TEDxChCh - Linh Do - Defying Social Norms for Social Change
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Published 2010-11-09
19-year-old Linh Do is the founder of Change and Switch in Australia. Four years ago, Linh initiated the Change a Million Light Bulbs project in Melbourne to get people to switch from incandescent to LED or compact fluorescent light bulbs. The project later went Australia-wide under the name Change and Switch and, as of November 2009, incandescent light bulbs are no longer for sale in Australia.
Just three years ago, Linh was trained by Al Gore to be a Climate Project presenter and deliver the slideshow behind An Inconvenient Truth, and earlier this year, Linh was one of 250 international passengers to spend two months on the Ship of World Youth, an initiative by the Government of Japan to facilitate intercultural exchange.
Linh is currently studying for her Bachelor of Arts in International Politics and Environmental Studies, as well as the University of Melbourne's Universitas 21 Diploma in Global Issues.
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All Comments (21)
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We need to get to a point where every single individual thinks for themselves and does not blindly follow others. We weren't given the ability to think and create just so that we could shut our minds and hearts off. Don't ever worry about what others think. As has been said "Listen to your heart above all other voices" Thanks for the talk, the ideas and the video, please keep up the good work. Thanks and Peace.
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an inspiring individual - one to check what she's up to now be challenged - clearly some commenters below were unable to hear broadly enough...
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Really inspiring talk, loved the topic and the way she addressed it. Greetings from Spain.
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I keep the good ones and break all other social norms and conventions, especially the bad ones.
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One of the best TED talks ever ❤️
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What a cool girl! Love her style and sensibility.
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What does the social norms handbook say what the social norms should be these days anyhow? One would be to lagth at this post for a start I would presume?
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Just some thoughts on viewing this which may be a waste of time or possibly a method of resistance. -Why do we have to be different and who defines different? Aren’t social norms created by society which is made up of you, me, and everyone else? Yet, creating social change is similar to pre-teens and teens learning who they are as humans and struggling to live through this life experience. Essentially, we should change to change to be different from the changes that were previously made which, were the exact same thing but, done by other people in the distant to not to distant past. So, will the next generation of youth communicate the same message in just a slightly different way, as they will be seeking to change and defy the social norms that are attempting to do the same thing right now, as everyone else has done the exact same thing in every previous generation?
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Social Norms are what has been referred to as The New Morality. Social norms are subjective “situation ‘ethics,’” (which always leads to double “standards”), and thus relativistic as they are continually evolving and cannot be clearly defined.
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She is Vietnamese origin, I guest.
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Yay boy
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I'm here because I was told I defy social norms
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5/5
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Leads me on to the sixty's generation and how things that happened in the sixty's have changed human beings world society for ever some say for the good others for the bad? Long Long topic this one but the sixty's genetation never want it to stop! I believe before the sixty's the general masses peoples where generally of a mind that one grew worked made a home then had a family then passed the ball on sort of speek and where probably in most cases ready to pass over hopefully in the least pain possible. See back then life was tougth very tougth and hardy they had to be but to the point where when they became older they where ready for death there is no other way of putting it! I am sure the masses would have been of the attitude that I have struggled all my life been through every thing there is except death and now I am ready for it. Would be easy to imagine that one was going to go and be with the people they loved once again. do not get me wrong there is similar today people lose people but back then your people where your people if that makes any seance? Non of this moving on type of thing as there would be know one to move on with? And even so people who lived would more than likely be in a lot of pain one way or the other. One thinks yes there was a difference in class but class could not save you from pain and suffering the way it can these days. Theys days the elite class could probably well could get a new heart in a week while the poor stand little to no chance bacj then mortality counted about even across the classes may be a little diffrence but nothing like there is to day! anyway I am getting of topic here!
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I wonder where is this smart girl now
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Learn about Resource Based Economy.
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I was waiting for her to get to the point for half of the talk...
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Has any noticed that the TED talks are increasingly becoming a sort of stand-up comedy shows with the addition of a few slides on the wall? Yeah... me too.
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O_O Natalie Tran?!? Just joking. :P Good job!
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Your parents arent giving you “expectations”, they’re giving you some sort of direction in life because why else would you orient yourself as a proper human being.
