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The Revolutionary Power of Diverse Thought
Elif Shafak is a Turkish author, columnist and speaker who writes stories of
women, minorities, immigrants, subcultures, and youth in both Turkish and
English. In this Ted Talk, she exposes the unprecedented challenges facing the
world today, the attraction to and fallacy of following demagogues, and how
these same problems will show us the way forward: the indispensability of
democracy, the need for global solidarity, the beauty of cosmopolitanism and
diversity, the portability of homeland, and the telling of stories that evoke
the taste of freedom.
