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Your Culture Is Your Instrument | Daniel Custódio | TEDxVCU
TEDx Talks· 2026-05-12 15:35
There's a story about a youth orchestra in Paraguay whose entire community is built on a landfill. A place where the sound of a violin shouldn't even exist. But the children do something extraordinary.They take the materials that the world throws away and turn them into instruments. A violin made from a rusted metal can. A cello made from scrap wood and aluminum. Percussion made from old buckets and bottle caps.Nothing about that environment says beauty should come out of it. And yet when the children begin ...
A Thousand Languages, Lost Word by Word | Muhammad Zaki Tasnim Mubarak | TEDxUII
TEDx Talks· 2026-05-12 15:27
I am one of the main reason why my local language is slowly die and I think you might be too. Indonesia is a multilingual nations which means majority of its speaker can speak more than just one language. So that's why our preachers always told us to prioritize the Indonesian language to preserve local language and to master international language.But how about its implementation on reality. Well, nowadays a lot of Indonesian people are already using Indonesian language as their and daily language and it's ...
A Culture That Worships Being Busy | Sarah Lan | TEDxOLQW Youth
TEDx Talks· 2026-05-11 16:17
Let's do a quick check-in. Raise your hand if you've ever felt proud of being busy. Like having a packed schedule makes you feel accomplished or important.Now, keep your hands raised. Look around. You'll see that you're not alone.You guys could put your hands down now. That pride, that instinct to feel validated by exhaustion, that's culture. When people ask me what I do in my free time, I laugh.Free time. What's that. Between school, piano lessons, Chinese lessons, math lessons, French lessons, and swimmin ...
Why your family rituals matter | Nikita Kanani & Naia Kanani-Ferdinand | TEDxAlleyns School Youth
TEDx Talks· 2026-05-10 13:30
What do you think of when I say food. The smell of garlic frying, melted cheese stretching, the sizzling of mustard seeds. Okay, give me a thumbs up if you thought of a favorite dish, favorite cuisine, or the interval snack.Okay, thumbs up if you thought of the person who would make that dish for you. >> A few. Okay, thumbs down, not thumbs down.Um, you see, for us in our family, food is not just food. >> Um, unless it's a potato, then it's purely a potato. >> Okay, that's fair.Um, for us in our family, foo ...
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The Economist· 2026-05-08 15:50
To wander around the centre of Belfast is to encounter breathtaking images, from duelling men to animals—so many that there’s an app to guide you https://t.co/hgp75uvnFJ ...
Festivals that Build Communities | Madhvi Kukreja | TEDxLucknow
TEDx Talks· 2026-05-08 15:15
[music] I'm going to go from exact opposite to serve before me and I'm going to talk about how small can be beautiful and um I have worked as an activist all my life. So a social entrepreneur, a social activist, the values that have guided my work have been all the the the value of equality that is we're talking about cast, class, religion, we're talking about gender. Then I talk about passion. I think you cannot work without passion.Then I talk about musti. I think you cannot work about musti. I don't unde ...
Stand Firm, Shine Bright | Professor Dr. Dawood Abdulmalek Yahya Al-Hidabi | TEDxIIUM
TEDx Talks· 2026-05-06 14:58
Alhamdulillah. First of all, thank you for coming tonight to listen to the different speakers. My emphasis will be how to be confirmed, how to confirm yourself and stick to your identity, culture and ethics.But at the same time, how to engage with outside world critically. First of all, let us talk about one thing is that why young people they drift aside sometimes in this contemporary era. Maybe never happened in the past as much as we can get it now.Well, despite the fact that they have better opportuniti ...