Is your identity given or created? | Marcus Lyon | TEDxExeter

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  • čas přidán 10. 05. 2016
  • Who are we? Marcus asks us to question how our identities are formed. Using Somos Brasil (We are Brazil), a multi media photography, sound and DNA project, he brings us images, stories and ancestral DNA to examine modern Brazilian identity. In turn he asks us to consider what drives us and what we can become.
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    At TEDxExeter 2016 our speakers encapsulated the idea of movement, that grappling with humanity’s toughest questions requires first a vision, a dream, and then action.
    Video Production Chromatrope (chromatrope.co.uk/)
    Production Manager Andy Robertson ( / familygamertv )
    Marcus Lyon is a British artist. He began his career with Amnesty International and The International Children’s Trust photographing street children in Latin America, Africa and Asia. He has an international reputation as a conceptual landscape and portraiture artist and has photographed notable public figures including the last four British Prime Ministers and Queen Elizabeth II. His most recent bodies of work on urban expansion, Brazilian national identity, mass migration and modern dance have been shown globally.
    Marcus is also a committed social entrepreneur. He currently serves on the boards of Somerset House and Leader’s Quest, and is a founder ambassador for The Consortium for Street Children, Photovoice, BLESMA and Home Start.
    This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

Komentáře • 102

  • @nickaoke
    @nickaoke Před 4 lety +72

    I'll go with Jung: "I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become."

  • @smyrnasstory
    @smyrnasstory Před 3 lety +31

    “When you have a strong sense of identity, you stand up for your beliefs instead of allowing your peers to control you”
    Aw18#2

    • @giesk597
      @giesk597 Před rokem

      Who is aw18#2?

    • @adzoyz3513
      @adzoyz3513 Před rokem

      But where did your beliefs come from?

    • @leopemberton5439
      @leopemberton5439 Před 4 měsíci

      Only problem is is beliefes are not facts And create wars and separation
      Beliefes can be useful but not to kill over

    • @smyrnasstory
      @smyrnasstory Před 4 měsíci

      @@adzoyz3513 From “The New World Translation”

  • @zeevaloni3065
    @zeevaloni3065 Před 5 lety +83

    MIssed the point completely

  • @denyscruz
    @denyscruz Před 7 lety +3

    Great project for us from Brazil.

  • @Permanentpriestess
    @Permanentpriestess Před 8 dny

    Possibly the only tedtalk I heard from start to finish

  • @marcuslyon
    @marcuslyon Před 4 lety +11

    If we are a sum of the stories we have been told, then when we speak we are a multitude...

  • @h4dvision970
    @h4dvision970 Před 3 lety +8

    Have to do an assesment basing myself on this TED talk, very interesting topic.

  • @ethanyang6526
    @ethanyang6526 Před 3 lety +102

    bruh came here for homework actually missed the point

  • @MariaSilva31
    @MariaSilva31 Před 3 lety +2

    I love it! Thanks for sharing.

  • @WeideMarket
    @WeideMarket Před rokem +3

    SUCH A POWERFUL message! Saving this as one of my favourite TED-talks!

  • @carenasharp1823
    @carenasharp1823 Před 3 lety +3

    Through Interacting different people who possess distinct cultures and values shape you

  • @startvweview5605
    @startvweview5605 Před 4 lety +3

    Thanks again

  • @Rhygenix
    @Rhygenix Před 4 lety +27

    Everything that has affected you has affected your identity.

    • @user-zq3rf7fs5g
      @user-zq3rf7fs5g Před 4 lety +4

      your past is not an absolute determinant of your present/future. Study resilience.

    • @Rhygenix
      @Rhygenix Před 4 lety +1

      @@user-zq3rf7fs5g Experience by its very nature changes us

    • @user-zq3rf7fs5g
      @user-zq3rf7fs5g Před 4 lety +2

      @@Rhygenix I believe identity is what we choose to do with what we have, rather than just accepting what happened to us as our identity.

    • @Rhygenix
      @Rhygenix Před 4 lety +5

      @@user-zq3rf7fs5gThe latter is not what I mean. Every experience forces a choice. Regardless of the choice, it is part of your identity that those events happened to you. It is part your identity how you decided. How you decide reinforces or reshapes your identity. Heard of the ship of Theseus?

  • @bushido6882
    @bushido6882 Před 4 lety +34

    We can write fictions of ourselves because we are, after all, nothing - an empty palette.

    • @Rhygenix
      @Rhygenix Před 4 lety

      Blank slate? Psychologically hardly at all.

    • @benjaminlquinlan8702
      @benjaminlquinlan8702 Před 3 lety +1

      We are not a completely empty palette - pretty empty... but not totally.

  • @MatrixMaster777
    @MatrixMaster777 Před 6 lety +1

    Thanks For Sharing!

    • @v.dargain1678
      @v.dargain1678 Před 4 lety

      Yes ! Identity is the foundation of the identity politician's political platform .

  • @haochengloucosmopolitan2697

    "Camera is the tool to freeze the time"

  • @MattCalthrop
    @MattCalthrop Před 8 lety +22

    Nice one Marcus! Very well done, great message.

  • @Permanentpriestess
    @Permanentpriestess Před 8 dny

    So beautiful ❤

  • @aaronhermanoff1483
    @aaronhermanoff1483 Před 4 lety +19

    Missed the point

  • @ameenaimran2693
    @ameenaimran2693 Před 4 lety +3

    Plz explain ur point... So then what is identity

  • @leekenyon8705
    @leekenyon8705 Před 3 lety +3

    Your reflection is part of your identity .

  • @diegoambrosio5718
    @diegoambrosio5718 Před 3 lety +8

    To anyone who missed the point: 11:52

    • @shxdo3712
      @shxdo3712 Před rokem

      Thanks but to be more accurate it would ne 12:11

  • @malissapurser1799
    @malissapurser1799 Před 5 lety +3

    We are sum of all our stories

  • @sonjavital3514
    @sonjavital3514 Před 5 lety +1

    A masterpiece if u ask me

  • @glynnispitcher9423
    @glynnispitcher9423 Před 2 lety +2

    ( REHAB TIME! ) PERSONAL IDENTITY DEPENDS ON CONSCIOUSNESS NOT ON SUBSTANCE. FACTS OVA FEELINGS!

  • @sujayraomandavilli4732
    @sujayraomandavilli4732 Před 3 lety +1

    go through my work on identity theory

  • @maudecoulombe1640
    @maudecoulombe1640 Před rokem

    Come to Québec, Canada, the french nation to see his originality, like the originality of Brazil.

  • @leopemberton5439
    @leopemberton5439 Před 4 měsíci

    Our identity at best human being.

  • @jimflask1164
    @jimflask1164 Před 6 lety +28

    We have been discussing identity for 2000 years, my identity was stolen by the state where I was born and turned into a instrumentality of government, I am an "internally displaced" man, on the very land where I was born, in a stateless man because my nation state does not acknowledge any citizenship they only offer "residence" which is a temporary status, I can not use my given name from birth because that name and birthdate correspond to the registration of a government organization, as Jesus said "that is what you call me" I can't accept the assigned default status of less than human, if I am to identify myself or be forced to allow others to define me it will become a matter of life and death.

  • @jeffrenmerino5781
    @jeffrenmerino5781 Před 4 lety +16

    11:42

    • @lanasiaaaa
      @lanasiaaaa Před 3 lety

      thank you!!! so much

    • @CammieTV3
      @CammieTV3 Před 3 lety

      LaNasia's World oop- not me finding you in the comments😂💀

  • @freakyfables1567
    @freakyfables1567 Před rokem +1

    I want an identity!

  • @jaquansolomon
    @jaquansolomon Před rokem +2

    What is he talking about??

  • @spiltbeans8104
    @spiltbeans8104 Před 4 lety +8

    ted talks are the only videos that have so many views but so little comments lol

    • @user-dh6it7iu1j
      @user-dh6it7iu1j Před 3 lety +1

      many schools show them but no one actually listens

  • @hektik5900
    @hektik5900 Před rokem +2

    best part 12:15

  • @xavierymarigon8923
    @xavierymarigon8923 Před rokem +2

    who am I?

  • @CodsK9
    @CodsK9 Před 6 lety +2

    5th comment wooooo woooooooo

  • @jeffrenmerino5781
    @jeffrenmerino5781 Před 4 lety +2

    1:38

  • @brendenpack7045
    @brendenpack7045 Před 7 lety +14

    My nama jeff

  • @BigtimeSauce
    @BigtimeSauce Před 3 lety +2

    what

  • @leopemberton5439
    @leopemberton5439 Před 4 měsíci

    Created by the mind /ego

  • @pythonanywhere3392
    @pythonanywhere3392 Před 3 lety +1

    What if people like Adolf "you know who" decided they wouldn't go into politics and instead they chose to focus on art?
    Even though they'd be laughed at and nobody would take them seriously, they might help the world become a lot more peaceful.
    And why do you think of people like me who have a very peculiar set of beliefs as antithetical to a faux reality (truthful but not convenient) are ridiculed when we focus on very artistic measures such as religion or expressive Christianity instead of real politics?
    Do they not know the alternative for people like me?
    It's not that I'd be automatically somebody like Adolf if I started legitimately getting involved in politics, but by my being involved I canker and rust the entire establishment because my voice is so strong and the truth is always inconvenient.
    I'd rather be entirely distanced from politics and let the hippies take control, because my beliefs in Greco-Roman law and order would cause a lot of problems in a society that doesn't want either.
    It's better to erase myself and my beliefs from the landscape, because untold terror would abound due to misunderstanding and human error even though my beliefs have truth.
    I'd live like Mark Twain any day before I'd be in politics. Nobody can even remember the world leaders, problems, or political figures when Samuel Clemens existed off the top of their head, but we all know who Mark Twain is.
    I find that fascinating.

    • @williamwayne8345
      @williamwayne8345 Před 2 lety

      If you have the truth do not back away,
      Speak it loud like thunder!

  • @zerodeconduite804
    @zerodeconduite804 Před 4 lety +5

    His opening was horrible.

  • @wisteria_yuu
    @wisteria_yuu Před rokem +1

    So, many people come here for homework huh XD

  • @user-rr1ux4bi8p
    @user-rr1ux4bi8p Před 9 měsíci +2

    bruh, homework sux

  • @kingjeremysircornwell7847

    Created, that's why there is tribalism. To find identity. I have always had identity, that is why I do not partake/practice tribalism.

  • @user-bl2nb5vc8n
    @user-bl2nb5vc8n Před 3 lety

    æ

  • @Itsslandon1
    @Itsslandon1 Před 29 dny

    I hate homework

  • @aksil.abelgharbi6497
    @aksil.abelgharbi6497 Před 4 lety +3

    Yes, right; He definitely saved that parrot. When the British, they really mean English when they say British, Pan-English agendas, we marched to civilize and save the people; steal lands and murder the 'savages'. He could have just said he trapped it and stole it...

  • @hektik5900
    @hektik5900 Před rokem +1

    NPCs in the comments

  • @PkmnmasterBP
    @PkmnmasterBP Před 4 lety +11

    HE SMACKS HIS LIPS SOOOOO MUCH I HATE IT

  • @nils_ytcapra4187
    @nils_ytcapra4187 Před rokem +1

    So nah scheisse

  • @user-ry2qs7xf9k
    @user-ry2qs7xf9k Před rokem +1

    *God does exist.*

  • @JesusChristsaves777
    @JesusChristsaves777 Před rokem +5

    True identity is found in God alone, in Christ as God made us at His image. Draw close to Christ and He will let Himself be found by you. No one can inherit the Kingdom of God unless being born again, of water and the Holy Spirit. (John chapter 3, Acts 2:38) many blessings

  • @MrJoebrada
    @MrJoebrada Před 4 lety

    WE DO NOT COMPLY !! WE LOVE FREEDOM. NOT ENSLAVEMENT !!!! if you accept tech ID, then you given % of your privileged to poor countries that corporations in that country to become more POWERFUL and bring themselves in your turf soil!!!!!!!! How would you feel that you are not chipped and you partner is. THEY ALREADY KNOW YOUR HABITS WHEN YOU ARE AROUND YOUR PARTNER. You say I can opt out with a phone, but not with a chip.... well as long as someone near you has a chip on, your phone can send a RFID signal back to the chip and back... BS ...DO NOT LET THIS VAMPIRES DO IT TO YOU

    • @David-ew4uy
      @David-ew4uy Před 4 lety +1

      @Mr Joebrada Please, I know of this vaguely. Do you know where I can learn more about the link between chipping and the connection to be made with technology. If this is safe, that is. Thank you! If not, then, please take care, I know such information is not allowed to exist freely for long, not to be found as easily.

  • @jeffrenmerino5781
    @jeffrenmerino5781 Před 4 lety +4

    11:38