What If You Were An Immigrant? | Ben Huh | TEDxPortland

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概要

TLDRIn die toespraak deel die spreker sy persoonlike immigrasie-ervaringe en die uitdagings wat daarmee gepaard gaan. Hy vertel van sy aankoms in die VSA as 'n 14-jarige, die moeilike omstandighede waaronder sy gesin gewoon het, en die moeilike werk wat hulle moes verrig om te oorleef. Hy lig die kontraste en evolusie van immigrasie uit oor die afgelope eeu, van natuurlike hindernisse tot mensgemaakte beleide en vooroordele. Die spreker benadruk die bydraes van immigrante tot die VSA, veral in terme van ekonomiese groei en diversiteit. Hy maak 'n beroep vir 'n intelligente gesprek oor immigrasiebeleid en wie toegelaat word om die land binne te kom, en beklemtoon dat die debat rondom immigrasie dikwels deur rassisme en vooroordele beïnvloed word. Aan die einde van die toespraak rig hy 'n appèl aan die publiek om betrokke te raak en te sorg dat hulle stemme gehoor word oor hierdie belangrike onderwerp.

収穫

  • 🌍 Immigrasie is 'n kompleks en emosioneel gelaaide onderwerp.
  • 🛑 Moderne immigrasie-uitdagings is meer mensgemaak as natuurlik.
  • 📈 Immigrante dra betekenisvol by tot die Amerikaanse ekonomie.
  • 🗣️ 'n Oop gesprek oor wie toegelaat word in die VSA is noodsaaklik.
  • 🤔 Immigrasiebeleid word dikwels beïnvloed deur rassisme en ander vooroordele.
  • 🏠 Persoonlike ervarings illustreer die uitdagings en voordele van immigrasie.
  • 💬 Politieke beleid moet die werklike waarde van immigrasie weerspieël.
  • 📊 Meer as 'n derde van Amerikaanse tegnologie-ondernemings het immigrant-medestigters.
  • ☝️ Die debat oor immigrasie moet nie net binne klein politieke kringe plaasvind nie.
  • 🛅 Die toekoms van die kontrasterende aspekte van immigrasie moet verder ondersoek word.

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    Die spreker deel sy persoonlike ervaring as 'n immigrant na die VSA en die uitdagings wat daarmee gepaard gaan. Hy beklemtoon die verskillende ervarings van immigrante, veral die gevoel van hoop en droom wat hulle dryf, ondanks die moeilike lewensomstandighede soos armoede. Hy beskryf hoe die immigrant-ervaring verander het oor die eeue en hoe sy eie ervaring hom bemagtig het om beide sy tuisland en die Amerikaanse kultuur te verstaan.

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    Die spreker bespreek die hedendaagse uitdaagings wat immigrante in die gesig staar, wat hoofsaaklik deur mensgemaakte polisse en vooroordele veroorsaak word, eerder as die natuur. Hy beskryf spesifieke situasies van skeiding en diskriminasie wat immigrante ervaar en beklemtoon die teenstrydigheid van die VSA se trots op 'n nasie van immigrante terwyl hulle steeds streng grense handhaaf. Hy kritiseer hoe immigrasiebeleid dikwels deur 'n elite bepaal word sonder breë publieke betrokkenheid.

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    Hy bring die punt tuis dat immigrasie noodsaaklik is vir die voortbestaan ​​en groei van die Amerikaanse ekonomie weens dalende geboortesyfers. Die verhaal word persoonlik namate hy sy gesin se moeilike begin in die VSA beskryf, maar uiteindelik sukses behaal het. Die spreker dring aan op 'n meer inklusiewe en eerlike debat oor wie toegelaat moet word om in die land in te kom, terwyl hy erken dat die kompleksiteit van immigrasie nie eenvoudig opgelos kan word nie.

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よくある質問

  • Waarom is immigrasie 'n belangrike onderwerp vir die spreker?

    Omdat hy 'n immigrant is en dit 'n onderwerp is wat baie na aan sy hart lê.

  • Hoe beskryf die spreker die verandering in immigrasie oor die afgelope eeu?

    Hy beskryf hoe immigrasie voorheen deur natuurkragte uitgedaag is terwyl dit nou deur mensgemaakte beleide en vooroordele beïnvloed word.

  • Wat is die spreker se siening oor die VSA se siening oor immigrasie?

    Hy glo dat daar 'n teenstrydigheid is tussen die VSA se trots op 'n land van immigrante en die moeite wat gedoen word om mense uit te hou.

  • Wat noem die spreker as sekere kritiek teenoor immigrante?

    Kritiek sluit in dat immigrante werk of hulpbronne wegneem, en daar is ras en oorspronggebaseerde vooroordele.

  • Hoe het immigrasie die spreker se lewe en sy gesin se lewens beïnvloed?

    Hy en sy gesin het moeilike finansiële tye beleef en sy ouers het gesukkel om 'n bestaan te maak, maar immigrasie het hom ook geleenthede gebied.

  • Watter beroep het die spreker en sy pa na immigrasie gevolg?

    Hulle het as skoonmakers gewerk en sukkel om finansieel kop bo water te hou.

  • Wat glo die spreker oor immigrante en die Amerikaanse ekonomie?

    Hy glo dat immigrasie noodsaaklik is vir die groei en volhoubaarheid van die Amerikaanse ekonomie.

  • Wat is die rol van immigrante in die Amerikaanse tegnologie sektor volgens die spreker?

    Meer as 'n derde van alle Amerikaanse tegnologie-ondernemings het ten minste een immigrant medestigter.

  • Waarom is daar 'n behoefte aan 'n oop bespreking oor immigrasie volgens die spreker?

    Omdat dit belangrik is om te verstaan wie ons as 'n samelewing in ons land wil hê en om invloed op immigrasiebeleide te hê.

  • Wat was 'n persoonlike ervaring wat die spreker oor sy jeug gedeel het?

    Hy het vertel oor die verleentheid om vriende huis toe te bring na 'n eenkamer woonstel waar sy ouers op 'n matras in die sitkamer geslaap het.

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    14 I was able to understand what it's
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    like to be an American yet still be an
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    immigrant imant if I came here if I was
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    that I may have been set in my ways as a
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    immigrant or may maybe I would have
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    acted more like a second generation
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    where I didn't remember where I came
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    from but because I was 14 I remember I
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    remember all these things I remember
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    living in a one-bedroom apartment with
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    my parents there was a mattress on the
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    living room
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    floor my I was the only child so my
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    parents gave me the bedroom and they
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    slept out on the mattress on the living
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    room floor and and I remember their
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    horror and the shame on their face when
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    I brought my friends home from
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    school I remember that moment when I
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    walked in through the door with the kids
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    and my parents are like you didn't tell
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    me that you were going to bring guests
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    and that awkward moment when they were
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    trying to figure out what to do with
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    that mattress on the living room floor
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    and we had no place for my friends to
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    sit immigration is a very very unfair
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    trade I don't know if many of you have
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    immigrant parents but they pay for
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    everything they pay the costs we the
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    children reap the benefits and as my
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    parents like to joke the grandkids will
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    forget about it all and they'll become
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    useless probably because they spoil them
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    but not my
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    fault so when I look at my immigration
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    experience I was 14 my parents uh
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    brought me here we had relatives
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    it isn't poverty poverty is defined by
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    the whole by the cold and the hunger of
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    it all it is very all over twist that is
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    what I think of when I think about
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    poverty many immigrants live in near or
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    in
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    poverty many immigrants do not it is not
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    a monolithic
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    experience yet many immigrants
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    experience poverty in its own way yet
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    the reason we believe in the Immigrant
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    experience is that the poverty is filled
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    the lack of something in it and
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    it's and it is filled by dreams it is
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    filled by hope so that when you are
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    living in a one-bedroom when you cannot
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    pay the bills for your
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    phone we justify it by saying there's a
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    better future for the next
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    generation and the strangeness of it all
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    is that essenti ago immigration was very
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    very different a century ago immigration
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    was defined by something completely
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    different than what we experience
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    today
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    1912
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    steamships
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    railroads no automobiles for people to
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    crisscross on the highway no internet no
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    access to
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    information the greatest suffering for
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    immigrants was caused by Nature by the
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    world that we live in the phys physical
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    world itself
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    distance illness acts of
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    God being able to sail around the world
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    to reach America was physically
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    challenging your ship could be
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    Shipwrecked you could run out of water
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    you could die of thirst and disease and
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    when you got into that train to cross
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    America you had no idea of what was on
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    the other side but a 100 years later
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    today it is vastly different
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    the suffering immigration is caused by
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    man it is not nature for the most part
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    we have conquered nature you can get on
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    a plane right now and in 12 hours be on
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    the other side of the planet being
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    served drinks and little cocktails along
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    the
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    way very different than a
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    steamship today the suffering of an
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    immigrant is man-made by policy
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    it is separation not distance it is if I
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    leave this country and I'm a Canadian
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    let's say I may not be able to get back
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    across the border I may not be able to
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    visit my friends because what if they
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    question my immigration status on the
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    border and reject
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    me this happens a lot more than my
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    Canadian friends like to admit it is
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    bureaucracy people waiting 20 years to
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    enter the lottery to receive a permit to
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    migrate to the United States States
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    watching their relatives and their
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    nephews grow old and unable to visit it
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    is Prejudice it is reading about
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    yourself as an immigrant in the papers
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    and knowing that's not
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    true it is easier to ship a box of
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    bananas from India than to reunite a
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    child from there with our parents in the
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    United
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    States the world has gotten small but we
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    have erected barriers to to keep people
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    out yet at the same time if you ask
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    everyone in the United States that will
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    almost certainly tell you that this
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    country was built on immigrants and
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    immigration that we are all a nation of
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    immigrants yet for some reason we are
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    uncomfortable with the idea of letting
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    people
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    in that while we recognize the value and
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    have erected a statue that says give me
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    your tired you're poor you huddled
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    masses yearning to breathe
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    free we don't like to see the people
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    outside our
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    borders as
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    people I'm not sure what drives this
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    fear most people aren't really afraid of
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    me I post cat pictures on the
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    internet maybe it's because they believe
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    that there's a finite number of jobs in
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    the United States that there are three
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    00 and some million people and there's
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    probably 150 million jobs and if
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    somebody takes my job I'll never get
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    that job
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    back maybe we believe that the that in
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    order for the economy to grow that only
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    those people with
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    skilled intellectuals or laborers who
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    can do special things should be leted
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    in I came here as a 14-year-old my only
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    skill set was annoying the shut out of
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    my parents
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    maybe and this starts to get a little
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    bit more
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    uncomfortable maybe we believe that only
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    certain people that look like me should
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    be led into this country maybe we
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    believe that only certain people who
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    come from countries where we had
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    historical immigration should be led
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    into the
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    country
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    strangely our elected politicians do not
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    ask you what you believe in
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    they set immigration policy and we just
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    go
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    along immigration is usually debated in
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    tight political Circles of people who
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    are in the know who have experience yet
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    we all claim to be descendants of
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    immigrants sadly our view of immigration
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    has always been affected by
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    race Chinese Exclusion Act there's a
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    reason why almost every Asian American
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    that you see in the street has been here
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    no no before the
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    1960s that before the 1960s this country
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    outlawed people who look like me I'm
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    Korean by the way so I don't take really
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    offense to that
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    but I'm
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    kidding National Origins quota system
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    fancy words for saying we don't want
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    Eastern European immigrants back in the
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    1800s Arizona State Bill 1070
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    if you're Brown we stop you and ask you
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    if you really belong
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    here these are actual laws of this
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    country has
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    passed that is about immigration about
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    PE keeping people out and figuring out
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    who to let in whatever label you put on
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    them whatever fancy acronym you can put
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    on them it doesn't hide the fact that we
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    have very
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    very outdated
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    views on immigration versus what we
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    actually believe in this room we don't
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    want to be racist but somehow we keep
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    letting our politicians pass these
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    bills and it turns out as I looked more
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    and more into this the conclusion that I
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    drew was not that immigration itself is
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    controversial in fact one of the reasons
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    why the United States has a growing
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    economy and a growing population while
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    rest of the developed world has a a
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    birth rate that is declining and
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    declining to a point where they are
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    unable to sustain their own social
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    safety nets and tax base the reason this
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    country continues to
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    have a population that is thriving that
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    is diverse is due to
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    immigration most people uh most
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    Generations who've been in this country
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    for more than three or more Generations
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    uh no longer create babies at a rate
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    that actually makes this economy
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    sustainable in fact most of our
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    population growth has come from Hispanic
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    migration if it weren't for them we'd
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    have more houses than we could fill
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    people with more dollars and more uh
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    retirees to support that our working
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    folks can actually uh provide for this
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    system is
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    fragile yet people want to keep
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    everybody else out without recognizing
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    that the system
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    relies on immigration to continue to
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    grow and support itself so it led me to
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    believe that it's only certain kinds of
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    people that is actually controversial
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    maybe it's not just race maybe it has to
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    do with origin maybe it has to do with
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    religion when I planned this talk with
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    the tedex uh Portland folks immigration
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    was kind of on the
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    radar and a and a week ago two
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    immigrants that detonated a bomb in
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    Boston what was their race what was a
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    religion does it
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    matter I don't know
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    after coming to the United States my
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    father and I worked as a janitor in
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    office we were not skilled laborers
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    there were plenty of agents to go around
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    we worked as a janitor and our suffering
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    of working as an immigrant making $2,000
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    a month as an entire
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    family was actually made
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    harder we
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    were cleaning out trash cans the people
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    who in the office that when you work
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    late come in and empty out the trash
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    that was us
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    I remember collecting all the empty soda
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    cans that were in the trash it was oh my
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    God stunk to high heaven but I remember
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    putting that in a black plastic bag in
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    the balcony of our of our one-bedroom
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    apartment and we had collected enough to
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    like literally like we couldn't go out
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    on the balcony anymore I remember
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    trading that in it was like my allowance
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    empty soda cans we traded it in and got
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    $150 it was amazing like it was hard
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    labor I earned it I still remember the
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    smell of that rotting
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    soda it was $120 apparently
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    um The Immigrant owners of the
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    janitorial business Steed us a month of
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    work my mother my father and myself on
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    all we had to show for was
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    $120 it's not that all immigrants are
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    good I'm not saying that some of us are
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    good some of us are bad in fact we're
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    probably more of a reflection of of
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    America as it is today than most people
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    are willing to admit
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    but in some
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    cases in one generation between my
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    parents and myself we can go from babies
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    that were born in post Korean War where
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    they had no electricity no
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    infrastructure my father graduated from
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    middle school and didn't go back my
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    mother has a high school degree we came
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    to the United States and I built an
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    internet technology business in
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    Seattle I don't if there's causation I
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    don't know even if there's correlation I
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    don't know what drives that it feels
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    random but it happens over and over
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    again more than a third of all American
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    Technology startups have at least one
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    immigrant
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    co-founder I don't know why that
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    is but what I want to understand
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    is as the number of
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    people who start to look at immigration
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    rise as we get closer to debating this
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    bill they will recognize that my story
  • 00:14:34
    is not unique they may also recognize
  • 00:14:37
    that there may be more
  • 00:14:39
    terrorists in the immigration population
  • 00:14:42
    than they had recognized
  • 00:14:43
    before that the good May outweigh the
  • 00:14:46
    bad that we do not actually know
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    holistically who these immigrants are
  • 00:14:51
    that all these people collectively when
  • 00:14:53
    they show up on our borders we may not
  • 00:14:56
    be able to judge the character of these
  • 00:14:58
    people
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    by the passports that they
  • 00:15:03
    bring so then the question
  • 00:15:06
    becomes who do we let in somebody at
  • 00:15:09
    dinner asked me last night so who do we
  • 00:15:11
    let in what is the
  • 00:15:14
    answer I don't know that it's important
  • 00:15:16
    for me to tell you my answer because it
  • 00:15:19
    doesn't really matter at the end of the
  • 00:15:21
    day I am one voter one naturalized
  • 00:15:24
    American
  • 00:15:26
    citizen but it it makes me
  • 00:15:35
    we're
  • 00:15:37
    missing an opportunity to have an
  • 00:15:40
    intelligent discussion about what we the
  • 00:15:43
    people
  • 00:15:46
    want we
  • 00:15:52
    are we are letting other people decide
  • 00:15:56
    who we led into this country
  • 00:16:03
    this is the second time I've teared out
  • 00:16:05
    of a tedes talk I don't know what's up
  • 00:16:06
    with
  • 00:16:14
    that do not let this opportunity
  • 00:16:18
    pass it doesn't matter whether you agree
  • 00:16:20
    with me or
  • 00:16:22
    not it only matters that we actually
  • 00:16:26
    talk about who do we believe we should
  • 00:16:28
    should let in and that we tell people
  • 00:16:31
    who are in the office to make these
  • 00:16:33
    decisions and let them know that we
  • 00:16:36
    believe in something that we will not
  • 00:16:38
    let them make that decision for us thank
  • 00:16:41
    you
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