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Felix Oberholzer-Chi

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
257 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

So part of what I loved about the story is that it didn't come from Microsoft, that didn't come from Apple, that it came from another organization.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

Oh, no.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

I fear the worst.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

Wow.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

Okay.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

We'll post it on our website.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

No, we won't.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

I have a book that I just finished reading that I absolutely loved.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

It's by an author I had known before, Chimananda Ngozi Adichie, and maybe best known for Half of a Yellow Sun.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

But this is an older book of hers called Americana.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And it's the story of a Nigerian person who moves from Nigeria to the United States and

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And then experiences the United States as a black person in America, but also as a Nigerian in America.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And much of the story revolves around these two parts of her identity and how they relate to what happens in the United States at this period of time.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And what I find absolutely fascinating is as a person who moved from somewhere else to the United States myself, there was always this interesting contrast.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

Some of the things that you will experience in America today, you only experience when you're Black.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And it's really race.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

And for her and for the person in the book, everything is reflected as a function of her being Black.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

But I share many of the experiences that this person has, even though obviously race is not the underlying cause.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

So for instance, and I think everybody who moves to the US will notice this, you have to be really exuberant in your use of language.

TED Talks Daily
2022 - The Stories We Loved (and a Few Others) | After Hours

You have to say wonderful and spectacular and amazing all the time.