A colorful case for outside-the-box thinking on identity | Olivia Vinckier

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🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Have you ever been forced to limit your identity to a single box on an application, survey or census questionnaire? For many, it is a futile and overall outdated exercise, especially for those with multiracial and multi-ethnic backgrounds. Olivia Vinckier makes the case for recognizing and accepting, rather than limiting, the growing reality that identity is multifaceted, ever-expanding -- and more more colorful than you think.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:07.2	Olivia Vincier doesn't fit into a single racial box when she fills out forms, and she doesn't
0:13.0	want to compress her identity.
0:15.3	Neither do millions of people like her in society.
0:18.8	In her 2022 talk from Ted X St. Francis High School, the student calls for a different
0:23.9	kind of categorization.
0:25.8	One that leaves the possibilities for our identity far more open.
0:30.8	Here from her after the break.
0:32.8	Hey, I'm Stephen Johnson, host of the Ted interview podcast.
0:39.0	On this show, we talk to some of the world's most interesting people.
0:43.3	On the latest episode, journalist Linda Villarosa discusses her decades-long fascination with
0:48.8	how the color of your skin dictates the kind of healthcare you receive.
0:53.4	We were taught to, oh, you just have to take good care of yourself, and then you will be
0:57.5	healthy for life.
0:59.2	And certainly that is not true.
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