WEBVTT 00:00:08.141 --> 00:00:11.077 KAREN: So what does it mean to be truly authentic, 00:00:11.077 --> 00:00:14.481 and how does this idea of authenticity impact 00:00:14.481 --> 00:00:17.984 what it means to be whole or personhood? 00:00:17.984 --> 00:00:20.653 And so, like, looking at yourself, how do you identify, 00:00:20.653 --> 00:00:23.590 and how is your identity your chosen identity 00:00:23.590 --> 00:00:28.328 based on your conceptualization of what it means 00:00:28.328 --> 00:00:30.430 to be authentically something? 00:00:30.430 --> 00:00:33.466 Does, like, how you define authenticity 00:00:33.466 --> 00:00:36.870 and your relationship to authenticity impact how 00:00:36.870 --> 00:00:38.872 you choose to identify? 00:00:38.872 --> 00:00:41.341 RACHEL: And sort of as an extension of this-- and these kind of 00:00:41.341 --> 00:00:41.841 go together. 00:00:41.841 --> 00:00:44.310 That's why we're saying them together. 00:00:44.310 --> 00:00:46.980 Do the languages, or does the language that you speak, 00:00:46.980 --> 00:00:49.649 or that your ancestors spoke affect 00:00:49.649 --> 00:00:52.152 this concept of authenticity? 00:00:52.152 --> 00:00:56.156 So if you're the son of someone whose parents spoke a language, 00:00:56.156 --> 00:00:58.291 but you don't speak it, do you feel less authentic, 00:00:58.291 --> 00:01:01.728 or does it make you feel more authentic in some manner? 00:01:01.728 --> 00:01:03.930 Or are there linguistic discourses of power 00:01:03.930 --> 00:01:05.999 that affect how you perceive the roles 00:01:05.999 --> 00:01:08.435 that the languages that you speak or that of your ancestors 00:01:08.435 --> 00:01:12.872 spoke affect your choice of identity-- 00:01:12.872 --> 00:01:18.078 and how authenticity of my language plays a role in it? 00:01:18.078 --> 00:01:20.080 KAREN: Should we present the second question? 00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:22.115 MICHEL DEGRAFF: I think we should start answering, right? 00:01:22.115 --> 00:01:23.015 So thank you so much. 00:01:35.660 --> 00:01:37.759 AUDIENCE: I guess I don't mind answering first. 00:01:37.764 --> 00:01:39.399 So I guess the first thing-- 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:49.440 so I'll answer one and two, but I'll start with two, 00:01:49.442 --> 00:01:51.644 because this is something that I always think about-- 00:01:51.644 --> 00:01:56.583 is the fact that I don't speak Spanish makes me less authentic 00:01:56.583 --> 00:01:59.419 in whatever Hispanic or Mexican identity I have, 00:01:59.419 --> 00:02:01.788 because I'm not able-- 00:02:01.788 --> 00:02:03.823 I feel like I wasn't allowed to identify 00:02:03.823 --> 00:02:05.792 with the Hispanic or Mexican community, 00:02:05.792 --> 00:02:07.127 because I didn't speak Spanish. 00:02:07.127 --> 00:02:09.062 And like, you know, growing up, I 00:02:09.062 --> 00:02:10.597 guess it was different for my mother. 00:02:10.597 --> 00:02:14.267 It didn't matter to her, and I guess at that timeframe, 00:02:14.267 --> 00:02:17.904 you know, whatever the population-- like, 00:02:17.904 --> 00:02:21.941 Spanish is becoming a very profound language in the US, 00:02:21.941 --> 00:02:25.578 and so, like, maybe during my mother's time 00:02:25.578 --> 00:02:27.680 there weren't a whole lot of Spanish speakers, so, 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:29.082 like, for her, it didn't matter. 00:02:29.082 --> 00:02:30.583 And like, my grandmother growing up, 00:02:30.583 --> 00:02:32.252 it was, like, not OK for her to speak, 00:02:32.252 --> 00:02:35.321 and so I feel like it's different for my mother 00:02:35.321 --> 00:02:37.724 because she doesn't care. 00:02:37.724 --> 00:02:39.792 Honestly, I don't know how I should ask my mom how 00:02:39.792 --> 00:02:42.629 she identifies with herself, but it's very different 00:02:42.629 --> 00:02:45.265 because, for me, I do feel like that was important whereas it 00:02:45.265 --> 00:02:46.399 wasn't important for her. 00:02:46.399 --> 00:02:49.769 And I still don't feel authentic in my Hispanic or Mexican 00:02:49.769 --> 00:02:52.505 identity, because I don't speak the language-- 00:02:52.505 --> 00:02:55.742 and that maybe, in some ways, speaking the language 00:02:55.742 --> 00:02:57.510 would allow me to identify more with, 00:02:57.510 --> 00:03:02.649 like, the culture, because I feel like it's important. 00:03:02.649 --> 00:03:06.186 And then I guess, overall, authentic, 00:03:06.186 --> 00:03:08.888 I honestly hate thinking of it like that, 00:03:08.888 --> 00:03:11.791 because I am so un-authentic then, 00:03:11.791 --> 00:03:15.562 because I'm African-American, I'm white, and I'm Hispanic, 00:03:15.562 --> 00:03:20.433 and nobody considers me authentic because it's like, 00:03:20.433 --> 00:03:23.369 how can you be authentic if being-- 00:03:23.369 --> 00:03:25.171 I feel like being authentic, in this way, 00:03:25.171 --> 00:03:27.040 means, like, having to identify specifically 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:31.010 with one or another, and you can't authentically be all-- 00:03:31.010 --> 00:03:32.312 you can't be more than one. 00:03:32.312 --> 00:03:35.081 I don't know if that makes sense. 00:03:35.081 --> 00:03:37.183 And I guess for me, it's just like my identity, 00:03:37.183 --> 00:03:41.921 I just have to pick and choose what I liked, what was OK, 00:03:41.921 --> 00:03:43.555 and some of it has been imposed on me. 00:03:43.555 --> 00:03:47.327 There are aspects of my identity that I didn't get to choose 00:03:47.327 --> 00:03:50.763 and that I'm trying to change, because like now feeling woke, 00:03:50.763 --> 00:03:54.033 I guess, and learning about different aspects of my culture 00:03:54.033 --> 00:03:58.805 and history regarding whatever it may be, 00:03:58.805 --> 00:04:01.941 I feel like I'm trying to change aspects of my identity 00:04:01.941 --> 00:04:04.477 that were not-- 00:04:04.477 --> 00:04:06.980 yeah, I hope those answered your questions. 00:04:06.980 --> 00:04:10.016 I got really flustered, because there's this camera over here. 00:04:10.016 --> 00:04:13.052 Normally, it wouldn't matter, but yeah-- 00:04:13.052 --> 00:04:14.587 so I hope that answers your question. 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:20.190 MICHEL DEGRAFF: So let me make a note-- let me make a note here, 00:04:20.192 --> 00:04:22.060 because I think you've mentioned the camera. 00:04:22.060 --> 00:04:23.930 But this is not live, which means that-- 00:04:23.930 --> 00:04:25.098 AUDIENCE: It doesn't matter. 00:04:25.098 --> 00:04:26.466 MICHEL DEGRAFF: No, with whatever 00:04:26.466 --> 00:04:29.636 you decide that you don't want to be going to the billions 00:04:29.636 --> 00:04:31.070 will be moved, OK? 00:04:31.070 --> 00:04:32.438 AUDIENCE: No, I wouldn't do that. 00:04:32.438 --> 00:04:34.240 MICHEL DEGRAFF: OK, so I want you to feel totally comfortable 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:36.442 that if you say anything that you feel 00:04:36.442 --> 00:04:38.378 should stay in the class here-- 00:04:38.378 --> 00:04:39.979 I think it's OK. 00:04:39.979 --> 00:04:42.248 We'll just-- we'll just edit it and make sure that-- 00:04:42.248 --> 00:04:43.516 AUDIENCE: No, it's not that about. 00:04:43.516 --> 00:04:44.017 It's just-- 00:04:44.017 --> 00:04:45.351 AUDIENCE: Beyond having it, OK. 00:04:45.351 --> 00:04:46.853 AUDIENCE: It's the idea somebody out 00:04:46.853 --> 00:04:49.489 there would end up watching and listening to what I say. 00:04:49.489 --> 00:04:50.156 MICHEL DEGRAFF: But one thing that you 00:04:50.156 --> 00:04:51.057 have to think about, too-- 00:04:51.057 --> 00:04:52.859 I mean, which is actually key, so there 00:04:52.859 --> 00:04:56.996 are lots of other folks, you know, even younger than you. 00:04:56.996 --> 00:04:59.699 At least, you can step back, and as you've just 00:04:59.699 --> 00:05:02.302 said-- you said, OK, now I need to remove that 00:05:02.302 --> 00:05:03.036 from my identity. 00:05:03.036 --> 00:05:04.170 I need to make this choice. 00:05:04.170 --> 00:05:07.440 I need to think about what was imposed to myself. 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:10.977 We see that-- how many people don't have this capacity 00:05:10.977 --> 00:05:14.247 to actually step back and self analyze the way you just did, 00:05:14.247 --> 00:05:15.048 you see? 00:05:15.048 --> 00:05:17.082 AUDIENCE: I like to analyze myself. 00:05:17.082 --> 00:05:19.419 MICHEL DEGRAFF: Yeah, but that's something 00:05:19.419 --> 00:05:21.154 that you're sharing with other people that 00:05:21.154 --> 00:05:25.158 might help them a lot, you know, because it frees you 00:05:25.158 --> 00:05:27.226 to be able to do that, right? 00:05:27.226 --> 00:05:28.261 AUDIENCE: Sometimes. 00:05:28.261 --> 00:05:29.829 MICHEL DEGRAFF: It's a path to freedom in a way-- 00:05:29.829 --> 00:05:30.797 self-liberation, yeah. 00:05:30.797 --> 00:05:35.468 AUDIENCE: I think I also feel constraining at the same time, 00:05:35.468 --> 00:05:38.805 because it's so hard to-- 00:05:38.805 --> 00:05:40.773 because I think like some of the things-- like, 00:05:40.773 --> 00:05:44.711 some of these things are so ingrained into society 00:05:44.711 --> 00:05:46.646 and for different people-- 00:05:46.646 --> 00:05:48.481 like, how you see yourself in the world. 00:05:48.481 --> 00:05:52.485 And it's really hard to change perception. 00:05:52.485 --> 00:05:55.221 For instance, I have talked about this, but like, 00:05:55.221 --> 00:05:56.956 hair, African-American hair, and trying 00:05:56.956 --> 00:05:59.859 to change my perception of African-American hair 00:05:59.859 --> 00:06:03.496 relates in some ways to changing perceptions of my own identity 00:06:03.496 --> 00:06:08.000 because they're related, if that makes sense? 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:09.569 Yeah, other people can-- 00:06:12.870 --> 00:06:15.840 AUDIENCE: I guess I don't know. 00:06:15.842 --> 00:06:19.912 I think it's, like, kind of unfair not for you guys 00:06:19.912 --> 00:06:23.916 because we all do it, but it's unfair to to use the word 00:06:23.916 --> 00:06:27.787 authentic when referring to something like identity, 00:06:27.787 --> 00:06:31.758 or culture, or a group of people, because it's like-- 00:06:31.758 --> 00:06:33.426 I mean, I don't think it was a word that 00:06:33.426 --> 00:06:37.029 was intended for a person. 00:06:37.029 --> 00:06:40.533 It's very much like one of those adjectives that's 00:06:40.533 --> 00:06:42.969 for inanimate objects, you know? 00:06:42.969 --> 00:06:45.138 It's like for things that don't have-- 00:06:45.138 --> 00:06:45.772 AUDIENCE: Gold. 00:06:45.772 --> 00:06:48.107 AUDIENCE: Yeah like gold, like authentic, like something 00:06:48.107 --> 00:06:49.542 that you can define. 00:06:49.542 --> 00:06:51.544 Like, OK, if something's authentically gold, 00:06:51.544 --> 00:06:53.579 that means it's 100% gold. 00:06:53.579 --> 00:06:57.016 But you can't put bounds on things 00:06:57.016 --> 00:07:01.120 like people, and cultures, and identities to the point 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:03.122 where you have a concrete definition, 00:07:03.122 --> 00:07:07.693 because no person's ever going to get that perfect definition. 00:07:07.693 --> 00:07:10.029 MICHEL DEGRAFF: But it has always been the tendency 00:07:10.029 --> 00:07:14.500 to try to quantize these-- 00:07:14.500 --> 00:07:16.269 so you mentioned gold, right. 00:07:16.269 --> 00:07:20.273 So in the history of Haiti, there was this famous French-- 00:07:20.273 --> 00:07:21.874 she was Creole French, meaning that she 00:07:21.874 --> 00:07:24.277 was of French ancestry, but he was born in the Caribbean. 00:07:24.277 --> 00:07:28.881 His name was [INAUDIBLE],, and he added one chapter where he 00:07:28.881 --> 00:07:30.950 created this calculus of-- 00:07:30.950 --> 00:07:36.422 he could compute 128 parts of black versus white. 00:07:36.422 --> 00:07:40.092 So he had this calculus of if you half black, half white, 00:07:40.092 --> 00:07:41.194 then you're mulatto. 00:07:41.194 --> 00:07:45.231 If you're quarter black with three quarters white, 00:07:45.231 --> 00:07:46.599 then you're Quadroon. 00:07:46.599 --> 00:07:47.800 And he had terms. 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:50.603 He had adjectives-- talking about adjectives-- 00:07:50.603 --> 00:07:53.139 he had adjectivves for each of these categories, 00:07:53.139 --> 00:07:55.241 but how do you compute that? 00:07:55.241 --> 00:08:01.547 How can you look at someone and decide that they are 128 black 00:08:01.547 --> 00:08:03.449 versus the rest, white? 00:08:03.449 --> 00:08:05.952 But there was this strong belief somebody 00:08:05.952 --> 00:08:07.887 that you could do that, and that actually 00:08:07.887 --> 00:08:10.990 each of these partitions would define 00:08:10.990 --> 00:08:13.392 [INAUDIBLE] biological reasons. 00:08:13.392 --> 00:08:15.161 But if you were half black, half white, 00:08:15.161 --> 00:08:16.229 you would behave like this, or you 00:08:16.229 --> 00:08:18.197 would have physical properties from these lines. 00:08:18.197 --> 00:08:20.366 But if you were one quarter white and three quarters black, 00:08:20.366 --> 00:08:22.835 then you could predict what your behavior and your physique 00:08:22.835 --> 00:08:24.303 would actually look like. 00:08:24.303 --> 00:08:31.043 Think of Jim Crow in the US, so one drop of black blood-- 00:08:31.043 --> 00:08:37.850 one drop of black blood would make you non-white, right? 00:08:37.850 --> 00:08:40.820 But it's good to have people to think of it in these terms 00:08:40.820 --> 00:08:44.423 and try to remove ourself from this cognition. 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.160 AUDIENCE: So I guess what I'm thinking about is-- 00:08:49.161 --> 00:08:51.797 I remember you told this story early in the semester about 00:08:51.797 --> 00:08:54.200 how there are these documentarians from New 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:55.968 York who came to do interviews with you-- 00:08:55.968 --> 00:08:56.502 MICHEL DEGRAFF: That's right. 00:08:56.502 --> 00:08:57.703 I was thinking of that, yeah. 00:08:57.703 --> 00:09:00.273 AUDIENCE: --and they felt bad because the idea 00:09:00.273 --> 00:09:03.209 that, like, they were less Haitian for not 00:09:03.209 --> 00:09:04.210 speaking Haitian creole. 00:09:04.210 --> 00:09:07.980 So I agree that the idea of authenticity 00:09:07.980 --> 00:09:10.049 implies that there is this paradigm-like way 00:09:10.049 --> 00:09:12.652 to be an identity, but so I don't know. 00:09:12.652 --> 00:09:15.221 Like, it's not clear to me-- 00:09:15.221 --> 00:09:18.858 it seems possible that, like, the paradigm Haitian does speak 00:09:18.858 --> 00:09:21.027 Creole, though I don't know. 00:09:21.027 --> 00:09:22.862 I wonder about that. 00:09:22.862 --> 00:09:26.832 AUDIENCE: I also feel like that I agree with that statement. 00:09:26.832 --> 00:09:29.302 However I feel that maybe in the future 00:09:29.302 --> 00:09:35.007 it won't be a possible paradigm just because of migration 00:09:35.007 --> 00:09:40.680 and the fact that there can be a Haitian who is, like, 00:09:40.680 --> 00:09:43.683 three generations away from that parent that was Haitian, 00:09:43.683 --> 00:09:46.485 and they're still allowed to say that they're Haitian. 00:09:46.485 --> 00:09:47.553 They don't speak Creole. 00:09:47.553 --> 00:09:52.258 They may be, I don't know, have whatever you can 00:09:52.258 --> 00:09:54.360 define as the paradigm Haitian. 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:57.396 So I guess for now that might be a true statement 00:09:57.396 --> 00:09:59.932 to a certain extent, but I don't think that-- 00:09:59.932 --> 00:10:02.268 but I think that that was the point of the concept of us 00:10:02.268 --> 00:10:05.471 and authenticity. 00:10:05.471 --> 00:10:11.978 MICHEL DEGRAFF: And we still got to mention Achebe and Wachongo, 00:10:11.978 --> 00:10:15.181 right, because they had the whole debate about what's 00:10:15.181 --> 00:10:18.017 authentic African rights, right? 00:10:18.017 --> 00:10:20.019 And that was actually part of bigger constraints 00:10:20.019 --> 00:10:23.589 where they were debating what makes them authentic. 00:10:23.589 --> 00:10:26.192 AUDIENCE: Yeah. but the problem is like the line drawing. 00:10:26.192 --> 00:10:29.595 Like, oh, you're not a real Haitian. 00:10:29.595 --> 00:10:32.431 MICHEL DEGRAFF: Yeah, yeah. 00:10:32.431 --> 00:10:35.301 AUDIENCE: I guess one thing I could add here 00:10:35.301 --> 00:10:40.239 is like, a lot of your examples were, like, mixing authenticity 00:10:40.239 --> 00:10:42.742 for, like, different cultures and that 00:10:42.742 --> 00:10:43.976 not being authentic any more. 00:10:43.976 --> 00:10:46.178 But one thing I really liked that you guys brought up 00:10:46.178 --> 00:10:48.347 was the idea of, like, tracks-- 00:10:48.347 --> 00:10:50.616 and especially what he said about India, 00:10:50.616 --> 00:10:52.785 where when you think of India, there's 00:10:52.785 --> 00:10:55.254 this one thing you can think of, whether it's like the food 00:10:55.254 --> 00:10:56.088 or like the culture. 00:10:56.088 --> 00:10:58.724 And that's like very north Indian. 00:10:58.724 --> 00:11:03.396 Like, I come from south India, and if I like-- as I came here, 00:11:03.396 --> 00:11:05.431 I chose to be more Indian. 00:11:05.431 --> 00:11:07.867 Like, I got more involved on clubs on campus and stuff 00:11:07.867 --> 00:11:09.802 like that, but like-- 00:11:09.802 --> 00:11:11.871 and the Indian I'm becoming is very 00:11:11.871 --> 00:11:14.240 different than my actual heritage. 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:15.708 MICHEL DEGRAFF: Yeah-- 00:11:15.708 --> 00:11:16.575 AUDIENCE: Yeah. 00:11:16.575 --> 00:11:19.345 So I have all these connections on like cultures 00:11:19.345 --> 00:11:22.782 that I think I'm getting, but it's actually not 00:11:22.782 --> 00:11:24.984 really connected to my family at all. 00:11:24.984 --> 00:11:27.653 And I guess that's partially because I don't speak 00:11:27.653 --> 00:11:30.890 the language that they have, so none of my culture 00:11:30.890 --> 00:11:34.326 came from, like, my family really. 00:11:34.326 --> 00:11:39.198 But also by not speaking that language, like, everything 00:11:39.198 --> 00:11:41.233 about my culture from home whether it's 00:11:41.233 --> 00:11:43.636 religion or anything like that, it's 00:11:43.636 --> 00:11:44.904 kind of very separated from me. 00:11:44.904 --> 00:11:47.173 So I guess I kind of understand it, 00:11:47.173 --> 00:11:49.442 but I don't really understand the roots of most of it. 00:11:49.442 --> 00:11:52.111 Whereas everything here that I'm leaning, I'm like, oh, OK. 00:11:52.111 --> 00:11:54.480 Like, this makes sense, and this is what everyone does. 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:57.283 I mean, to be like an Indian in America. 00:11:57.283 --> 00:11:58.350 MICHEL DEGRAFF: OK. 00:11:58.350 --> 00:12:00.319 So I think that that goes back to your question, 00:12:00.319 --> 00:12:02.722 because if you think of who is now 00:12:02.722 --> 00:12:07.827 one of the best known Haitian writers, Edwidge Danticat, 00:12:07.827 --> 00:12:10.262 that we've read in this class, and in which-- 00:12:10.262 --> 00:12:13.199 OK, she was in Haiti until age 12, and then at age 12, 00:12:13.199 --> 00:12:16.402 she came to Brooklyn, New York, and now she's 00:12:16.402 --> 00:12:17.803 one of the best Haitian writers. 00:12:17.803 --> 00:12:20.806 And she sees herself as Haitian, you see? 00:12:20.806 --> 00:12:23.943 And she speaks Creole, but she doesn't write in Creole. 00:12:23.943 --> 00:12:26.645 All of the text that she has become famous for, 00:12:26.645 --> 00:12:28.514 they are English texts. 00:12:28.514 --> 00:12:30.216 But for me, when I read Edwidge Danticat, 00:12:30.216 --> 00:12:33.319 as we did here in the class, I hear Haiti, 00:12:33.319 --> 00:12:35.521 I see Haiti, I feel Haiti, because she's 00:12:35.521 --> 00:12:38.924 managed to write as a Haitian although she 00:12:38.924 --> 00:12:40.793 didn't speak Creole. 00:12:40.793 --> 00:12:46.365 And as she does, she's also become a very powerful woman. 00:12:46.365 --> 00:12:49.535 Another case is Wyclef Jean, right? 00:12:49.535 --> 00:12:52.505 You guys know this hip hop artist, Wyclef? 00:12:52.505 --> 00:12:54.907 So Wyclef has done so much for Haiti. 00:12:54.907 --> 00:13:00.946 In fact, at some point, even was to be Haitian president, 00:13:00.946 --> 00:13:01.981 and he was-- 00:13:01.981 --> 00:13:03.682 actually, that's a good story, because he 00:13:03.682 --> 00:13:06.252 was excluded from running because he was not 00:13:06.252 --> 00:13:07.386 Haitian enough legally. 00:13:07.386 --> 00:13:09.121 He had spent too much time out of Haiti. 00:13:09.121 --> 00:13:13.793 But yet, he's one of the best known Haitians in the world 00:13:13.793 --> 00:13:17.429 today, Wyclef Jean, because a major hip hop artist, 00:13:17.429 --> 00:13:19.932 and he sings mostly in English, but he also 00:13:19.932 --> 00:13:22.434 has some songs in Creole actually to remind people 00:13:22.434 --> 00:13:23.569 that he is Haitian. 00:13:23.569 --> 00:13:25.805 And always, when he sings-- when he goes to a concert, 00:13:25.805 --> 00:13:28.674 he wrap himself up with the Haitian flag, 00:13:28.674 --> 00:13:34.013 so he's very pro-Haitian without having the full inventory 00:13:34.013 --> 00:13:36.248 of what defines Haitianes 00:13:36.248 --> 00:13:38.784 So I think I like watching this person show's-- the idea that 00:13:38.784 --> 00:13:42.254 you can create your own identity even in America, 00:13:42.254 --> 00:13:44.123 and that's what an identity should do for it. 00:13:44.123 --> 00:13:45.324 It should be an asset. 00:13:45.324 --> 00:13:48.360 It should be a tool for us [INAUDIBLE] the world, not 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:49.962 something that we need to hold as fact. 00:13:49.962 --> 00:13:51.664 And if you look at the literature on stereotype 00:13:51.664 --> 00:13:53.399 threat, that's the way it was actually, 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:56.502 so people were being hindered in their performance because 00:13:56.502 --> 00:13:57.536 of identity. 00:13:57.536 --> 00:14:00.306 It was because of them being put in a box because of that. 00:14:00.306 --> 00:14:02.708 You see what you guys all think that, well, we can use it 00:14:02.708 --> 00:14:05.544 in a way, like what you said, it would me to create my own 00:14:05.544 --> 00:14:07.980 and be powerful with it and be happy with it. 00:14:07.980 --> 00:14:10.816 You see, now, it's other people who put me in the box. 00:14:10.816 --> 00:14:16.055 And I think that's what we should think about when people 00:14:16.055 --> 00:14:17.790 are imposing on us to actually described 00:14:17.790 --> 00:14:21.026 as moving between imposed identities 00:14:21.026 --> 00:14:23.762 that they want to pull yourself away from, 00:14:23.762 --> 00:14:26.131 and eventually if you do that, well, you become 00:14:26.131 --> 00:14:28.000 happier, right, hopefully? 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:29.969 AUDIENCE: Hopefully.