We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TEDxEuston
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Never miss a talk! SUBSCRIBE to the TEDx channel: http://bit.ly/1FAg8hB http://www.tedxeuston.com Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie a renowned Nigerian novelist was born in Nigeria in 1977. She grew up in the university town of Nsukka, Enugu State where she attended primary and secondary schools, and briefly studied Medicine and Pharmacy. She then moved to the United States to attend college, graduating summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a major in Communication and a minor in Political Science. She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins and a Masters degree in African Studies from Yale University. She was a 2005-2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton, where she taught introductory fiction. Chimamanda is the author of Half of a Yellow Sun, which won the 2007 Orange Prize For Fiction; and Purple Hibiscus, which won the 2005 Best First Book Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the 2004 Debut Fiction Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. In 2009, her collection of short stories, The Thing around Your Neck was published. She was named one of the twenty most important fiction writers today under 40 years old by The New Yorker and was recently the guest speaker at the 2012 annual commonwealth lecture. She featured in the April 2012 edition of Time Magazine, celebrated as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. She currently divides her time between the United States and Nigeria. Intro and Outro music by Kadialy Kouyate performed at TEDxEuston 2011. You can view the full performance here: http://youtu.be/KUfD5WGL3hw. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.
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slw2ssidoe
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She's made me totally FEMINIST plus I loved the last sentence of the talk
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tbh niggers should all go back 2 africa prove me wrong
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Wow! Nigeria sounds like a seriously sexist place.
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So beautiful. Brought tears to my eyes. This women is so powerful and beautiful.
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feminism = bias opinions
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nope
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8:00
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and I did notice how the nigerian men in the crowd were not clapping
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it will take Nigerians another 100 years to change there view on feminism.. and Anambra state maybe 150... I have Notting against women but, I think they are the salt of the earth but it is.. what it is!
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so true!!! We should raise our kids differently.. I do!!
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There's no such thing as an intelligent feminist. An intelligent woman would see the feminist movement for what it is and how it's portrayed and avoid it like the plague. If somebody identifies as a feminist then rest assured that they're a person worth avoiding.
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Everyone should watch this.
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Feminism is not needed in first world nations.After equality is met in third world nations,throw out the femininsts after equality is reached.Like in America,you will end up in a nation of fat acceptance women who wear crew cuts,collect cats and lead the world in abortion,obesity,single motherhood and divorce who are not strong and independant and are flat broke,who refuse to play any traditional roles....
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If you want equality so bad, why is it that you insult meninists calling them mysoginistic but you expect everyone to take part in a sexist movement called feminism that it's exclusively to advocate for female rights, specially when 2013 females already had more rights, benefits and advantages than males ?
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Although I dont agree with modern feminism it is really nice to see someone who doesn't scream in your face making ridiculous points like feminist frequency and buzzfeed do, but someone who talks calmly and respectfully not man hating or showing false statistics but giving a balanced argument in a proffesional manner. If feminism had more people like this maybe it wouldn't have turned out as such a joke.
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She is the feminist i aspire to be.
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No thanks. I love men and want a family. Feminism is not for me and neither is lesbianism.
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wow, this genuinely opened up my mind
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