to tell me about an
important part of her childhood when she
was a child my grandma always told her
and her siblings to take their plates
and dishes to the kitchen after they
finished they all did as she said but
one day my grandpa appeared in the hall
and said l know his mercy tapara star J
van de los platos she also told me about
her uncle may he rest in peace and
cousin as a child the cousin was a
really handsome boy and he once told him
Elvis Aaron Gallo de que Jacob primera
Segundo de pree Mario Cavett and L
commodious Noah’s the cousin would have
many girlfriends and the action would
have been celebrating my mother’s
brother couldn’t take the tablecloth and
dish to the kitchen because he wasn’t a
girl these two expectations come down to
a stop
topic and cause of domestic violence in
Spanish there is a word that really
relates to this topic and it is called
machismo
it means the attitude or way of thinking
that the man is naturally superior to
the woman as I researched for this topic
I learned about this demonic contain and
it really goes with the notion of
machismo
and it goes la mujer is el piojo del
hombre in English it means the woman are
lies on the head of a man it is
comparing both sexes insisting that men
are more important and that lies on
annoyance to the map that right there is
an example of machismo telling us women
that we are unimportant but that can
actually change there is a way to stop
machismo and just turn it into a simple
word of the past phrases like 20-some
bardugo
que la da de hombre mad or mantra and
the most Dominican of them all which is
a modernist is gay genus kami gallo and
the swelter have tainted our culture by
creating men who think that communities
actions makes them powerful by having a
person in the palm of their hand believe
it or not manipulation takes a
fundamental part in this topic the men
who start to control everything the soul
of the woman will start to shut down
little by little and she will start
getting used to the aggression in this
context the man will control everything
from the economical foundation to the
emotional basis and lastly who she is I
am a thankful female I give thanks
because domestic violence is never
present in my life but ever since I
learned about the woman who was killed
in cold and bloody manner for doing what
was right and the certain laws are an
applied living each case to turn up into
a story
that adapts to a chart of victims it is
more than enough
spread the word think about it
write letters your representatives and
even vote for new changes to be made if
you suspect that a friend is going on
with this type of secret never leave her
alone and go ask help
together because this is one of the
things women are good at men can help
too they can create or be part of
organizations they can reach out to a
friend with this type of secret they can
be positive role model to men and
children and they can speak out against
domestic violence they can also reach
out a friend get help together and never
leave her alone
ever because this secret don’t ever keep
it to yourself because for once it is
worth it to be a tattle-tale thank you
very much [Applause]
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