The beautiful paradoxes of a multicultural identity | Farhad Mohit
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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How do you find yourself when you belong to two seemingly opposing cultures? Embracing the paradoxes of dual identity, creative disruptor Farhad Mohit explores how being both Iranian and American allows him to navigate the tension between independence and interdependence, progress and presence — and to live fully in the here and now.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | You're listening to Ted Talks daily, |
| 0:11.0 | where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host, Elise Hugh. |
| 0:17.0 | Entrepreneur Farhad Moit, like so many of us in America, is multicultural. |
| 0:22.0 | And that reality means something to our identities and our |
| 0:26.3 | psyches. |
| 0:27.8 | He reflects on being both Iranian and American and ultimately the many dualities that make us human in his 2024 talk after the break. |
| 0:37.0 | These days we're surrounded by photo editing programs. Have you ever wondered what something or someone actually looks like under all the manipulation? |
| 0:51.0 | It's me, Elise, and this October I'm giving a TED Talk in Atlanta about finding true beauty in a sea of artificial images. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm so excited to share the stage with all the amazing speakers of the TED Next conference and I hope you'll come and |
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| 1:12.4 | And now our Ted Talk of the day. |
| 1:15.7 | I am so honored to be on stage representing Ted's growing recognition of the |
| 1:20.1 | importance of its immigrant diaspora community. |
| 1:23.6 | I am an Iranian-American, a kind of free-range Iranian. |
| 1:28.3 | Lucky to be here with all you and free to embrace |
| 1:31.0 | all my native cultures, |
| 1:32.7 | positive elements, the poetry, the music, philosophy, |
| 1:36.2 | and hospitality every day in ways |
| 1:38.8 | that many Iranians inside Iran cannot. |
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