Our Dreams for Tomorrow | Youth Group | TEDxYangon
[Music] [Music] my name is freshers I'm 16 and today I want to talk about parents kids and the future so when people think are preparing us for the future the first thing that comes to mind is education parents seems to have a simple concept good grades in school studying abroad a financially secure future and therefore long term happiness but for some parents even good grades aren't enough no their kids need to be better than other kids I would need to be better than my friends and this idea of competition is encouraged by the system itself every year instead of appreciating all the other students who worked hard enough to get an A the system comes out with a list of the top ten students and they're seen as better than everyone else but these parents can't be blamed for their misguided goals growing up in a developing country they understand the struggle for education better than anyone else they know the potential of that education has for us and they'll do anything to give us the future that they never had even if it means seven hours of school followed by five more hours of tuition see I go to an international school and I'm fully aware that I'm very lucky to be able to do so because at my school were encouraged to ask questions and wonder why and give opposing viewpoints and I'm not saying the systems are all perfect the idea of competition is still very much there but I'm not expected to memorize an entire textbook just to repeat it all in the exam and I don't have to deal with being struck with a ruler in front of my entire class just because I forgot my homework that day this is what my friends at many schools still have to deal with every single day on top of all the normal pressures there being the best and sure kids learn to be obedient and yeah they get good grades but what people need to understand is that this comes with a cost this costs us our independence this costs us our curiosity and this costs us our freedom which is why my drink for tomorrow 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she was not considered kindly by her friends and family members every time anything went wrong with my brother say having a scratch on his knees or even catching a fever she had to take the convenient blame for being a young walking mom well first for 35 years a close friend of mine recently give birth to a beautiful baby girl and she left her successful accounting career behind willingly happily and without any second thoughts why she should be considered a trophy moms by the standards a few decades ago she was considered at someone who stopped achieving professionally and someone chosen a life of mundane stay-at-home mom so yes in this simple example we might not be defined by the same norms that existed in our parents days but still by the new ones that equally intertwine with ones freedom of choice we so proudly say that our society today is more tolerant than ever towards race religion gender or sexual orientation and yet our very own individuality our opinions our actions no matter how personal or harmless the earth has never been more openly judged especially these days with the easy access to social media it's just a matter of few clicks to put someone under the microscope and do the correct assassination should we agree to pay those hidden prizes for the advances of the time we live in it is time we question ourselves whether we're actually being considerate towards friends families or even strangers on social media before putting them against our own sets of beliefs and standards I believe we all have seen that scene in the movie where a policeman handcuffs a person takes them to the court and say anything you say can or will be used against you well the irony today is that you don't need handcuffs or to stand in front of a judge to be criticized harshly to be precise and apologetically to be criticized irrationally for anything we say do you feel we tell our children to follow their dreams and it's okay to be different but what kind of world will we live in for them if we don't start to defend the right of individuality and expressing oneself against the watchful norms I was hot enough already without the outside expectations on the choices you make with your partner career or who you hang out with my dream for tomorrow is we individuals should be able to make different right decisions at different times in our lives and the Liberty and right to do so should be ours and ours alone thank you [Applause] tomorrow I'll tell me something localization to deliver a see tomorrow satellite channel - booyah - my area that we went on a trip or even on a sunny afternoon GG ugly today don't say Allah totally somewhere amino - schiavelli autogenic on your car sandwich honorable yeah absolutely who sit on your leader - who are they typically never having metal occupying the netted knee so sorry so sorry TT a congruent Oh Peter Peter Kotori notice our invidual tomorrow Schiaparelli through local civil debatable tomorrow chia pet Maria de la lucha 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tomorrow everybody along just vanishing [Applause] my name is Trenton and I am masada I have made a lot of mistakes in bad choices but there is only one thing that I still regret three years ago my father looked right at me and said son it is wrong to be gay and you still have time to change I knew and had accepted myself as gay when I was 13 and it was not easy when my father asked me to change of course I wanted to change well at least I tried like everybody here I never wanted to get bullied in high school I wanted to oh my boyfriend's had like other couples too I wanted to be the son that my father wanted I do not regret being gay but the fact that I said nothing back and replied to my father back then I just said there and not it I think the problem here is the lack of communication between parents and children heart-to-heart communications are the key to this it's easier said than done the full concept of a person being gay is so bizarre and so unreal to our parents that they almost immediately rejected they are like children who do not want to eat broccoli when they've never tried it before the road to acceptance is trust and faith and this time taking process comes with conversations that matter perceptions takes time to change and so is the case with my father the problem shall persist but in this case I know that I am being true to myself and in the long run this shall help everybody has the right to love who they want currently I am in the process of proving my father that I am a capable person my parents have not accepted the fact that I'm gay yet I love love love my mom and dad so much and I am 100% sure that they love me way more than I love them that's why I hid my heart I believe that one day they will there will be a day when all parents can be able to have both eyes with their children once they step out of their comfort zone trying to understand their perspective the only problem ever starts the moment you stop communicating is a one go to relationship advice to all of my friends so I urge everyone to talk now is the time that we start speaking loud and clear to our families friends and communities and speak about our differences my dream for tomorrow is a society in which everyone can proudly be themselves and accept them as they are thank you [Applause] my name is Joe dirtay I am an engineering student by profession and a student advocate I passion when I was a kid I couldn't wait to grow up and go to university mainly because high school was boring we we couldn't speak we had to sit all day looking at those like an white textbook where else in the university I imagine there'll be people singing dancing debating sport cartoons and poems I am also inspired by general unsung and the Students Union leaders that stood up against the British for independence so in 2012 after graduating from high school I joined Yangon Technological University previously known as RIT just to find out that it's also empty it's like going to high school all over again and it didn't it didn't feel right so we held the first elections to reestablish the Student Union the literature talks the sports festivals and everything that we could imagine we see students unions are highly influential in yanmar political movement RIT in nineteen nineteen eighty eight would be a brilliant example other thing and we really cherish that that that history that legacy at the same time we believe that political advocacy can be done in many different ways in our case we dedicated to empower our students by connecting them with the best global practices we are a bunch of engineering students but let's talk about entrepreneurship Center T and climate change let's do a Model UN or a Moodle Austrian meeting let's organize an innovation competition to find creative solution to our society which we just did on how to build a small city of the in this narrow the fourth Industrial Revolution does not limit what a Students Union can or cannot do or they are far greater challenges nationally and globally my dream for tomorrow is to revitalize the campus life of Myanmar University [Applause] [Music]