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Xenofilia | Malena Yohai | TEDxMarDelPlata


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let’s start with an exercise
perception
yes because according to how we see the world and
how we act in general
what color is my white handkerchief or
black white white white keith because
nobody said cream other color champagne
only the two options this is the
they took because they were imposed
beyond the reality that is rarely
well because not everything is generally white
or black where life teach us the
options but in general they are in
function to normal
normality only represents the
majority and we’re going to use this to judge
the thoughts the ideas or the
people around us and we are going to divide
all in these two criteria normal and
abnormal but we also said that is the
This is not true because it presents us
a huge range that we know as
diversity for me diversity sounds
fun fun and exciting
with 3 a lot of options
nothing better than that everyone will choose
these options and you are going to put together your own
taste ideas toolkit
of affinities plus all the things that do not
we choose to be fat black whites
skinny between a religion between a
school of thought and it’s great
because they will never see two games
same
the problem is not this the problem is
that we do not educate to know with Juan
different we can be neither to respect
this also happens that facing the
diversity many times we are in a
ignorance situation this
situation of how good because that’s
different than maybe unlike the
what are we talking about and
It’s great because it presents us with a
challenge an emotion but the counterpart
of ignorance is the fear of seeing
this is natural is perfect because
in front of something unknown that can be
a threat
you have to be careful that getting away is
biological is how we evolve as
species in front of something we do not know if
it can harm you physically we move away
but what happens when a
different person an exotic person
strange for a reason that thinks
different that feels different kind of
physically hurting you can hurt you
not really
then why do we choose to react with
fear many times to this situation of
ignorance
we are afraid of that person or
We are afraid that he will take us away from this
space of normality this space
comfortable this comfort zone of which
nobody laughs or mocks
I would like to speak some words
that is used a lot in the educational field
to try to counteract these
fears these rejections
these words are inclusion tolerance
integration
the problem for me is that they are only
words when at least they should be
values of life that passes either the
we are thinking in reality we are going to
go on to define them and start with
tolerance tolerance biologically and
the agency’s ability to accept and
resist the contribution of certain
substances that he tolerated up to here
integration inclusion are also not so
and we think them well both have
seized from something loose include it the
total
let’s think of a person who for some
reason can not be included and the truth
is that it’s too late for someone
needs to be tolerated included integrated
he suffered intolerances this afternoon
then I propose another little word
acceptance
the situation comes from long before never
Let’s make this situation we know that
person in this way but eye is a
word and all have limits
there are things that should not be accepted
not all opinions should be respected
let’s say good in my opinion
respects the views opinions there are
kill them all
unfortunately not that you can not
accept because if your ideology its form
to think or to perceive others
incites violence does not have to
be accepted and that sounds very
terrible but now on facebook
in any controversial discussion by
several people opining like that is the
reality
we saw a lot with this then
we are talking about words not of the
vocabulary
what I propose today is to do the most
diverse
let’s think about the words we use
let’s think and repense, let’s play and we’ll do
in all areas especially
educational with the right words and
without taboos and fears you can say everything
everything that comes out because what does
the tabo been great prejudice and the
prejudice
violence we also think the
diversity as a value of life because
if we are not going to need life we
ensures something to everyone and everyone
like it promises us pain yes or yes no
you can escape and in this case you
presents in a very, very cruel way
we will find a look
discriminatory rejection and
ignorance and disrespect and they know
how it hurts more and the bet doubles
when I have seen it through a being
wanted a son of a father a brother
in my case a sister my sister does not
chose to have a degenerative disease
that the 20 years would reserve her
He chose to live many years in a chair
wheels and I lived through it the
looks of rejection and discrimination
institutional violence that does not
there would be an answer for these situations
then this situation and in so many
others would not be much better to live in
a diverse society that I saw with eyes
diversity with eyes acceptance
to give it life we have to use the
curiosity
Curiosity is an exercise must
stand in front of the unknown and
ask what better situation to
know how to soak up culture in front of
a person who presents it in flesh
live you do not have to go to google to
look for it
we have a voice to have a living being there and
from the respect because off can think
good but maybe he does not want that person
be asked if ok to think it’s worse
that person is judged because a
filling in the spaces that you’re not
asking with thought that perhaps
they are not the question if respect is done
to be fine and you can also
ask che bothers you ask
we can not change what we are not
we can choose to stop expressing our
diversity for fear of rejection because
we can not stop being what we are
we are all more or less diverse
I can not stop being Jewish one day
for the other because someone wakes up
and she says no because she is Jewish her bad person
others can not stop the ejido leave
to love who he loves because he is the same
same – sex gender
another person can not stop having a
skin color that maybe is not right in
that culture stop being obese stop
be petizo someone always something is going to
bother
then you do not have to do it because
we can even think about it I would like
retake the example the colors because
it happens that in the options we do a lot
this matter of the ordinary does not enter
black and white
what options do I have two is an optics not
and if we think about it somewhere else between white
and black to huge range that the scale of
gray
let’s talk about where we find
a lot of this the ordinary is
finds much in gender and sex
They teach us guys Men’s
women
the girls and boys the pink and the
celeste but that happens to name him spam
the other three genders man woman and
gender to gender and generated fluid to a
parenthesis here to define the latter
because maybe they have not heard them before
fluid gender are those people who
flow between man and woman to taste
happens to a new little word I’m
saying today he has never heard them
so how can you say that they do
best selections but to know the
options and how can you say that you respect
if you do not know me at this moment in my
I have my own game and all
tools my own kit I’m Jewish
as I said his wife
logically fluid artist was generated
morocha had and a lot of other
things and know that it is essential to know
all and each one
deeply to know who I am
I am also very freaky I love the
comic world to the art of those things
fantastic I did not remember the heroes
and the villains the heroes that are so
good and those who are no longer but so
bad and what will it bring today
today I spoke to you my great dream is today
it’s diversity and acceptance
those huge words are so powerful
that can change enormously all
as a society as people but there is a
great adversary the nemesis the great
villain and xenophobia and his henchmen
the other jewels and unjustified what
we see in this mister job is already fear or
the irrational hatred of another character
strange alien or exotic
of this amount in society then
must propose that we do the opposite
of the different a reason for celebration
because we think the difference as
that we as a society and think about
society also as a compound world
by small constellations that each
if rich we nuance give color to the whole
new ideas thoughts ways of
feel or colors that we see in a
handkerchief
I propose the art of ce no filia
because art is technical in technique
is the one known as the girl before and the
practice is done every day to
do a little more and not physical and
then I wonder what it is that to voice
after a stranger an alien an exotic
for others and play what’s around you
through two colors or a range
diverse
thank you very much
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