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Julissa Arce on why success isn’t worth her assimilation

2023/3/20
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Julissa Arce: 我重新定义了成功的含义。它并非仅仅指经济上的成功，而是指对自身文化和身份的接纳与庆祝。我经历了漫长的同化过程，试图融入美国主流文化，却发现这并不能带来真正的满足感。相反，它让我付出了巨大的代价，包括失去与自身文化的联系以及内心的平静。我呼吁人们放弃这种无休止的追逐，转而关注自身文化和历史，从而找到真正的归属感和自我价值。我分享了自身的故事，以及在墨西哥和美国所经历的文化冲突和偏见，并鼓励人们去了解自身的历史，从而更好地理解自身在社会中的位置。我强调，即使是小规模的行动，也能带来深远的影响，并鼓励人们从自身做起，去改变社会。 Chris Duffy: Julissa Arce 的经历和观点引发了对“成功”和“美国梦”的重新思考。她的故事揭示了同化带来的负面影响，以及对文化认同和自我接纳的重要性。她对成功的重新定义，以及对同化现象的批判性分析，为听众提供了新的视角，并鼓励人们去探索更完整、更真实的自我。

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Julissa Arce discusses her journey of redefining success, from achieving the American dream through high-paying jobs on Wall Street to realizing that true success involves more than financial gain.

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When do you feel like you've reached "success"? Julissa Arce is an acclaimed social justice advocate, the author of four books, a former vice president at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, and was named a 2019 Woman of the Year by the City of Los Angeles. But if you ask her, she’s still redefining what success looks like, and if it matters. Julissa immigrated to the United States at 11, and was undocumented for almost 15 years. In her latest book, and in today’s episode, she rejects the idea that assimilation can create belonging and brings success – and asks what we can do instead to reconnect and celebrate all that makes us unique. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts)