Dear students 👋,
Find here the link to a TED Talk video that I want you to watch and later on comment.
Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/yvonne_aki_sawyerr_how_to_turn_your_dissatisfaction_into_action
Write your opinion and what teenagers of your age could do in order to ¨turn dissatisfaction into action¨.
I´ll be looking forward to reading your opinions.
Ms. Patty
I think specially now, with the current situation that we are living in our country, we can be all experiencing a lot of dissatisfaction on how the government have manage to confront how the pandemic have affected people, specially the ones in most vulnerable situations. But there are a lots of ways we can help our community, I think the most common and easy one is to donate to common pots. There are a lot of organizations that are receiving non perishable food, and need a lot of help. As teenagers we can motivate our families to help and also organize with our friends to make bigger donations.
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This can be related to our actual situation in the city. With the pandemic and the virus, and the mishandling of the situation from the government, most of the people in Santiago are in terrible condition, and they can’t get enough money to pay basic services, or have decent meal or decent home conditions, or even all three. That makes a feeling of dissatisfaction on the people that are having good conditions in the pandemic. As much in adults as in teenagers. Emphasizing on teenagers, the simplest thing that they can do is to share data from the organizations that ask for support to help. Also, they can talk with their parents to make a collection of basic resources, or a food drive, for the ones who don’t have anything. They can cook and made common pots to deliver them to close people in trouble.
ReplyDeleteThe important thing is to do something about what’s happening and take the risk of the actions. To believe that things can be better.
You are right, Ignacio! Doing something can help a lot!
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I really liked the video, because I think that nowadays, not just because of the pandemic, we teenagers feel very frustrated and angry at the world, but as the speaker says, that feeling doesn’t really help anybody, and there is a direct action needed to change things. It’s very easy to just complain and write something on social media, but it’s much harder and effective to canalize that dissatisfaction and use it to change what you feel is wrong in the world. Because of the lockdown we might feel like we are powerless, and we can’t change things, but I believe that even though our actions are more limited now, we can still focus and direct our efforts into matters of our interest.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, Martín! As the saying goes ¨Easier said than done¨.
DeleteFrom what I gathered from the video, she talks about her own bad experiences and how she turned the frustration she felt about them into something positive, which is a message that can easily fit into our own situation. To use that negative as a driving force to do something better. But still, i feel like there’s not much we can do as teenagers be upset the reach our actions or words have is not as big as the one an adult in a place of power has. That doesn’t mean we must not do anything to help or make a change, just not to dream too big, as pessimistic as that sounds.
ReplyDeleteEveryone can help according to their possibilities, Cata!
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Turn dissatisfaction into action
ReplyDeleteWhen we feel dissatisfied about something that is going on in our lives we have two options, disregard the issue and try to keep on with our common activities, or we can do something about it.
The problem with this situation is that many times we say we’re going to take action, but in the end they're just words, nothing happens.
Nowadays there are many ways to help people who are in need, it is also easier to get in touch with charity foundations here in our country or in a foreign one.
There are a lot of online campaigns that simply consist in making a donation or sharing something on your social media, but I think the main point of the Ted Talk was to show a way of actually doing something beyond giving money or clicking on an icon, which is going personally to help and to really do more, change the way things are.
I do agree with the point of the video; the only real way to make a change is more than just saying that we’re going to do things and telling others to do so, actually we should stand up and take care of it, get involved.
It’s really easy to complain and say that everything’s wrong, it's harder to actually try to help, and you don’t always find a good and simple way to do it.
For example, search from a list of the many benefit institutions that our country has (if we want to help our country) and turn words into action.
Sometimes making a change can be a very difficult task, but as it was said in the talk, even if sometimes you might want to give up, you can always, with effort and commitment, find a way to turn dissatisfaction into action and make a change where you want.
Absolutely, Benjamín!
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I think that being teenagers sometimes it is very hard to make change in the things we find unfair. We should practice what she said because even in our position we can help. When we are unhappy or frustrated we should use it to allow change. We should never be satisfied when we think something is unfair even if we are told we are too young. We should always turn dissatisfaction into change and the negative things we find into motivation to help.
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DeleteWell, her story was pretty powerful, considering the history and the conditions that africans have endured over the last centuries, and to hear how she has had an impact on her city puts a smile on my face. If I had to extrapolate her main point to our current situation, I would say it's a little bit more complicated because of the pandemic (accounting for socioeconomic factors in both countries as a whole). It's a lot harder to mobilise, and we all have special responsability to not spread the virus around. That doesn't mean that you can't do anything, we can definetly find ways to donate basic goods to organizations. If you don't do that, then even staying informed and critical about recent events is a way of getting involved and ready to take action in making the change you want to see.
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I think it's admirable the way she transformed her anger into something positive, and all the changes she made for her own town. Also how she recovered from all the catastrophes, and instead of feeling frustrated, she turn that frustration into real action for helping the people who needed. Usually, and specially in a situation like the one we are living, we get frustrated and disapointed in the way things are going, and how the people in power have handle this situation. But that is not helpful, we must turn that feeling into real change. And not get depressed on the fact that we are young, and we have no real power, there is much we can do.
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You are absolutely right, Romano! Great!
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I think that staying at home, as necessary as it is, can cause a lot of dissatisfaction because it stops us from doing the things that keep us motivated. Of course we should respect the quarantine, but I see how staying inside can lead to a vicious circle of dissatisfaction. Right now I think it’s very important to listen to ourselves and prioritize our wellbeing and mental health in general. That being said, I believe it would be good for everyone to avoid staying in bed all day and instead trying to do whatever makes them happy and distracts them from things that could be bringing them down. Now I don’t mean everyone has to read ten books, work out everyday or learn a new language. If you do it then great, but what I’m saying is everyone should try to spend some time doing things they specifically like, whatever those may be.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely agree, Amparo!!
DeleteI think today's world is filled with dissatisfaction, and it shows. We are going through a period of change, that hasn't been ignored by my generation. In chilean reality, many people are tired, and last october, young girls and boys realized it had been enough. That discomfort, that disagreement impulsed a seek for justice,
ReplyDeleteone that was followed by the main affected: our parents and grandparents. These feelings had been there since Pinochet's dictatorship, but there was that much that it caused an explosion. Being dissatisfied was and still is the beginning of social change processes, it may feel but at first but it serves a purpose. Emotions are always valid but dissatisfaction is also useful when we turn it into action.
Excellent writing, Mati!
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Today, as we are facing a global pandemic, people have found ways of helping the most affected ones. They have organized "common cooking pots" and also collected clothes and personal hygiene items to donate, for example. I agree with Aki-Sawyerr when she says it´s better to act than to ignore what´s bothering you. And I trully believe that things can only bother you if you know what is happening and what the problem is. So the first step would be to inform ourselves, think about the matter and then act. This way you´ll be motivated to act because you really think something´s wrong. And as teenagers I guess our role is to come up with creative ideas to find new ways of doing things. Currently, we have tools that didn´t exist before, like the internet, so hopefully we´ll use them well.
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Excellent conclusion, Nina!
DeleteI think this TED talk was very inspiring, I think our generation can relate to the message that was given.
ReplyDeleteAs chilean highschool students we’ve experienced a lot the last few months, first we saw the army on the streets and had a curfew that wasn’t defined by our parents, then the pandemic came and all of our senior year dreams were cancelled.
In my opinion, we’ve been taking action during this difficult times, some of us participated in protests while the social outburst was taking place and at the same time, we discovered a whole new reality. Since Covid-19 arrived to our country, this painful and immensely unfair reality got even worse and I think that me and my classmates have been very conscious and supportive through solidarity campaigns and spreading information through social media, not just to let people know what’s happening, but also for spreading awareness.
We’ve done a good job at turning dissatisfaction into action, but we can do even better by continuing to use our privileges for helping others.
Everything you have done, helps a lot!
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Today I watched an inspiring talk about someone who turned dissatisfaction into action. Right now, as a teenagers, our generation seems powerless about the COVID-19 outbreak that is going on right now. If you're at least a little bit empathetic and do not deny this virus's existence, you can feel dissatisfied about how poorly the government handled the situation and would rather waste our tax money into repression gadgets such as those expensive water launching cars than helping the people who can't stay home because they're hungry or drowning in debt. Doing nothing in this context isn't actually useless, since staying at home helps trying to reduce the amount of infections per day. If you, as a seemingly powerless teenager, want to attempt to help immediately, and staying at home isn't enough for you, you can try to help delivering supplies to community feeding instances by spreading information or by delivering the resources yourself. If staying at home is enough for you, but you don't like the government, you have time to plan on how to overthrow the government or what should be done to make this abusive economic system more bearable. We have time to think, and thinking is a good thing to do before acting.
ReplyDeleteExcellent writing, Santiago!
DeleteStaying at home is a help and doing things from home could be a great help!
The feeling Yvonne talks about in the TED Talk is very similar - if not identical - to the one I have felt throughout the confinement. There are people who are dying in my country - and around the world - from having to go out to work to bring food home. Others who do not have a job and die from going to feed common cooking pots that have emerged with the organized people. How do we control this virus? How do we stop it?
ReplyDeleteIt is frustrating to know that what helps the most to stop this virus is to stay at home, because one hopes to do more, but it is as simple as that. Still, there are the aids that one can give to common pots, donating food or money for it. As much frustration and sadness - and dissatisfaction - as I feel about what is happening, I am given hope by the organization of the people and the solidarity that has been seen in this time when we are the ones who help each other more than anyone else.
Oh, and sorry for the delay Miss :(
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