The power of diversity within yourself | Rebeca Hwang
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4.1 • 12.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Rebeca Hwang has spent a lifetime juggling identities -- Korean heritage, Argentinian upbringing, education in the United States -- and for a long time she had difficulty finding a place in the world to call home. Yet along with these challenges came a pivotal realization: that a diverse background is a distinct advantage in today's globalized world. In this personal talk, Hwang reveals the endless benefits of embracing our complex identities -- and shares her hopes for creating a world where identities aren't used to alienate but to bring people together instead.
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| 0:00.0 | This TED Talk features investor Rebecca Huang recorded live at TED-2018. |
| 0:08.0 | We're holding hands, staring at the door. |
| 0:11.0 | My siblings and I were waiting for my mother to come back from the hospital. |
| 0:16.0 | She was there because my grandmother had cancer surgery that day. |
| 0:21.6 | Finally, the doors opened, |
| 0:24.6 | and she said, |
| 0:25.6 | she's gone, she's gone. |
| 0:28.6 | She started sobbing and immediately said, |
| 0:31.6 | we must make arrangements. |
| 0:33.6 | Your grandmother's dying wish |
| 0:36.6 | was to be buried back home in Korea. |
| 0:41.0 | I was barely 12 years old, and when the shock were off, |
| 0:45.4 | my mother's words were ringing in my ears. |
| 0:49.1 | My grandmother wanted to be buried back home. |
| 0:53.6 | We had moved from Korea to Argentina six years prior, |
| 0:59.6 | without knowing any Spanish or how we're going to make a living. |
| 1:04.4 | And upon arrival, we're immigrants who had lost everything, |
| 1:08.6 | so we had to work really hard to rebuild their lives. |
| 1:11.6 | So it had to occur to me that after all these years, |
| 1:15.6 | back home was still in Korea. |
| 1:19.6 | It made me ponder where I would want to be buried someday, |
| 1:23.6 | where home was for me, |
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