Understanding Situated Knowledge in our Everyday Lives | Swinzle Chauhan | TEDxTerryTalks

Do our attitudes make us who we are more than our circumstances? Swinzle Chauhan certainly thinks so. In this TEDx talk, she talks about how different people have their opinions based on different ‘places of knowing’ and how these are shaped by their experiences or beliefs. Using her own experience growing up with vitiligo, an autoimmune disease she was diagnosed with at the of 6, Chauhan tells the story of confronting her own “labels” - using it as a method to educate people about her circumstances.
Swinzle is a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Environmental Sciences and Human Geography at UBC.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@woozbee]

8:59 knowledges and perceptions and attitudes are not static. Donna Haraway says that we are limited by who we are and where we are and it is very easy to privilege our own point of view.
9:20 the only way that we can really test and even see our prejudices is by interacting with each other. and so what that means is that if you and I have a conversation and one of us or both of us is able to change some of the ways in which we think or make and unmake some of our prejudices - if we can understand that that can and does happen it means they're one step closer to knowing how to engage other people and to bring them into our ideas and to get some of their ideas.
12:32 think about all of the connections you have in your brain. all of your knowledges, your perceptions, your biases your beliefs, your morals and picture them in a great bubble of connections in your head. think of your schema. and now think that the entirety of that is constructed by the people around you and your surroundings and without that the entire thing would collapse. this is why society is so important and this is why real interactions are so, so important. the enormity of that is pretty breathtaking and I think if we all took the time in our everyday lives to constantly acknowledge this we might be a society that was perhaps more social and definitely more compassionate.
13:56 remember that it is your attitudes and your interactions with others that make you who you are far more than your circumstances ... be kinder to others, to listen to others, to acknowledge where others are coming from and to know they're situated knowledge -- is to see how we can come together and interact. because at the end of the day we are all connected and all of our knowledges are made up by each other.

[@Mewzyque]

Which part of Malaysia, I wonder

[@rohann6640]

I know her in penang