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Am I Holding a Camera, or a Mirror? | Haslina Atif | TEDxYouth@YCYWShanghai
TEDx Talks· 2025-07-08 15:27
[Music] What happens when the place you're from doesn't really feel like it belongs to you. And what if instead of ignoring that discomfort, you dare to ask why. I was born into a cross-cultural life.Born and raised in China, Pakistani by blood, fluent in English and struggling in Udu. It often felt like I was living in a translation. Sometimes too local to be foreign or too foreign to be local.And at the time I thought there was something wrong with that until I picked up a camera. It initially started as ...