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Una mirada vulnerable a la diferencia | Laura C. Vela | TEDxYouth@Madrid


he had never felt foreigners
I miss about the people that we
surrounds
it has always happened to me and only
I found the understanding that
in art so since I was little I had
Of course I wanted to dedicate myself to the creation
artistic provides everything but I did not find
my natural language until I started
take pictures
at first I took pictures of my friends my
family then my jobs were trying
of the closest thing but with time what
close falls short and you want to go more
there and thus discovered the Asian culture
his movies his books his photographs
constantly amaze me and discover
new things made me happy
one day taking pictures of a group of
known music will be used
is a neighborhood of madrid known as the
chinatown madrileño
unlike the central areas of
madrid that are more and more like
rest of European cities usera me
he called a lot of attention
let’s say that usera is a kind of
pastiche between different cultures
activities and constructions
When I arrived at my house I started
investigate and to my surprise I found
a facebook group that was called
second generation Chinese in Spain
gaudy huawei the administrator of
this group decided to use this word
to be defined because he did not feel
Spanish or Chinese but at the same time both
things and part of the origin of this
conflict is given because for the great
Most white Spanish gentlemen
will never be entirely Spanish by the
mere fact of having eyes ripped
I got the Chinese fever and it convinces him
see all my friends from the project
it was well as known irruption siro is
a Chinese artist with whom my friend
Jose coincided in a dance workshop in
the queen sofia
it turned out that ciro was also
working on the Chinese community
Spain but from the performance and the
dance
we are connected and we start
work together
meanwhile we were sharing
interests and we gave ourselves to each other
mind that I like the same music
for example chavela vargas
the films of wong kar wai walk the
philosophy of nature and eating a lot
since it is very important to share
deficiency eat a lot with time I
I realized that those are the lords
they should and can talk about that
themselves and so want and my interest
real were the cultural differences
that there was between my friend and me the
curiosity that we had each for the
world from the other base to focus only
in ciro my fascination for her did not leave
to grow and until then been
photographing your growth that has gone
hand in hand with mine
ciro was born in junin have known in
China as the province in which he was born
more situm and in the west as the place
in which avatar was filmed
Although it shares a country of origin with
his compatriots 70% of the people
Chinese who live in Spain and in
europe in general come from a place
a province called fichan is
province has a dialect of its own that
she does not talk therefore not them
understands
despite this for the vast majority of
Europeans this community represents a
whole country although it feels so strange
we will usually go a lot and eat for the
such varied meals that they have so
rich and the godmothers that we always
They put the tangerines for dessert
they have always been very present among
us and have become
a kind of game
to remind me to ciro and asylum will
they remember the scents of their old
house cradle
also in China the tangerines
They symbolize good luck and wealth
that’s why I like to always carry
tangerines on top but I want to think that
eventually we will each become
in owners of our own luck
owners of our own luck in this
journey through the different thing has come
to know myself and what has
surprised more is that it has come to
feel more recognized than ever but
where this recognition passes
for the discovery of some roots of
an idiosyncrasy for me not for me
this recognition has to see more
more than words have to do
with the connections more than with the
places has to do with homes
more than with in languages ​​it has to do
with the use we make of the language
for example being named and listened to and
especially more than defining itself has
to do with open often tells us
meeting
his passion but today I think that the
key is not entirely there although it is
true that we got to go groping
discovering what we like
I think we became also
worrying about others for the
things and actively participating in the
society feeling that we have to
we have a place a couple of years ago with
Chinese New Year motive
they invited me to participate by answering
the pictures I had made up
then the Chinese New Year that had
celebrated in Spain but from
a few years ago it is also celebrated in
will use together with the Chinese community as
organizer of the event and for the
chance
my friend Carlos Garcia who is also
photographer wrote a text that I
it seems very successful in him he said that the
the topics are common places
promoted by the media
mass communication that we
they provide simple answers to
much more complex problems often
the role of these topics is to dispel the
fear of change and something new
at other times
its role is to promote it or even get
to create it
these topics take advantage of the
ignorance of society to stay
to live among us and legitimize the
power to make biased decisions
besides this Carlos also said that
my photos there is no imposition but
simply life and that as such
they talk about those epics of always
those in beautiful 3 cultural that
we could call it human
in my journey through the image
let’s say that the image has allowed me to
me to get in touch with a culture
far away learn and go uncovering topics
but I do not think there’s much to walk around
to realize that any of
we have been victim once
of the topics be it for whatever and for
so I think that we each have
that catch that vulnerability that we have
that suffering and use it from love
to understand others
because we are all different but
same the same time who you are
what group does it belong to?
where do you come from it seems to be questions
today inevitable but may
just be patches classifications
simplifiers to hide a truth
greater and is that we are all one and as
so we should all be treated of the
same way I think I hope the
day on which the classifications leave
if necessary to
claim to define us there a
precious analogy in the tao book of
the ost and it says that living beings
when we are born we are born plan two sabers and
flexible and dying
We are hard rigid and flexible
so whoever is soft and adaptable is a
disciple of life and whoever is hard and
rigid is a disciple of death
let us be disciples of life many
Thank you
me
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