Cultural Analysis - Current cultural state is defined by 'omnivore tastes', where individuals mix high-end and low-end fashion [1] - The collapse of traditional status signals makes it difficult to visually determine someone's wealth or social standing [1] - The source of wealth is often unclear, whether it's from crypto, grifting, talent, generational wealth, or debt [1] - It's hard to visually place individuals on a hierarchy due to the ambiguity of their financial background [1]

When Freddy Mercury wrote his piece, he didn't belong to one culture. He was born in Zanzibar, raised in India and became a legend in England. His life [music] just as his music was mix of words, sounds and emotions.And yet when we listen to it, we don't think of geography. We just feel, we connect. That's the power of diversity.Culture has its [music] own reasons, it own way to express joy. Pain or love. And when we listen truly listen to music that isn't ours, something happens.We recognize ourselves in o ...

They can stamp my passport, deny it, revoke it, shred it, burn it to ash, but they will never erase me. Because the passport is paper, fragile, temporary, a mere bureaucratic bookmark in a much larger story. The mosaic is me carved from Mumbai streets colored with Botswana slang lit with [snorts] Costa Rican rhythms.I am fragments stitched together not flattened into one box. And here's the truth. If globalization keeps reducing us to paper, it will erase every unrecorded song, every unpronounced name, and ...

[music] Good afternoon. Namaste and welcome. Thank you for having me on the stage.Uh what a fantastic joy. This is the first time that I ever been on a TEDex stage. But having heard all the speakers from the morning, I feel like I'm among friends.So thank you for having me over and I look forward to uh sharing my perspective on a few uh topics that I had in mind to discuss with you all. Um very interesting uh topic and as someone who is very visually uh tickled I needed to have an image that kind of caught ...

[music] [applause] I didn't get here because I was extraordinary. I got here because I kept getting back up every single time. Hello everyone. My name is Sishh Kurada. I'm the managing director and CEO of Bines Consulting Private Limited. I help build companies, but more importantly, I help build people. What you're about to hear isn't a tale of perfection. It's a story of failures, resilience, and one belief that changed everything. If you keep rolling the dice, one day life will be set. Once upon a time i ...

Hey, [Music] hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. [Music] All right.I'm Ray and I'm a proud young Radbury person. And I'm Ebony, a proud young Wadri girl. We are part of Mian M.We are incredibly honored to be here today performing at TEDex Aubry. We pay our respects to elders past and present and other first nations people here today. We all come from different mobs Wajgerie Bark and Nampa but we come together as one on Waji ...

[applause] If Africa does not shape AI, then AI will shape Africa. A couple years ago, I was having a conversation with a good friend of mine named Nala. Nala was telling me about her upbringing in an impoverished rural town back home in Ghana. She was telling me that the educational system back home had broken down.There could be 50 students in one classroom sharing textbooks, pens, whatever they could just to get by. Nala wasn't even exposed to computers. despite there being a small internet cafe within t ...

There’s no time like the end of the year to catch up on the culture you missed.An irreverent guide to the year in culture: 🔗 https://t.co/Fqa5AlSBIa https://t.co/L4pKrBuKgH ...

This is the hard truthThe Matt Walsh Show (@MattWalshShow):We need to protect our culture https://t.co/lJPomQRpCM ...

Here is Chanel Cruz. [Applause] I was around 8 years old in my elementary class when we were reading in our social studies book. We must have been reading something about the United States and our ties to our neighboring country, Mexico.As we were reading the passage, so we collectively got to a word in the passage we did not know. Aguila. What is an aguila.I remember trying to decipher this word on the paper, but it seemed to me my teacher did not know either because when I recognized that this word was in ...