The whole time her voice sounds so family but to me it it's soothing like Sonia from jayesslee might be b/c of being from Australia? Not sure but maybe just me
As an immigrant that resulted from the disturbances of the Vietnam War, I can relate to the hardships Tan had endure. It's hard to comprehend unless one has experienced it first hand. She had a boat, we had none. My grandmother had to carry 3 grandchildren tied together with bamboo across the Mekong river. We fled communist Laos and sought shelter in Thailand; a neutral country during the war. 10 years we were in the red cross refugee camp before settling in the States. I would like to have a session on TED some day. I think the socialist aspect of our nation is neglected and as a result, you tend to see the pursuit of personal gain before national gain.
Feel sorry for you, Viet Nam war is so f*cking pointless and is funny how the US started Vn war and then helped the emigrants after the war that they start :)
@@gonkong5638 do you have problem of listening comprehension skills? It's not a real question, it's a joke question, and if you need a real answer "Cộng Sản" is true answer. France bring to Rubber, Architecture, Economic....and the reasons for poverty in the north is "Jappan", the solution to that problem is apoil at Sounthern.
I am so grateful that women like Tan le stand up and tell their story. It makes my story much easier to bear knowing others have endured so much in their lives. Thank you for sharing your life with us.
As a Vietnamese person living in a communist country now, I am sympathize her story. I'm in young generation in Vietnam. Everyday Vietnamese people live without doubt about the government. We don't have freedom to vote a good- personality person into government. Also Vietnamese people are not allowed to have free meeting and talk about the communist party. Government control Vietnamese people by the military. Vietnamese people need freedom.
I have to log in Gmail in order to Like and answer your comment. I am also a Vietnamese and now I'm studying in Canada. Even though I'm just 24 years old, I know whole of stories about Vietnam War. I just want to talk 1 sentence "Dit Me Communist sell country to Chinese ". We need human right. We need freedom. We don't need dictatorial regime.
ilike pi, there really is nothing confusing. Her grandfather died and was never able to share his life work of poetry. It had to be burned because the communists don't like individuality. Her grandmother died many years later. Maybe watch the video again or take some poetry classes. This woman is very poetic in her story of parts of her life.
I haven't read all the comments... but I seriously cannot understand why there are so many dislikes on this video. This is one of the most emotional and best stories told!
she has a thoughtful voice. it touches my heart I don't Know, Why I was crying when she mentioned her grandmother it runs through the women remarkable words
Beautiful story Tan...knowing you & your family it’s even more personable. Congratulations on your success, your mother must be very proud. As my mother just recently passed last week, your story very similar to ours as boat refugees is ever more important for the sacrifices our mothers made for us. 🙏♥️
"The person coughing" was a 96-year-old woman named Hin Su Cho. She wanted to see her adopted granddaughter give a speech. The doctors told her she should not travel due to her Stage 4 Lung Cancer, but Hin fought through it and went, knowing it would be the last time she saw her adopted granddaughter speak. I'll let her know Sarah found her illness annoying and inconvenient.
chị ơi, em ngưỡng mộ chị quá.mạnh mẽ, nhẹ nhàng, dịu dàng. em nghe câu chuyện của chị many times những lần nào cũng đầy cảm xúc. cảm ơn chị đã cho em a new lesson
Are you Vietnamese? All Vietnamese will be able to connect with this immigrant story and see the point is about going through challenge. How challenge is to be embraced, makes us better. That was the meaning of the end. She wants her children to be challenged.
Alex Bui there are comments made by Viets (Viet nationals not us overseas) that were like “Because of people who “dress like western, use western product”... “are the roots of (Vietnam’s) poverty”. Anyways those Viets disliked us because we were FORCED to leave/grow up in foreign countries!
Didn't think I'd like this speech, but it was fantastically written and delivered. No idea why there are so many dislikes on it...obviously from people who didn't watch the whole thing.
I just Ms. Le's name in an assignment and as I listened to her story, I reflect back on my own journey to the US from Jamaica and the many hardships that I had to face and still facing. As I looked at the thumps icons; I noticed that there were 280 thumps down and I quickly wondered WHY and it quickly left my mind as the answer came to my mind. The HATERS are needed! I am inspired
Thanks for sharing your life, I always admired you for your achievement without knowing your immigration story but now my admiration go beyond your product. You and your family are beautiful souls. God bless you all.
I dont think there needs to be a point for everyone. I am Vietnamese (20) and absolutely touched by her story. I love her story just because she showed me a piece of her jigsaw of our story, our history, our sorrow and our courage. Logic and ideology are not everything, they merely are means to an end. And well, emotion and sentiments somehow serve that end just as well.
Too good to be real. Most stories have many emotional content, but the way the stories are expressed, audiences often get teary along with the speaker. There was a tinge of humor also. Great talk. Regards.
Some men take their anti-feminism a bit too strong. She didn't even talk about why women deserve more rights or anything like that, she just talked about her struggles as a refugee from a war torn country.
@fieldninjai: You just dont have a heart to feel what she said. It was a true life story but not some campaigning talk. She is not a racist nor a sexist - A racist or sexist wont cry in the end of the story. I am a Vietnamese, I can feel her. Only when you have experienced the wars and death, you will see how strong the women can stand through all the pain. That's why Ted uploaded it here but not TEDx, this is not a story about woman, but a story about courage and life-remaking.
At first when I heard her speak, I thought she was an author of some book. When she tells her story it felt like I was reading the beginnings of Memoirs of a Geisha. Right now, I feel like a brat who had life easy.
Oh, and for those who say people should stay in their country, imagine if you were a Jew in Germany during Hitler's time. You live on the edge of the country and a short trip would be all it takes to ensure your family's safety, would you stay? Honestly, why would anyone not protect their family given the chance? I don't care if TEDxWomen is justified or not, her story is inspirational and TED is about ideas worth spreading. I find "be grateful for even your misfortune" worth spreading.
@dmg46664 TED is not only about science. It about several different fields e.g. technology, entainment, design, global issues and so on. The talks are also broken down for viewers into inspiring, courageous and so on. This is a TED talk, just not the one that you typically watch.
I could hardly believe my eyes when I see people thinking she's acting, or discouraging the idea of immigration. I'm come right out and tell you I'm a 16-year-old Chinese immigrant from Hong Kong in Canada. I'm too young to see the time of chaos, but I've heard enough stories to know the truth. In short, it's real. My own grandparents swam to Hong Kong, with nothing whatsoever. You dive, you swim, you land, and there you go, you've 'immigrated'. You have to build everything based on nothing.
It seems that this video is getting dislikes because people: - think TED can only be about one, or a very few things; - don't like that it's in a women-specific forum; - are put off by her accent, way of speaking, etc.; - are small-minded in general; - are racist, or, at the very best, bigoted. I'm sure there are other categories the dislikes fall into, but that's from a quick read of the first few pages. I have yet to see legitimate rationale in any negative comment.
She is one of lucky ones who has enough to money to buy the way for escaping. There were lots of people back then who faced much severe political punishment but did not have the money to pay for escaping.
It's quite obvious that her mother worked long hours to send her daughter to a private school for her education. Public schools in Australia started following US teaching practices in the mid-late 1980's and grammar levels dropped dramatically. Only the private schools were able to keep grammar as an educational priority. Tan Le has the cultivated Australian accent which she would have picked up at a private college, because they aren't commonly found in working class areas.
@purplefuzzythings It's not about discriminating, it's about focusing on women's issues. You need to stop thinking that just because it focuses on one group, or one issue, it means "discriminating".
Listening to Tan Le's story and reading the angry comments, I understand why TEDxWomen exists and that a vocal minority fears women. Keep telling stories.
@killacouknow Okay, I understand where you are coming from. But still it doesn't deserve that. TED is not only about science, but represents many different fields e.g. technology,global issue, entertainment, design. The speeches on the website itself are broken down into inspiring, fascinating, courageous and so on. This is also TedxWomen.
I married a woman who escaped Viet Nam on a boat in 1980. Therefore, I was drawn to this TED talk. Many of the TED talks by refugees and abused people are inspiring. I found this one to be so as well, but as I got to the end I was disappointed. At 11:00, Ms. Le says, "If there is a sinew in our family, it runs through the women. Given who we were and how life had shaped us, we can now see that the men that might have come into our lives would have thwarted us." I don't like the feminist dig. Men need to treat women with respect. Women need to treat men with respect. People need to treat other people with respect. Men need women, women need men and people need people. Feminism causes more separation. This is not what we need. I am very much in favor of women's rights, women being treated fairly and equally, and women being strong and brave, but I do not agree with feminism. With feminism the fight goes on. Men are the enemy. It should not be this way. The fighting needs to stop. We need peace. I am quoting Malala Yousafzai everyday, right now, because she is a hero to me. “Why is it that countries which we call so strong are so powerful in creating wars but so weak in bringing peace?" In response to this video I say, don't be so strong for women, but still too weak for peace.
That person who kept on coughing was actually annoying. Her speach was beautiful. I love it when others share their stories of their life. Thank you Tan Le for sharing your story.
There is no need to make this about race and fill it with hatred. This is a story of struggles-to-triumph. Please consider this before you post nasty comments.
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her voice is very soothing when she tells her story
The whole time her voice sounds so family but to me it it's soothing like Sonia from jayesslee might be b/c of being from Australia? Not sure but maybe just me
Very good story.
Words cannot express my admiration for this lady. The courage it must have taken to share one's story in this manner humbles me.
As an immigrant that resulted from the disturbances of the Vietnam War, I can relate to the hardships Tan had endure. It's hard to comprehend unless one has experienced it first hand. She had a boat, we had none. My grandmother had to carry 3 grandchildren tied together with bamboo across the Mekong river. We fled communist Laos and sought shelter in Thailand; a neutral country during the war. 10 years we were in the red cross refugee camp before settling in the States. I would like to have a session on TED some day. I think the socialist aspect of our nation is neglected and as a result, you tend to see the pursuit of personal gain before national gain.
Feel sorry for you, Viet Nam war is so f*cking pointless and is funny how the US started Vn war and then helped the emigrants after the war that they start :)
Who started that war?
裴疆慶 that is USA friend name France if you don’t know.
@@gonkong5638 do you have problem of listening comprehension skills? It's not a real question, it's a joke question, and if you need a real answer "Cộng Sản" is true answer. France bring to Rubber, Architecture, Economic....and the reasons for poverty in the north is "Jappan", the solution to that problem is apoil at Sounthern.
This is the first time I have watched a Vietnamese person in TED Talk. Wonderful!
I shared a similar story to hers and I got chills hearing this. Some memories even came back. I was only 5 at the time.
I am so grateful that women like Tan le stand up and tell their story. It makes my story much easier to bear knowing others have endured so much in their lives. Thank you for sharing your life with us.
As a Vietnamese person living in a communist country now, I am sympathize her story. I'm in young generation in Vietnam. Everyday Vietnamese people live without doubt about the government. We don't have freedom to vote a good- personality person into government. Also Vietnamese people are not allowed to have free meeting and talk about the communist party. Government control Vietnamese people by the military. Vietnamese people need freedom.
i hope one day u will get the freedom u ned ,want,and deserve
Then how are you able to get on the internet and talk about it here?
I have to log in Gmail in order to Like and answer your comment. I am also a Vietnamese and now I'm studying in Canada. Even though I'm just 24 years old, I know whole of stories about Vietnam War. I just want to talk 1 sentence "Dit Me Communist sell country to Chinese ". We need human right. We need freedom. We don't need dictatorial regime.
chế độ nào cũng vậy cả, từ tư bản đến cộng sản bạn ạ, bạn nói v không khác nào bêu rếu việt nam đang sống dưới 1 chế độ cầm tù ư ??
@@PhuongLe-cf3tn cái mà bạn đang nhìn thấy chỉ là bề ngoài đánh lừa thị giác thôi. Bên trong đó là nó thúi quắc luôn rồi
Her grandfather is alive in her words. Thank you for sharing your puzzle pieces.
Ok, is it grandfather or grandmother?? Was so confused throughout the vid
ilike pi, there really is nothing confusing. Her grandfather died and was never able to share his life work of poetry. It had to be burned because the communists don't like individuality. Her grandmother died many years later. Maybe watch the video again or take some poetry classes. This woman is very poetic in her story of parts of her life.
Sarah Gaskill lol u don't have to lowkey insult me lady. I hope you never become a teacher.
I didnt mean to insult you. Sorry if you took it that way. You just said you were confused. I was just trying to clarify.
Very good speaker, thanks for sharing your story, and your last comment's were so profound.
I haven't read all the comments... but I seriously cannot understand why there are so many dislikes on this video. This is one of the most emotional and best stories told!
who ?
asked
she has a thoughtful voice. it touches my heart
I don't Know, Why I was crying when she mentioned her grandmother
it runs through the women
remarkable words
Beautiful story Tan...knowing you & your family it’s even more personable. Congratulations on your success, your mother must be very proud. As my mother just recently passed last week, your story very similar to ours as boat refugees is ever more important for the sacrifices our mothers made for us. 🙏♥️
The person coughing was honestly so annoying. Bur her speech was absolutely beautiful :D
"The person coughing" was a 96-year-old woman named Hin Su Cho. She wanted to see her adopted granddaughter give a speech. The doctors told her she should not travel due to her Stage 4 Lung Cancer, but Hin fought through it and went, knowing it would be the last time she saw her adopted granddaughter speak.
I'll let her know Sarah found her illness annoying and inconvenient.
@@williegates627 chill out dude how was she supposed to know
@@williegates627bro spent a year studying for that 💀💀💀
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chị ơi, em ngưỡng mộ chị quá.mạnh mẽ, nhẹ nhàng, dịu dàng. em nghe câu chuyện của chị many times những lần nào cũng đầy cảm xúc. cảm ơn chị đã cho em a new lesson
This has been by far my fav TEDtalk :-)
What a woman! She let me speechless.
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She speaks beautiful and eloquently.From the heart.That resonates with people from all walks of life.Bless you.
One of the best TED talk I'd ever viewed.
This was beautifully spoken and put together. She has such a gift for storytelling
I watch this many times and each time I broke into tears
It broke my heart at how an Asian girl like so many today against all odd and triumph
Are you Vietnamese? All Vietnamese will be able to connect with this immigrant story and see the point is about going through challenge. How challenge is to be embraced, makes us better. That was the meaning of the end. She wants her children to be challenged.
Alex Bui there are comments made by Viets (Viet nationals not us overseas) that were like “Because of people who “dress like western, use western product”... “are the roots of (Vietnam’s) poverty”. Anyways those Viets disliked us because we were FORCED to leave/grow up in foreign countries!
This is one of the most inspiring and touching stories I've ever heard.
I'm sad that most of the viewer comments have little to do with what she said.
Didn't think I'd like this speech, but it was fantastically written and delivered. No idea why there are so many dislikes on it...obviously from people who didn't watch the whole thing.
A truly inspiring story for all... Best wishes Tan Le ..!!!!
wow, her story is extremely inspirational...
I just Ms. Le's name in an assignment and as I listened to her story, I reflect back on my own journey to the US from Jamaica and the many hardships that I had to face and still facing. As I looked at the thumps icons; I noticed that there were 280 thumps down and I quickly wondered WHY and it quickly left my mind as the answer came to my mind. The HATERS are needed! I am inspired
Thanks for sharing your life, I always admired you for your achievement without knowing your immigration story but now my admiration go beyond your product. You and your family are beautiful souls. God bless you all.
I dont think there needs to be a point for everyone. I am Vietnamese (20) and absolutely touched by her story. I love her story just because she showed me a piece of her jigsaw of our story, our history, our sorrow and our courage. Logic and ideology are not everything, they merely are means to an end. And well, emotion and sentiments somehow serve that end just as well.
Why are their so many dislikes? This is a great speech!
Make me cry 😢 I’m one of the people who live in that time. Freedom was a very high price to pay.
rất xúc động và khâm phục câu chuyện của chị, hy vọng trong tương lai chị có thể sẽ chia sẻ và hỗ trợ các bạn trẻ trong nước...
what a beautiful story. tan le's presentation is so powerful and eloquent.
Very moving and so well spoken
She shared her story well and graciously. ...♥
ZOMG!!! this is the same women ho talked about the mind reading headset!! she's so effing awesome!!
Her story is very touching with all the pieces of the puzzle coming together.
Too good to be real. Most stories have many emotional content, but the way the stories are expressed, audiences often get teary along with the speaker. There was a tinge of humor also. Great talk. Regards.
WOW. That TED talk was so beautiful and so real.
I admire the women in her family including herself. And I believe she will have brave children like her.
What an amazing tale. Very inspiring. Very touching.
could listen to her for hours.
I am crying.
Apollinaria Elf why you crying?
what an incredibly strong woman
Some men take their anti-feminism a bit too strong. She didn't even talk about why women deserve more rights or anything like that, she just talked about her struggles as a refugee from a war torn country.
this almost made my cry, so powerful!
Amazing. I just cried, this is real and inspirational.
a noble and strong daughter,a noble and strong mother and a noble and strong grandmother. peace and love. =-)
Such an amazing life. Thank you!
Thank you for the video.
Nice video! very helpful
wonderful speech
She's so real. I'm completely moved by her story. 💔
so inspiring and humbling we take privilege for granted and have no idea what it really is
what a great story
I think this is a normal story but told beautifully.
You are amazing, like dang. We have a school report on immigration to Australia, choosing you.
@fieldninjai: You just dont have a heart to feel what she said. It was a true life story but not some campaigning talk. She is not a racist nor a sexist - A racist or sexist wont cry in the end of the story. I am a Vietnamese, I can feel her. Only when you have experienced the wars and death, you will see how strong the women can stand through all the pain. That's why Ted uploaded it here but not TEDx, this is not a story about woman, but a story about courage and life-remaking.
At first when I heard her speak, I thought she was an author of some book. When she tells her story it felt like I was reading the beginnings of Memoirs of a Geisha. Right now, I feel like a brat who had life easy.
Hey every person struggles one way or the other but those who withstand it all truly deserves to live...
Really touching... I ended crying. :(
Oh, and for those who say people should stay in their country, imagine if you were a Jew in Germany during Hitler's time. You live on the edge of the country and a short trip would be all it takes to ensure your family's safety, would you stay?
Honestly, why would anyone not protect their family given the chance?
I don't care if TEDxWomen is justified or not, her story is inspirational and TED is about ideas worth spreading. I find "be grateful for even your misfortune" worth spreading.
Beautiful..and my gosh I shouldn't have chopped onions
What a beautiful story.
simply amazing.
Wow. Story beautifully told.
so touching
"Go home to where ?" Did you have a home in America while you were at boat?
@dmg46664 TED is not only about science. It about several different fields e.g. technology, entainment, design, global issues and so on. The talks are also broken down for viewers into inspiring, courageous and so on. This is a TED talk, just not the one that you typically watch.
@ThePeacefulAtheistt I think it's independently organized so it isn't actually TED that marked it as xWomen, it was the assembly.
I could hardly believe my eyes when I see people thinking she's acting, or discouraging the idea of immigration. I'm come right out and tell you I'm a 16-year-old Chinese immigrant from Hong Kong in Canada. I'm too young to see the time of chaos, but I've heard enough stories to know the truth. In short, it's real. My own grandparents swam to Hong Kong, with nothing whatsoever. You dive, you swim, you land, and there you go, you've 'immigrated'. You have to build everything based on nothing.
TED's back!!!
Imagine the comments if it was a man telling this story.............
exactly why we need TEDxWomen.
It seems that this video is getting dislikes because people:
- think TED can only be about one, or a very few things;
- don't like that it's in a women-specific forum;
- are put off by her accent, way of speaking, etc.;
- are small-minded in general;
- are racist, or, at the very best, bigoted.
I'm sure there are other categories the dislikes fall into, but that's from a quick read of the first few pages. I have yet to see legitimate rationale in any negative comment.
She is one of lucky ones who has enough to money to buy the way for escaping. There were lots of people back then who faced much severe political punishment but did not have the money to pay for escaping.
So inspiring. A remarkable woman.
It's quite obvious that her mother worked long hours to send her daughter to a private school for her education. Public schools in Australia started following US teaching practices in the mid-late 1980's and grammar levels dropped dramatically. Only the private schools were able to keep grammar as an educational priority. Tan Le has the cultivated Australian accent which she would have picked up at a private college, because they aren't commonly found in working class areas.
Powerful...Well Spoken.
@purplefuzzythings It's not about discriminating, it's about focusing on women's issues. You need to stop thinking that just because it focuses on one group, or one issue, it means "discriminating".
Listening to Tan Le's story and reading the angry comments, I understand why TEDxWomen exists and that a vocal minority fears women. Keep telling stories.
Where can I buy this truly remarkable jigsaw puzzle?
@killacouknow Okay, I understand where you are coming from. But still it doesn't deserve that. TED is not only about science, but represents many different fields e.g. technology,global issue, entertainment, design. The speeches on the website itself are broken down into inspiring, fascinating, courageous and so on. This is also TedxWomen.
This was a touching story! :')
a beautiful story, a beautiful woman.. thank you chi Tan Le.
I married a woman who escaped Viet Nam on a boat in 1980. Therefore, I was drawn to this TED talk. Many of the TED talks by refugees and abused people are inspiring. I found this one to be so as well, but as I got to the end I was disappointed.
At 11:00, Ms. Le says, "If there is a sinew in our family, it runs through the women. Given who we were and how life had shaped us, we can now see that the men that might have come into our lives would have thwarted us." I don't like the feminist dig.
Men need to treat women with respect. Women need to treat men with respect. People need to treat other people with respect. Men need women, women need men and people need people. Feminism causes more separation. This is not what we need.
I am very much in favor of women's rights, women being treated fairly and equally, and women being strong and brave, but I do not agree with feminism. With feminism the fight goes on. Men are the enemy. It should not be this way. The fighting needs to stop. We need peace.
I am quoting Malala Yousafzai everyday, right now, because she is a hero to me.
“Why is it that countries which we call so strong are so powerful in creating wars but so weak in bringing peace?"
In response to this video I say, don't be so strong for women, but still too weak for peace.
rubiks6 I agree
"In all its parts, the most basic purpose of the 1924 Immigration Act was to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity."
i like her voice
That person who kept on coughing was actually annoying. Her speach was beautiful. I love it when others share their stories of their life. Thank you Tan Le for sharing your story.
@hd9xc1k2 She was raised in Australia. Did you not catch that part of her story?
Thank you. I see it now.
Very interesting.
There is no need to make this about race and fill it with hatred. This is a story of struggles-to-triumph. Please consider this before you post nasty comments.
someone could make a brief of this story, putting every important informations for an homework?
thanks
so strong!!!... AND
HAPPY WOMENS DAY
Oh must have pressed the wrong video in my subscriptions, thought this was TED
I am boat people in 1979 . I was only 14 .I come to Canada in 1980. My nephew die in the Maylasia
very good on her.
Who else is crying?
Did you listen to the video at all? australia