okay, one last thing

[la_vie_noire]

Via everyone.

Listen to this woman, just listen to her, turn on the subtitles if you aren't as a good as English, but listen.

Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story.

Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

ETA: It reminds how some Spanish women once asked me how things were in Latin America, because they heard people were very poor, or were very rich, and since I had a computer, I must have been very rich. I told them no, I was actually probably as rich as they were, my family has a car, but we were definitely not rich. They were surprised I had the same things they had, not more, not less, and was still called "middle class" here. But then they told me I was an exception or something, or things in other Latin American countries besides mine were like that. Funny how mine is one of the poorest around here.

Comments

[fujurpreux.livejournal.com]

That speech is all kinds of awesome. ;_; *wants to marry it*

[fujurpreux.livejournal.com]

Oh, about your ETA: Yes, we can has middle class. |D

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah. And it is awesome!

[sha-chan.livejournal.com]

dlgjdfkjgldkfjlg Mujer tan awesome ;; Casi me hace llorar, omg quiero ser como ella ;.;

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Ajajaja, era lo que yo pensaba Sha! Quiero ser así cuando crezca!

[logovo.livejournal.com]

Wonderful video, thank you. It helped me tonight and will help me later on in explaning things that I couldn't say anywhere near as clearly.

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Exactly, she said everything I wanted to say but don't know how to word.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful. I wish I could say something more coherent about it but I have to let it all sink first, I think.

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[ilye-aru.livejournal.com]

Ah, no me alcanzan las palabras para expresar lo mucho que me llegó el video. Hasta me hizo botar un par de lagrimones ;;

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Awww, que suerte Ilye, la verdad Adichie es una gran oradora.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was mindblowing.

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

I know, it is!

[outou.livejournal.com]

That was amazing in how insightful and cutting it was. Thank you for sharing it with everyone.

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, it's really awesome.

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But then they told me I was an exception or something, or things in other Latin American countries besides mine were like that.

This. (I will never forget the US citizen who asked my sister if, when we lived in Mexico, we rode a burrito-- yes, the food-- to school. I think he must've been "burro," but FUCK, if you're going to ask stupid questions, AT LEAST ASK THEM WITH MINIMUM IDIOCY.)

[parlance.livejournal.com]

Sorry, you don't know me, but this gave me the best laugh all day.

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I'm glad it did *someone* some good, at some point. :D

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

.... Dude. Do people that stupid exist? A burro to school. What.

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If it was at *least* a burro they'd asked about, but no. They asked if about *burritos*. >(

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Yeah that... I don't even know. Just... did you kill them?

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In my mind I did. A lot.

[allira-dream.livejournal.com]

Wow, simply mindblowing.

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

I know, amazing.

[makotomitsunari.livejournal.com]

dioses, que lindo....
que bello relato xD que grandiosa mujer! por diooooo!!!!!!
"mi compañera de cuarto se shockeo al ver que hablaba ingles perfectamente, y entonces le dije que en nigeria el idioma oficial es el ingles" XDDD y le "puso marih carey como musica tribal" XD mortaaaal xDDDD
dioses, que impresionante.... " la idea de que la gente de africa era gente esperando ser salvada por blancos extrajeros"....
dioses! que un profesor te califique si era o no autenticamente " africana" lo que escribio! que idioooota, quien es para decir que es o no lo autenticamete "africano"?
LOL "si no le daba verguenza que una persona de nigeria fuera un abusador xD y que ella simplemente habia leido uan novela de un asesino serial americano xD" eso fue un fail total para el gringo xD
dioses, que bellos relatos, que bella exposición, ya mismo pongo el video en mi blog también. Es bellisimo.
Gracias noir! y menos mal que tenia subtitulos! y uso un ingles bastante amigable que pude entender! :D
besooootes

PD: no se si lo dije, pero también me recordó a la experiencia de vivir en españa, donde a mi madre le preguntaban cómo podia ser que una argentina tuviera piel blanca y ojos verdes, y si en argentina aún usábamos flechas para cazar y vestíamos taparabos.......u.u que imbeciles!

[makotomitsunari.livejournal.com]

chimamanda adichie web site! :D
http://www.l3.ulg.ac.be/adichie/

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Ajajajajaj, lo sé, la verdad que dijo todo lo que una simepre quiere decir pero no sale. Excelente.

Y sí, me hizo recordar cuando yo veía dibujitos de chica, yo fui a pre-escolar y una de las primeras cosas que la maestra nos pidió fue dibujar "las 4 estaciones". ¿Mi dibujo de invierno? Algo parecido a una nena patinando sobre el hielo en la nieve. Hasta ahora recuerdo como la maestra se rió, y yo entonces no entendí por qué así que nunca lo olvidé. ahora se me vino a la mente por razones totalmente diferentes.

Gracias por la página !XD

[makotomitsunari.livejournal.com]

es cierto. Eso que comentas es muy común en la infancia..... dibujar nieve en lugares donde no nieva....
Suponogo que tal vez, pasa principalmente porque los paises termian importando la mayoria de los dibujos animados que se los suponen "indefensos".... y hay cada cosa!.....