TED演讲：全球的虚拟社区将如何帮助孩子们实现他们的梦想
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| 0:04 | I'm the Latinx son of immigrants from a small Texas border town. | 我是来自德克萨斯州边境小镇的移民的拉丁裔儿子. |
| 0:08 | Growing up, I didn't have access to classical music, and I'd never been to the symphony. | 长大后没有获得古典音乐,也从未参加过交响乐. |
| 0:13 | But I always knew that I wanted to play a string instrument. | 但我一直知道我想弹弦乐 |
| 0:16 | So in sixth grade, when we got the opportunity to pick our instruments for orchestra class, | 所以在六年级的时候 当我们有机会为管弦乐班选乐器时 |
| 0:21 | I took one look at the viola and said, great, that'll work. | 我看了一眼viola 说,很好,那会管用。 |
| 0:26 | And as I began to play the instrument, I immediately fell in love with it. | 当我开始演奏乐器时,我立刻爱上了它. |
| 0:31 | Even though my middle school orchestra director was a fabulous space teacher, she could only | 虽然我的中学校管弦乐指导是一位出色的太空老师,但她只能 |
| 0:36 | teach me so much on the viola. | 教会我很多关于viola。 |
| 0:38 | And because there weren't any viola teachers in my town, to be able to play the things | 因为镇上没有维奥拉的老师 能演奏这些东西 |
| 0:41 | that I heard in my head, I turned to a teacher who seemed to know everything. | 我脑海中听到一个老师 好像什么都懂 |
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| 1 | I'm the Latinx son of immigrants from a small Texas border town. | 我是来自德克萨斯州边境小镇的移民的拉丁裔儿子. |
| 2 | Growing up, I didn't have access to classical music, and I'd never been to the symphony. | 长大后没有获得古典音乐,也从未参加过交响乐. |
| 3 | But I always knew that I wanted to play a string instrument. | 但我一直知道我想弹弦乐 |
| 4 | So in sixth grade, when we got the opportunity to pick our instruments for orchestra class, | 所以在六年级的时候 当我们有机会为管弦乐班选乐器时 |
| 5 | I took one look at the viola and said, great, that'll work. | 我看了一眼viola 说,很好,那会管用。 |
| 6 | And as I began to play the instrument, I immediately fell in love with it. | 当我开始演奏乐器时,我立刻爱上了它. |
| 7 | Even though my middle school orchestra director was a fabulous space teacher, she could only | 虽然我的中学校管弦乐指导是一位出色的太空老师,但她只能 |
| 8 | teach me so much on the viola. | 教会我很多关于viola。 |
| 9 | And because there weren't any viola teachers in my town, to be able to play the things | 因为镇上没有维奥拉的老师 能演奏这些东西 |
| 10 | that I heard in my head, I turned to a teacher who seemed to know everything. | 我脑海中听到一个老师 好像什么都懂 |
| 11 | You too. | 你也一样。 |
| 12 | By watching countless hours of YouTube videos of the great virtuosos performing everything | 透过无数小时的YouTube视频 观看伟大的虚拟人物表演一切 |
| 13 | from Beethoven to the musical suite from Star Wars, I tried to mimic their techniques and | 从贝多芬到《星球大战》的音乐套房 我试图模仿他们的技巧 |
| 14 | incorporate them into my own playing. | 把它们纳入我自己的游戏 |
| 15 | With a few difficult years of practice, a lot of blood, sweat and tears, and the endless | 历经数年艰难的练习,血流成河,流汗流泪,无穷无尽 |
| 16 | support of an entire community of people who really, really wanted me to succeed, I began | 支持整个社区的人 他们真正,真正希望我成功,我开始 |
| 17 | to play at places that I never even dreamed of, like Carnegie Hall, and bring my music | 像卡内基音乐厅一样 在我从未梦想过的地方演奏 带我的音乐 |
| 18 | to audiences across four different continents. | 给四大洲的观众 |
| 19 | It had been one of the most difficult learning experiences of my life, but one that proved | 这是我一生中最艰难的学习经历之一 但证明 |
| 20 | an important point. | 这一点很重要。 |
| 21 | Anyone from anywhere can do incredible things if you connect them with the knowledge and | 任何地方的任何人都可以做不可思议的事情 如果你把它们与知识联系起来, |
| 22 | resources that they need to thrive. | 资源,他们需要繁荣。 |
| 23 | On my travels, I became friends with the elite young musicians who seem to have all the resources. | 在我的旅行中,我成为了精英青年音乐家的朋友,他们似乎拥有所有的资源. |
| 24 | Because they lived next to musical capitals like New York, Chicago or L.A., they sit | 因为他们住在纽约,芝加哥或洛杉矶等音乐首都旁边,所以他们坐着 |
| 25 | at places like Juilliard on the weekends. | 在像朱利亚德这样的地方 在周末。 |
| 26 | They watched their teachers perform in major symphony orchestras, and they had access to | 他们看着老师在大型交响乐团演出 他们可以进入 |
| 27 | almost every musical opportunity that you can imagine right in their home communities. | 几乎每一个你能想象到的音乐机会 在他们的家乡社区。 |
| 28 | And even though I was proud of the hard work that I'd done to get to their level, I hated | 虽然我为我为达到他们的水平而付出的辛勤努力感到骄傲 但我讨厌 |
| 29 | always feeling behind because I never had access to private lessons. | 总是感觉落后,因为我从来没有 获得私人课程。 |
| 30 | So you can imagine how excited I was when I had the opportunity to take my first professional | 所以,你可以想象我是多么兴奋 当我有机会采取 我的第一个专业 |
| 31 | private lesson with one of the best violists in the world. | 私人课 与世界上最好的违法者之一。 |
| 32 | I just knew he'd be so excited about how much progress I'd made on my own and encourage | 我只知道他会很兴奋 我靠自己取得了多少进步 并鼓励 |
| 33 | me to become a professional musician. | 我要成为一个专业的音乐家。 |
| 34 | So it came as such a surprise when he told me to quit. | 所以当他让我戒烟时,真是意外 |
| 35 | He said kids like me who didn't start playing at an early age, who didn't have access to | 他说,像我这样的孩子 谁没有开始玩 在早期,谁没有机会接触 |
| 36 | private teachers and the best resources, who didn't really understand how the classical | 私人教师和最好的资源 他们并不真正理解古典主义 |
| 37 | music industry really operated, generally could not make it as professional musicians. | 音乐工业真的经营着,一般不能成为职业音乐家. |
| 38 | Now classical music is incredibly competitive, and sometimes people with all the resources | 现在古典音乐的竞争力令人难以置信, 有时人们拥有所有的资源 |
| 39 | don't even make it. | 都来不及了 |
| 40 | So I'm sure he thought he was doing me a favor, and maybe he was, but I was shocked. | 所以我肯定他以为他帮我一个忙 也许他帮了我 但我很震惊 |
| 41 | It hurt. | 它伤害。 |
| 42 | But I didn't want to disrespect him, so I smiled, said okay and left. | 但我不想不尊重他 所以我笑着说好就走了 |
| 43 | I was a 15-year-old who loved playing the viola more than anything, but in that moment, | 我是一个15岁的孩子 谁喜欢玩 viola 比任何事情,但那一刻, |
| 44 | I seriously considered putting my instrument away forever. | 我认真考虑过永远把乐器扔掉 |
| 45 | Now I'm 21 years old, and I couldn't be more grateful to have experienced that moment | 现在我21岁了 经历那一刻我实在感激不尽 |
| 46 | of discouragement because it opened my eyes to the fact that for 13 million children in | 因为它让我看到了一个事实,即对于1 300万儿童来说, |
| 47 | the United States who live outside of major US cities, pursuing a career in something | 住在美国大城市以外的美国 从事某种事业 |
| 48 | like classical music, ballet, art, research, and many other historically exclusive fields | 比如古典音乐,芭蕾舞,艺术,研究, 以及许多其他历史上独占的领域 |
| 49 | is incredibly more difficult, if not practically impossible. | 如果不是几乎不可能的话,那就更加困难了。 |
| 50 | In classical music, for example, people of color make up only around 15% of America's | 例如古典音乐中,有色人种只占美国15%左右 |
| 51 | orchestras despite representing almost 42% of the US population. | 乐团尽管占美国人口的近42%. |
| 52 | So in some ways, I don't blame that viola teacher for telling me to quit. | 所以在某些方面,我不怪那个维奥拉老师叫我辞职. |
| 53 | Music opportunities tend to cluster around major cities, especially the charities and | 音乐机会往往集中在主要城市,特别是慈善机构, |
| 54 | nonprofits that try to help underserved students, and I just wasn't around them. | 那些试图帮助得不到充分服务的学生的非营利组织, 而我只是不在他们身边. |
| 55 | But people have talent everywhere, and everybody deserves a chance to grow that talent and | 但是人们到处都有天赋,每个人都应该有种这种天赋 |
| 56 | share it with the world, because when we allow people like me to systemically be prevented | 因为当我们允许像我这样的人 被系统预防的时候 |
| 57 | from entering into these competitive fields, we uphold the elitist and exclusionary systems | 从进入这些竞争领域,我们坚持精英和排斥制度。 |
| 58 | that allow so many children to be told that they're not worthy enough to pursue their | 让这么多孩子被告知 他们没有资格追求 |
| 59 | dreams. | 梦想。 |
| 60 | I wanted to change that. | 我想改变这一点。 |
| 61 | For many years, I had no clue how, but when the COVID pandemic hit and our entire world | 多年来,我不知道如何, 但当COVID大流行 袭击和我们的世界 |
| 62 | went virtual, I saw an opportunity to help others learn music online regardless of who | 虚拟化的,我看到了帮助他人学习音乐的机会,不管是谁 |
| 63 | they were, where they lived, or what they could afford. | 他们住的地方,或者他们能负担的 |
| 64 | So I texted a few friends I knew from around the country and put together a founding team. | 于是我给几个朋友发了短信 我认识的来自全国各地的朋友 并组建了一个创始团队 |
| 65 | Together we reached out to 20 other musicians that we knew and asked each of them to teach | 我们一起联系了另外20名音乐家,我们认识他们,请他们每人教 |
| 66 | a free virtual private lesson a week to an underserved young student. | 每周为服务不足的年轻学生提供免费虚拟私人课程。 |
| 67 | This meant that students like Samuel Igbo, a 14-year-old violinist from a small town | 意思是像Samuel Igbo这样的学生 14岁的小提琴家 来自一个小镇 |
| 68 | in Texas who dreams of pursuing a career as a concert violinist, could receive personalized | 在德克萨斯州,梦想成为音乐会小提琴家 能够接受个性化 |
| 69 | musical mentorship from Nikki Nagavi, a prize-winning violinist at the New England Conservatory. | 来自新英格兰音乐学院获奖小提琴家妮基·纳加维的音乐导师. |
| 70 | My idea inspired and connected hundreds of people from all walks of life to offer their | 我的想法激励和联系了各行各业的数百人 |
| 71 | time and expertise to aspiring musicians like Sam from around the country. | 时间和专长 向有志向的音乐家 像山姆来自全国各地。 |
| 72 | And now, just two and a half years later, this little idea has turned into Through the | 而现在,仅仅两年半之后, 这个小想法已经变成了通过 |
| 73 | Staff, a national nonprofit that has provided almost $600,000 of free virtual private lessons | 工作人员,国家非营利组织提供了近60万美元的虚拟私人课程 |
| 74 | to almost a thousand young musicians from Fresno, California to Wilkesboro, North Carolina. | 从加州弗雷斯诺到北卡罗莱纳州威尔克斯伯勒的 近千名年轻音乐家 |
| 75 | I didn't realize it, but I'd accidentally started a virtual nonprofit. | 我没想到,但我意外地开始了一个虚拟非营利组织. |
| 76 | We didn't just use the internet to deliver our services. | 我们不只是利用互联网提供服务。 |
| 77 | Our organization existed on the internet because our program was run entirely by volunteers | 我们的组织存在于互联网上 因为我们的节目完全由志愿者管理 |
| 78 | from around the country who work together for a common cause despite never meeting once | 来自全国各地,尽管从未见过面,但为共同事业共同工作 |
| 79 | in person. | 亲自来 |
| 80 | Because our students and teachers could learn from each other online wherever they were, | 因为我们的师生可以在网上互相学习 无论他们在哪里 |
| 81 | geographic boundaries no longer mattered. | 地理界限不再重要。 |
| 82 | This digital workspace meant virtually no startup or scaling costs, so we've been able | 这个数字工作空间 几乎没有启动或缩放成本, 所以我们一直能够 |
| 83 | to grow and make incredible changes with a budget of only $9,000 over two and a half | * 增加和作出令人难以置信的改变,预算只有9 000美元,超过2.5美元 |
| 84 | years. | 岁月 |
| 85 | It was only after I began to see this profound potential for impact that I realized that | 直到我开始看到 深刻的影响潜力 我意识到 |
| 86 | virtual organizations can help us better distribute educational resources directly | 虚拟组织可以帮助我们更好地直接分配教育资源 |
| 87 | to those who have benefited from them the most. | 以享受最优厚的报酬者发誓, |
| 88 | And if this worked in classical music, I figured it can work in other places too, this time | 如果这在古典音乐里起作用 我想在其他地方也能行 这次 |
| 89 | in academic research. | 在学术研究中。 |
| 90 | When I began to explore biological research in my second year of college, I remember trying | 当我在大学二年级开始探索生物研究时 我记得我尝试过 |
| 91 | to find a mentor and being discouraged to only see white male researchers. | 寻找导师 并被劝阻 只见白人男性研究人员。 |
| 92 | Just like in music, this trend is systemic. | 与音乐一样,这一趋势是系统性的。 |
| 93 | Only 15% of all doctoral researchers were Native American, African American or Hispanic. | 所有博士研究生中只有15%是美洲原住民,非裔美国人或西班牙裔. |
| 94 | I wanted to change that, and I knew that the virtual nonprofit model that I had already | 我想改变这一点, 我知道,虚拟非营利模式 我已经 |
| 95 | developed could make a difference here too. | 发展也可以在这方面有所作为。 |
| 96 | I could start something that could help generations of future young researchers break into academia. | 我可以开始一些能帮助 未来几代年轻研究人员 进入学术界的东西。 |
| 97 | So in 2021, my best friend and I gathered a founding team of 31 college students and | 因此,2021年,我最好的朋友和我聚集了一个创始团队 31个大学生和 |
| 98 | started another virtual nonprofit called the Pre-College Research Institute. | 创办了另一个虚拟非营利机构,名为"大学前研究所". |
| 99 | Together, we've created four 32-hour virtual research courses that have taught, trained | 我们一起创建了四个32小时的虚拟研究课程 教授,训练 |
| 100 | and inspired 160 high school students of color, from Clarkstorpe, South Africa, to Nudelhi, | 并激励160名有色人种高中生,从南非的克拉克斯托普到努德尔希, |
| 101 | India, to Alpharetta, Georgia. | 印度,到格鲁吉亚阿尔弗雷塔. |
| 102 | If I could break down barriers in access to music and academic research, anyone can do | 如果我能打破 进入音乐和学术研究的障碍,任何人都可以 |
| 103 | it anywhere. | 随处可见 |
| 104 | That's exactly what makes virtual nonprofits so powerful. | 这正是虚拟非营利组织如此强大的原因. |
| 105 | They transcend geographic boundaries and bring opportunities to those who would literally | 它们超越了地理界限,为那些真正愿意 |
| 106 | never otherwise have them. | 永远没有 |
| 107 | They're a new way to find and connect the world to a huge source of untapped talent, | 它们是一种寻找和连接世界 与巨大的未开发人才来源的新方法 |
| 108 | and a necessary step to nurturing the future of these industries. | 以及培育这些行业未来的必要步骤。 |
| 109 | This is a future that will not only change the fabric of these institutions, but ensure | 这是一个不仅将改变这些机构结构的未来,而且将确保 |
| 110 | they survive and prosper for years to come. | 在未来的岁月里,它们生存和繁荣。 |
| 111 | And as more and more children are connected to the opportunities and knowledge and resources | 随着越来越多的儿童与机会、知识和资源联系在一起 |
| 112 | that they need to chase their dreams, I'm excited to see the people that lead every | 他们需要追逐他们的梦想, 我兴奋地看到 带领每个人 |
| 113 | industry look a lot more like the world around them. | 工业更像他们周围的世界 |
| 114 | I know that this transformation can happen, but I can't do it alone. | 我知道这种转变可以发生,但我不能独自完成. |
| 115 | So if you have an idea or interest for how to make a historically inaccessible field | 所以,如果你有想法或兴趣 如何使一个历史上无法进入的领域 |
| 116 | more equitable, grab a few friends, brainstorm a way that you can break down the barriers | 更公平,抓住几个朋友, 集思广益,你可以打破障碍 |
| 117 | in your field, and start a virtual nonprofit. | 在你的领域,开始一个虚拟的非盈利。 |
| 118 | You may never meet the majority of the people that you serve, but the effects of your hard | 你可能永远不会遇到你所服务的大多数人, 但影响你的艰难 |
| 119 | work will touch them in ways that they will never forget. | 工作会以他们永远不会忘记的方式触及他们。 |
| 120 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
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