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What Make you Special?

As I write this after I watched the video, honestly I still don’t know what’s make me special, or what the different I have from others. But I think, the least that makes me different from others maybe how my parents strictly train me to be an independent girl yet brave from I was child, so I became independent woman today.

I remember when my brother was born on 2003, my parents indirectly asked me to take myself as my own responsibility, because the were focused on my newborn brother and their work-life. They train me simply how to clean up my room, or sometimes clean up the house. Then they send me to several courses like Sempoa Course and English Course even I still 8 years old, again, they asked me to be brave, because I was the youngest then. I went to English Course as the youngest with my friends were 3-4 years above me which their capability of learning English was so much better than me. Even my English not even better after I joined the class, but I realized that I learned how to socialize and interact with new people at my age then, how I can struggling myself to follow the class with native English teacher and be friends with people that didn’t came as the same background as me.

Then when I was in Junior High School, my parents offer me to move to others school, then I moved to a new school when I was in the second grade of Junior High School. On my school then, some of students underestimated me just because I was a new student there, all I did sometimes were wrong. I realized that the ambitious me I have now were started there, when I thought that I should enter Senior High School that no one from that mean girls can enter the school, then I made it!

But as I entered Senior High School I was not well prepared for my college life or maybe clueless, so after I survived Senior High School, I didn’t have clearly what I want for my long run, I only studied for passed SBMPTN then, and the major that I took still dominated with science. End up I studied Public Administration with only Diploma Degree. As a person which trained to take my own responsibility, before I graduated I started to look up what job that matters, or any job that could help me to bought gifts for my friends as the reward of graduation. I’ve been an SPG that time right one month before I entered my final assessment. Then I had enough money to bought all my friends gift without asking to my parents. After I graduated, I really passionate to find what kind of job that would help me to increasing my soft skill so I could be experienced even it should be started from very bottom. Then I start to worked at Grab not even 1 month after I graduated. I began and grew my career here from the bottom till now are because of the spirit and what my parents teach me, to be responsible to all that I had, survived everything so I can be curious everyday about what I’m going to do, and make everything that I want happen. So, I thought it’s all that makes me special.

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Irvan Zaeni Rahman

I loved the talk, it's such an important one. Everybody should learn to be more open, respectful, tolerant and understanding. It requires compassion and empathy. Learn before it's too late.

14.16 this moment of the video broke my heart , i felt so happy after she said her sister back to walk again .. both of these girls are real fighters . they are a good example to face the life with its hard and people who don't have any feeling.

When she talked about Muslim girl and her reaction when met her . I felt sad because many people don't accept the muslim girl .  It is true that She changed her thinking about that girl but many people don't change their thinking about  us

She is such a good speaker, I learnt a lot from her speak. I found many small group or The Other said the speaker had same problem, I wish they can through this. Thank you to remind us that being different is an advantage and we have to proud of that, so we can stand out and be successful person.

What a powerful talk. She is very clear in her thoughts so the words are coming out like a cascade. I salute this brave lady and she is an inspiration and example to others. Certainly beauty is an added value to a speaker to easily attract the croud and she has got it.

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Boby Erianto - What Make You Special

Mariana atencio was talking about what make you special, starting with the little mariana discussion, where she lived in a part of venezuela and at the time her parents took mariana and her sister to a place where they never imagined it would be, what was in their mind was an interesting summer place like where Mickey Mouse came from, but it turns out their parents were taking her to a place in Minnesota.
At the site mariana tried to understand how the American way of life was possible, even though mariana was not fluent in English at the time.
Well, in high school... mariana's parents sent mariana to school in a region called Connecticut.
It was at this high school that mariana learned something she had never had before.
Just like a high school student at the time, mariana wanted to be somebody popular. But the desire was hampered because mariana had to room with a Muslim named Fatima. Mariana's view of Fatima was then that Fatima was not a special person, like the way she was always dressed.
After much of mariana's nature, mariana began to realize the difference, how to understand others from a different side, and how important it was to put herself in the other person's place.

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Dzulfikar Luthfi Ramdhani.

She is a journalist that tell her struggle life story. When she was 7, her dad bring his kids (she and her lil sister) from Venezuela to US for study at summer camp. She felt like "ilegal alien" when she got "weird" treatment from her classmates, but she think that they just try to understand her culture. Her lil sister had a same treatment that make her cry, so she have to be the one who should take care of her lil sister with put a brave face and protect her lil sister. Time flies and she getting old, when she was a teenager, she moved to high school with imagined that high school life will be cool. When she come to her room for the first time, surprisingly she found her roommates was muslim girl with hijab named Fatima, Fatima came from Bahrain, far from what she imagined before. Fatima labeled different from others. Differences were just their way of being different, made Fatima moved to "special" class separated from her classmates. Meanwhile, the journalist continue her story, prom was coming, on that event, students have to present their talent to others. She realize that she has no special talent, so she initiate to take her boombox and dancing in from of others, surprisingly there is so many students that wanted to join to her club to learn dancing. She realized something, she learn that dance from Fatima, called belly dance, it is Bahrain's dance. She should thanks to Fatima and apologizing as well to her.
The point of the story is, dont ever treat different people!

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Aristyo

A jurnalist Mariana Atencio from Venezuela starting move to a summercamp in US she around Dee on 7 years old and she realized the she different with another children.
She was thinking she were going to get to summer camp in Miami, they were just trying to understand who we were, so she decided to put on a brave face and embrace everything i could about the american life.
She remember onbthe plane about the American high school experience with a locker, she meet Fatimah and Fatimas was not what she expected, she didn't realize that she was making her feel like the kids at summer camp made she feel, and it only last a few  month, she just label them differntly what she see, the differences are just their way of being different and we should look at those blind spot by starting to understand what makes them different and embrascing those traits only then you can start appreciating what makes other people special.
Some kids were going to recitr a theater monolouge and she remember thinking, she dont practice talents like these back home, the day of the talent show comes and i get up on stage with my little boom box.
If youre watching at home, taje a piece of paper and write down what makse you different. When she back home to Venezuela, she began to understand how these experiences changing Atencio

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TEDx Talks Chanel

What makes you special? | Mariana Atencio | TEDxUniversityofNevada

Mariana Atencio the NBC News journalist on TEDx Talks Chanel with the title “What makes you special?” tells us about her story with the aim that the audience will understands about differences. Her story starts when she moves from Venezuela to a summer camp in the United Stated at the age of 7 with her sister. She must take care of her sister because her sister always crying at the summer camp, so she decides to look brave in front of her sister. But after the summer camp ends Mariana felt so proud with herself, because she can get along with others and have a best friend, so it was a special reward for her.

She realized that “when you’re different you have to work at belonging”. Later on, when she was in high school her dad sent her to Wallingford, Connecticut, for the senior year of high school. On the plane she is daydreaming about the American high school experience with a locker, but in the real situation she had a roommate name is Fatima, and she was Muslim from Bahrain, and she was not what Mariana expected. And it only lasted a few months. After the prom night party ends, she remember about Fatima and telling us sometimes we just label them differently from what we see.  Differences are just their way of being different and we should look at those blind spots by starting to understand what makes them different and embracing those traits only then you can start appreciating what makes other people special. “So, what makes you special in your opinion? Because being different is an advantage that makes you special” she said.

Long story short she got bad news about her sister that had a car accident and made her must 15 surgeries and had to spend some time in a wheelchair, but she said the worst situation is the way people looked at her sister. But the sister was able to walk again and it’s so miracle and beyond expectations. Imagine yourself beyond what other people see, that is toughest task of all, but it also the most beautiful. In the end she wants to us realized that there are differences that really suck, so do not let them define you, lets be humanist before and after everything else.

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Aghia mulya.

A journalist who tells her story that makes she see people from a different perspective.  It started with her moving from Venezuela to a summer camp in the United States at the age of 7 and she realized that other children were different from her.  Likewise other children, they also saw her as different from them.  She moved in with her sister, and she had to take care of her sister because she was always crying at the summer camp.  She decided to put on a brave face and do what she could for her sister.  In the end she and the other kids got along and it was a precious gift for her.  Everyone wants to be appreciated and accepted, and it's not easy, it's a lot of work to do.  As a teenager she had a Muslim girl friend named Fatima, Fatima may feel she is disappointed to have a Muslim roommate from Bahrain.  And it only lasted a few months.  We just label them differently from what we see.  Differences are just their way of being different and we should look at those blind spots by starting to understand what makes them different and embracing those traits only then you can start appreciating what makes other people special.  What makes you special in your opinion?  Try writing it down or mentioning it, and you don't feel ashamed for it and you should be proud that it is your first step to appreciate your specialness.  She finally began to understand putting herself in someone else's shoes and making her a journalist.  One day she experienced a shock in her life that her sister had a car accident and made her have to undergo 15 surgeries and had to spend some time in a wheelchair and that wasn't the worst thing, the worst was the way people looked at her sister they only saw a poor child,  they couldn't see anything but that.  But a miracle happened that her sister was able to recover and was able to walk again beyond anyone's expectations.  Imagining yourself beyond what others see is the hardest task but also the most beautiful.  Let's celebrate the imperfections that make us special, no one can claim the word normal because we are all different and that is the beauty of uniqueness.

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Reviewer: Peter van de Ven

My job is to talk to people from all walks of life, all over the world.
Frоm a very young age, my parents wanted me to have a wider view of the world. Meanwhile, in my seven-year-old mind, I was thinking, we were going to get to summer camp in Miami. Frоm Caracas, he he sent us to Brainerd, Minnesota.
The Atencios are here from Venezuela. They were just trying to understand who we were, and make a correlation with the world they knew. So I decided to put on a brave face, and embrace everything I could about the American way of life. We later did what we called (the summer camp experiment), for eight years in different cities that many Americans haven't even heard of. Later on, when I was in high school, my dad expanded on his summer plan, and from Caracas he sent me to Wallingford, Connecticut, for the senior year of high school.

This time, I remember daydreaming on the plane about the American high school experience with a locker.
Her name was Fatima, and she was Muslim from Bahrain, and she was not what I expected. See, as a teenager, I wanted to fit in even more, I wanted to be popular, maybe have a boyfriend for prom, and I felt that Fatima just got in the way with her shyness and her strict dress code. I didn't realize that I was making her feel like the kids at summer camp made me feel. This was the high school equivalent of asking her, I was consumed by my own selfishness and unable to put myself in her shoes.
I had found that boyfriend for prom, made a group of friends, and practically forgotten about Fatima, until everybody signed on to participate in this talent show for charity. You needed to offer a talent for auction. Some kids were going to play the violin, others were going to recite a theater monologue, and I remember thinking, «We don't practice talents like these back home». The day of the talent show comes, and I get up on stage with my little boom box, and put it on the side and press (Play), and a song by my favorite emerging artist, Shakira, comes up.
If you're watching at home, take a piece of paper, and write down what makes you different. When I went back home to Venezuela, I began to understand how these experiences were changing me.

In the words of Voltaire
I covered the 2016 election for NBC News. I watched election results with undocumented families. Few thought of sharing that moment with people who weren't citizens, but actually stood the most to lose that night. When it became apparent that Donald Trump was winning, this eight-year-old girl named Angelina rushed up to me in tears.

This was the photo we took that night, forever ingrained in my heart. Here was this little girl who was around the same age I was when I went to camp in Brainerd. She walks home from school in fear, every day, that her mom can be taken away.

By giving camera time to her and families like hers, I tried to make people see them as human beings, and not simply (illegal aliens). To end, I want to tell you how I hit the worst bump in the road yet, one that shook me to my very core.

It was as if my heart stopped.
They say your life can change in a split second. My sister went from being my successful other half, only a year apart in age, to not being able to move her legs, sit up, or get dressed by herself. This wasn't like summer camp, where I could magically make it better. Throughout the course of two years, my sister underwent 15 surgeries, and she spent the most of that time in a wheelchair.

After fighting like a warrior, I can thankfully tell you that today my sister is walking, and has recovered beyond anyone's expectations. My sister's not better off because of what happened. You see, we all come to this world in a body. People with physical or neurological difficulties, environmentally impacted communities, immigrants, boys, girls, boys who want to dress as girls, girls with veils, women who have been sexually assaulted, athletes who bend their knee as a sign of protest, black, white, Asian, Native American, my sister, you, or me.
I have traveled the world, and talked to people from all walks of life.

You know what I've learned?
The single thing every one of us has in common is being human. So take a stand to defend your race, the human race.

What makes them different?
We are all quirky, and unique, and that is what makes us wonderfully human.