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Natural Mystic Special user Atlanta, GA 502 Posts 
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Amazing Speaker!
Diana Watson (唐華瑄) is the first foreigner to beat all native Mandarin speakers in a Toastmasters Mandarin speech contest. Her speech, "Am I Strange?", is a humorous speech that teaches how to not make assumptions on one's appearances and accept everyone's unique qualities.
"You never change the existing reality by
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magicfish Inner circle 6768 Posts
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How do we know she isn't Chinese? Did she have to show a birth certificate before the contest to prove it?
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tommy Eternal Order Devil’s Island 16222 Posts
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Talking Chinese is easy.
Is it whisky? Well, it is safer than wobbing a bank!
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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gallagher Inner circle 1082 Posts
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As a white male, in his 60's,
grown up in Canada, the U.S., and Europe; I'm really tired of hearing: "a 'black' did this." "a 'women' did this." ,... The really funny thing IS(!): I,...will be called a 'racist'(!) for saying this. On top of this, I have NOTHING(!) to fall back on! I'm not Gay. I'm not an Abandoned child. I'm not a poor Junky or an Alchoholic. I'm not a member of an opressed sect. ....no 'unique qualities'. ...i think my mother even likes me(!). I know, I know,... I guess my problem is: I'm boring. hmm? 🤔 That ain't gonna buy me much sympathy.... Toast! 🍻 to a "..black woman who won a chinese speak contest!" i have a dream. someday, the winner of 'the Roastmaster chinese speaking contest' will be anounced,... only by their name. i have a dream. gallagher .....back to wobbing banks, it's probably SAFER than saying this! |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27134 Posts
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The audience liked the speech. bravo
How wrong is it to imagine Elmer Fudd doing that toast/speech? i. e. how do you measure position on a scale of pity / privilege?
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tommy Eternal Order Devil’s Island 16222 Posts
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The name Gallagher is of ancient Gaelic origin and is derived from word 'gallchobhar', meaning 'foreign help.'
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Josh Riel Inner circle of hell 1999 Posts
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To all of this I would say: so?
Black women, like all humans, possess the basic capacity to do anything else that anyone else can do, with equal or better training. Skin pigment or gender doesn't affect intelligence. Learning a language from your parents and family doesn't mean you'll be better than a person learning it in a structured environment. I can only speak English, but I bet there are millions of people who speak it as a second language who are more clear and better... I'm only clear-ish because I have spell correct, Google, and can edit it all before I hit send. Maybe if it were about any woman carrying more weight in books about Chinese... then gender might be relevant, the distinction between race is largely irrelevant. I didn't see the video, maybe she was carrying a lot of books.
Magic is doing improbable things with odd items that, under normal circumstances, would be unnessecary and quite often undesirable.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil’s Island 16222 Posts
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One can use magical memory techniques to learn a language. Or at least learn a number of words. As I recall Paul Danniels had some books on it, mnemonics.
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ringmaster Inner circle Memphis, Down in Dixie 1856 Posts
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This is the biggest thing since that Japanese high school girl won the Celtic speaking contest a few years back.
Bally Hoo and Hullabaloo
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tommy Eternal Order Devil’s Island 16222 Posts
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White man speaks with forked tongue, so they say.
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Pop Haydn Inner circle Los Angeles 3506 Posts
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On Feb 2, 2021, gallagher wrote: I think the "First foreigner to ever win against native speakers of Mandarin" is the point. The fact that she is black or female isn't important. It is quite an achievement. |
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magicfish Inner circle 6768 Posts
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Again, how do we know she is a foreigner?
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tommy Eternal Order Devil’s Island 16222 Posts
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Because she said, I was born an American, my momma and daddy are both Black, their families both have lived in the States for 300 years.
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magicfish Inner circle 6768 Posts
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On Feb 16, 2021, tommy wrote: No. She didn't. |
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tommy Eternal Order Devil’s Island 16222 Posts
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Yes. She did.
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Pop Haydn Inner circle Los Angeles 3506 Posts
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Yes, she did. In the very beginning of the speech. She has lived in Taiwan a long time.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil’s Island 16222 Posts
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Jack was talking about a black fella the other day whose name I could not recall, but I knew what fellas he was talking about and I can recall something the fella said: when one is born black in America, you do not know you are black and you root for the Cowboys, not the Indians and then one day you find out, you are the Indians. He did not fit in.
This young lady has a similar story. “Even though I was born an American, even though I was born an American, my momma and daddy are both Black, their families both have lived in the States for 300 years, something inside my core just said “You don’t fit here. In order to find, to discover who you really are, you’re gonna need to go somewhere else to find it.” She left America, it seems to me, because she was black and as a result learned to speak Chinese. So I think it is an important part of her story. https://www.living-corporate.com/2020/10......-watson/
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5021 Posts
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The quote from James Baldwin tommy is talking of starts at 4:11
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magicfish Inner circle 6768 Posts
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Quote:
On Feb 17, 2021, tommy wrote: Whats an American? |
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magicfish Inner circle 6768 Posts
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On Feb 16, 2021, Pop Haydn wrote: Not long enough apparently. She is still referred to as a foreigner? Wow. That's awful. |
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