Is your identity given or created? | Marcus Lyon | TEDxExeter
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.
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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
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I'll go with Jung: "I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become."
@HISWorldNeedsMen
5 ай бұрын
Yes!
“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
Жыл бұрын
Who is aw18#2?
@adzoyz3513
Жыл бұрын
But where did your beliefs come from?
@leopemberton5439
4 ай бұрын
Only problem is is beliefes are not facts And create wars and separation Beliefes can be useful but not to kill over
@smyrnasstory
4 ай бұрын
@@adzoyz3513 From “The New World Translation”
MIssed the point completely
@jeffrenmerino5781
4 жыл бұрын
1:38
@jurrevanschot
3 жыл бұрын
zeev aloni if you buy camera you get girlfriend, 4:15
bruh came here for homework actually missed the point
@acepilot9241
3 жыл бұрын
lul
@ethanyang6526
3 жыл бұрын
@@acepilot9241 wait a minute... xD
@codycorrigaljr9338
3 жыл бұрын
Me to
@lolli_popples
3 жыл бұрын
same lol
@pomeinwine
3 жыл бұрын
lmfao i am too
If we are a sum of the stories we have been told, then when we speak we are a multitude...
Great project for us from Brazil.
Have to do an assesment basing myself on this TED talk, very interesting topic.
I love it! Thanks for sharing.
SUCH A POWERFUL message! Saving this as one of my favourite TED-talks!
@sendevil8911
5 ай бұрын
Foul play
Everything that has affected you has affected your identity.
@user-zq3rf7fs5g
4 жыл бұрын
your past is not an absolute determinant of your present/future. Study resilience.
@Rhygenix
4 жыл бұрын
@@user-zq3rf7fs5g Experience by its very nature changes us
@user-zq3rf7fs5g
4 жыл бұрын
@@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
4 жыл бұрын
@@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?
Through Interacting different people who possess distinct cultures and values shape you
We can write fictions of ourselves because we are, after all, nothing - an empty palette.
@Rhygenix
4 жыл бұрын
Blank slate? Psychologically hardly at all.
@benjaminlquinlan8702
3 жыл бұрын
We are not a completely empty palette - pretty empty... but not totally.
Thanks again
"Camera is the tool to freeze the time"
Thanks For Sharing!
@v.dargain1678
4 жыл бұрын
Yes ! Identity is the foundation of the identity politician's political platform .
To anyone who missed the point: 11:52
@shxdo3712
Жыл бұрын
Thanks but to be more accurate it would ne 12:11
Missed the point
Nice one Marcus! Very well done, great message.
@SaneleMtshali
6 жыл бұрын
Interesting
Your reflection is part of your identity .
( REHAB TIME! ) PERSONAL IDENTITY DEPENDS ON CONSCIOUSNESS NOT ON SUBSTANCE. FACTS OVA FEELINGS!
We are sum of all our stories
Our identity at best human being.
Plz explain ur point... So then what is identity
A masterpiece if u ask me
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.
@graham0
5 жыл бұрын
r u on drugs or an edgy teen?
@user-oc1kn4ku8t
4 жыл бұрын
@@graham0 Or you just don't get his point. Poor you.
@Kabeyavictoria
4 жыл бұрын
Very deep what you said
@frownyclowny6955
Жыл бұрын
Metal, man
Come to Québec, Canada, the french nation to see his originality, like the originality of Brazil.
11:42
@lanasiaaaa
3 жыл бұрын
thank you!!! so much
@CammieTV3
3 жыл бұрын
LaNasia's World oop- not me finding you in the comments😂💀
What is he talking about??
go through my work on identity theory
I want an identity!
best part 12:15
ted talks are the only videos that have so many views but so little comments lol
@user-dh6it7iu1j
3 жыл бұрын
many schools show them but no one actually listens
who am I?
Created by the mind /ego
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
2 жыл бұрын
If you have the truth do not back away, Speak it loud like thunder!
His opening was horrible.
bruh, homework sux
Created, that's why there is tribalism. To find identity. I have always had identity, that is why I do not partake/practice tribalism.
@kingjeremysircornwell7847
5 жыл бұрын
KZread
@HISWorldNeedsMen
5 ай бұрын
Yep
1:38
So, many people come here for homework huh XD
My nama jeff
@evelynalabaster
3 жыл бұрын
LMFAO
what
5th comment wooooo woooooooo
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...
*God does exist.*
@HISWorldNeedsMen
5 ай бұрын
YEP!
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
@frownyclowny6955
Жыл бұрын
Your identity is based is god, not mine.
@HISWorldNeedsMen
5 ай бұрын
Yep! You nailed it
NPCs in the comments
I hate homework
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So nah scheisse
HE SMACKS HIS LIPS SOOOOO MUCH I HATE IT
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
4 жыл бұрын
@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.
11:38
@kennyliu6710
3 жыл бұрын
Is that the main point?