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TED Radio Hour: Identity

Entrepreneur Tan Le tells her family's harrowing journey from Vietnam to Australia. She talks abo...
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16.03 25 May 2017


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TED Radio Hour: Identity

TED Radio Hour: Identity

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16.03 25 May 2017


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Entrepreneur Tan Le tells her family's harrowing journey from Vietnam to Australia. She talks about how her upbringing as a Vietnamese refugee living in Australia has defined her identity.

What is it like to raise a child whose very identity is fundamentally different than yours? Writer Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents and how the experience shaped the identities of both parent and child.

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Novelist Elif Shafak describes how fiction has allowed her to explore many different lives, to jump over cultural walls, and how it may have the power to overcome identity politics.

What does "home" mean to someone who comes from many places? Writer Pico Iyer talks about the meaning of home in a world where the old boundaries of nation-states no longer apply.


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