【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 amp。39。m from, that this even exists. You know, like even, I mean I love like the name, the TED. I mean I know itamp。39。s a real person and everything, but Iamp。39。m just saying that like, you know, I think itamp。39。s very cool how itamp。39。s also an acronym, you know, which is like, you know, is like very high concept and everything like that. I like that.
And actually, I can relate to the whole like acronym thing and everything. Because, actually, Iamp。39。m a sophomore at college right now. At my school actually I was part of cofounding an organization, which is like a leadership thing, you know, like you guys, you would really like it and everything. And the organization is called DA BOMB, And DA BOMB not like what you guys can build and everything Itamp。39。s like, DA BOMB, it means like Dominican itamp。39。s an acronym Dominican American Benevolent Organization for Mothers and Babies. So, I know, see, like the name is like a little bit long, but with the war on terror and everything, the Dean of Student Activities has asked us to stop saying DA BOMB and use the whole thing so nobody would get the wrong idea, whatever. So, basically like DA BOMB what Dominican American Benevolent Organization for Mothers and Babies does is, basically, we try to advocate for students who show a lot of academic promise and who also happen to be mothers like me. I am a working mother, and I also go to school fulltime. And, you know, itamp。39。s like itamp。39。s so important to have like role models out there. I mean, I know sometimes our lifestyles are very different, whatever.
　　But like even at my job like, I just got promoted. Right now itamp。39。s very exciting actually for mebecause Iamp。39。m the Junior Assistant to the Associate Director under the Senior Vice President for Business Development. Thatamp。39。s my new title. So, but I think whether you own your own pany or youamp。39。re just starting out like me, like something like this so vital for people to just continue expanding their minds and learning. And if everybody, like all people really had access to that, it would be a very different world out there, as I know you know. So, I think all people, we need that, but especially, I look at people like me, you know like, I mean, Latinos, weamp。39。re about to be the majority, in like two weeks. So, we deserve just as much to be part of the exchange of ideas as everybody else. So, Iamp。39。m very happy that youamp。39。re, you know, doing this kind of thing, making the talks available online. Thatamp。39。s very good. I love that. And I just I love you guys. I love TED. And if you donamp。39。t mind, privately now, in the future, Iamp。39。m going to think of TED as an acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Dominicans. Thank you very much. (Laughter) (Applause)
　　So, that was Noraida, and just like Loraine and everybody else youamp。39。re meeting today, these are folks who are based on real people from my real life. Friends, neighbors, family members. I e from a multicultural family. In fact, the older lady you just met, very, very loosely based on a great aunt on my motheramp。39。s side. Itamp。39。s a long story, believe me. But on top of my family background, my parents also sent me to United Nations school, where I encountered a plethora of new characters including Alexandre, my French teacher, okay.
　　Well, you know, it was beginner French, that I am taking with her, you know. And it was Madame Bousson, you know, she was very [French]. It was like, you know, she was there in the class, you know, she was kind of typically French. You know, she was was very chic, but she was very filled with ennui, you know. And she would be there, you know, kind of talking with the cl