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Understanding Discrimination | Alexander Gallegos | TEDxYouth@GrandJunction


good morning my name is Alexander
Gallegos but most people know me as
chilly today I’ll I’ll be talking about
discrimination I’ve ever felt like you
don’t fit in have you ever felt
discriminated against discrimination is
the unfair treatment of different
categories of people especially on the
grounds of race age or gender now there
are many different types of
discrimination but I’ll be talking about
three race discrimination gender
discrimination in age discrimination
race discrimination also known as racism
is a big thing today and affected my
family from the 18 – 1900s because
they’re a Native American so my
great-great grandfather owned a lot of
land in New Mexico and when New Mexico
became state he lost all that land
because he was Native American so his
son my great-grandfather had sir all
over from scratch here in Colorado now
race this green nation didn’t hasn’t
just affected my family it has affected
many other families because past family
mattered members weren’t allowed on the
bus or because of slavery another form
of discrimination is gender
discrimination my great-great aunt
wouldn’t be in the war during World War
two but they wouldn’t let her because
she was a woman but she did become a
racketeer like Rosie through her
material and it didn’t just affect
people then too it affected people in
the 60s and 70s to be there were men
were allowed to hit women
they even had ads just like this one
luckily now though women have started
standing up for their rights I can’t
wait for the day when my mom and my
sister can you do the same job as a man
get paid the same amount and get the
same in my respect
mmm now something I’m passionate about
age discrimination kids are treated as
if they don’t have an opinion or their
opinion isn’t even valid when even when
it comes to their own benefit wouldn’t
really it might really help and it is
from a different point of view view but
still girl don’t think oh they’re not as
smart as us they wouldn’t get it and
they don’t give us a chance but then you
have to think we are the future we are
the ones that are going to make the
inventions and no one thought possible
he speeds grown-ups they did make the
invention it’s know in doc hospital they
were the future they were in the light
but now it’s our turn it’s all eternity
and now I today I told you three
different types of discrimination and
that interviewed you feed people and ask
them what they thought the source of
discrimination was some things they said
were greed wanting to steal power and a
bad influence growing up I agree with
all of these he’s all make sense it was
Gandhi there once said no to leaves I
like and yet there’s no antagonism
between them or between the branches are
most a girl you think about that
we’re like the leaves every single one
of us is different the only difference
between us and leaves is that we
discriminate against each other we don’t
accept each other’s differences we need
to learn how to be more like the leaves
we need to learn to accept each other’s
differences because no matter how much
power you have no matter young or old no
matter color skin no matter gender we are all equal
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