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How do you find yourself when you belong to two seemingly opposing cultures? Embracing the paradoxes of dual identity, creative disruptor Farhad Mohit explores how being both Iranian and American allows him to navigate the tension between independence and interdependence, progress and presence — and to live fully in the here and now. If you…

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How do you find yourself when you belong to two seemingly opposing cultures? Embracing the paradoxes of dual identity, creative disruptor Farhad Mohit explores how being both Iranian and American allows him to navigate the tension between independence and interdependence, progress and presence — and to live fully in the here and now.

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39 Comments

  1. @KamiaThomas-r2z

    September 4, 2024 at 7:01 am

    First ????

  2. @Takirjanof12

    September 4, 2024 at 7:02 am

    second????????

  3. @kaneezfatima4848

    September 4, 2024 at 7:06 am

    America may bhi parchimafia ka dor hai

  4. @amirhesamnoroozi3741

    September 4, 2024 at 7:31 am

    Iran means the land of Aryans. googling is a good thing before coming up on a stage.

    • @maria89479

      September 4, 2024 at 7:37 am

      Oh so it’s not wanting to run in the past tense

    • @amirhesamnoroozi3741

      September 4, 2024 at 7:47 am

      @@maria89479 what do you mean

    • @h.l.malazan5782

      September 4, 2024 at 7:58 am

      @@maria89479 I don’t get the reference. Please know I am not trying to bait you or anything. Can you elaborate a little further?

    • @history_timelines

      September 4, 2024 at 7:59 am

      @@h.l.malazan5782Iran as in ‘I ran’ as in ‘I ran away from x’

    • @h.l.malazan5782

      September 4, 2024 at 9:01 am

      @@history_timelines Got it. Thanks!

  5. @JuanPellat

    September 4, 2024 at 7:37 am

    Cringiest TED talk ever… what was the point?

  6. @rodintoulouse3054

    September 4, 2024 at 7:37 am

    5 minutes of poorly read nothingness…

    • @amirhesamnoroozi3741

      September 4, 2024 at 8:00 am

      It’s worse it had some false info init

    • @yogaonyourtime

      September 4, 2024 at 9:07 am

      you just didn’t understand him

    • @rodintoulouse3054

      September 4, 2024 at 9:46 am

      @@yogaonyourtime I don’t think anyone else did either

    • @RickLambert963

      September 4, 2024 at 10:23 am

      Immigration World Poverty and Gumballs 2010 – Immigration Doesn’t Work

  7. @monicavieira630

    September 4, 2024 at 7:45 am

    Wow! Só beautiful!❤ amazing

  8. @lt553

    September 4, 2024 at 7:48 am

    Let’s see who gets triggered by this. ????????

  9. @andycordy5190

    September 4, 2024 at 7:50 am

    ❤❤

  10. @TimCCambridge

    September 4, 2024 at 7:59 am

    Hi. As I see it, the Dark Left seeks to control fears, while the Far Right ignores them. Something like that?

  11. @history_timelines

    September 4, 2024 at 8:00 am

    Bro just waffled his way through this

  12. @sinico16

    September 4, 2024 at 8:11 am

    Anche altri paesi, in particolare in Europa, non riescono ad assimilare i loro immigrati. Sottolineano il “multiculturalismo” che è un’idea stupida perché tradisce le tradizioni e la storia della nazione ospitante.

  13. @stevesmith4901

    September 4, 2024 at 8:17 am

    I wonder which side of his cultural identity made his presentation so painfully awkward.

  14. @meanderinoranges

    September 4, 2024 at 9:25 am

    This talk might actually be worse than the glacier gender studies lady. Good job TED!

  15. @zhoudan4387

    September 4, 2024 at 9:27 am

    I tell you one paradox: the more liberal we get the more the absolutists hate us and the more we allow absolutists to invade us.

  16. @4390100

    September 4, 2024 at 9:48 am

    What?? LOL…..

  17. @Sg-lo5zy

    September 4, 2024 at 12:54 pm

    The title excited me so much (being a multi cultural person) but this video was disappointing ????

  18. @JesaniNizar

    September 4, 2024 at 1:42 pm

    Rumi was from konya in what is known as the modern day turkey, he spoke Persian but wasn’t one himself

    • @jiyonshorahmatov6536

      September 5, 2024 at 2:23 am

      You are naive bro , turks have never had as great people in science and poetry as persian. Turks were nomadic whilst Persians were urban

    • @drownedwhale

      September 6, 2024 at 1:45 am

      Rumi wasn’t Turkish bro come on just search instead of throwing

  19. @ichtube

    September 4, 2024 at 1:58 pm

    This was beautiful. Feel sorry for the slow black/white crowd who can’t comprehend.

  20. @adg-r4755

    September 4, 2024 at 4:40 pm

    ..”Love is the ether the universe swims in.” Beautiful.

  21. @StilwellDale-k9g

    September 4, 2024 at 5:36 pm

    Kian Mall

  22. @JaguarTheDancingChef

    September 4, 2024 at 9:03 pm

    I overstand. Being a dark skin man born in America with 20 different nationalities running through my blooditalian German peruvian and East Asian. Interdependence and realizing the interconnectedness within all is an important subject to address. I wish there was more passion in this talk but it sheds light on a very real and important topic. ❤

  23. @rlsrlxrlz319

    September 4, 2024 at 10:11 pm

    ????????✨????

  24. @CuriosityIgnited

    September 4, 2024 at 10:44 pm

    If Rumi and Silicon Valley had a baby, would it be a love letter or an app update?

  25. @Yelduk

    September 5, 2024 at 6:31 am

    Thanks to TED giving space for such talk, so refreshing . Kudos to speaker getting on stage regardless of his anxiousness .I think this talk isn’t seemingly understood in the direction it meant. Coming from multicultural back ground can be a superpower if we take the wisdom and positive attributes of cultures and blend them in a way that can serve the human problems of today. If we look at the world and anything related to human from only one angle, one uni-culture we lack important insights in many areas. And to be multicultural or to have multicultural insights does not even require having different ethnicities ( Although many nations are ethnically mixed throughout the history with strategic cross cultural marriages purely based on power and political interest, dark ages for humanity ). Hopefully we’ll see more of similar talks .

  26. @lukefredriksen7417

    September 6, 2024 at 7:49 am

    More of this, everywhere please!!!

  27. @aldovalkovich755

    September 6, 2024 at 10:37 am

    beautiful reflection. Thank you????

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