For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism? | Aziz Abu Sarah

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00:12
I'm a tourism entrepreneur and a peacebuilder,
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Sóc un empresari turístic i constructor de pau,
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but this is not how I started.
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però així no és com vaig començar.
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When I was seven years old, I remember watching television
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Quan tenia 7 anys, recordo haver vist a la televisió
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and seeing people throwing rocks,
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gent llençant pedres,
00:24
and thinking, this must be a fun thing to do.
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i vaig pensar, això ha de ser divertit.
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So I got out to the street and threw rocks,
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Així que vaig sortir al carrer a tirar pedres
00:30
not realizing I was supposed to throw rocks at Israeli cars.
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sense adonar-me'n que se suposava que les havia de llençar als cotxes israelites.
00:34
Instead, I ended up stoning my neighbors' cars. (Laughter)
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Però jo vaig acabar llençant pedres als cotxes dels meus veïns. (Riures)
00:38
They were not enthusiastic about my patriotism.
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No van rebre el meu patriotisme amb gaire entusiasme.
00:42
This is my picture with my brother.
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Aquesta és una fotografia amb el meu germà.
00:44
This is me, the little one, and I know what you're thinking:
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Aquest sóc jo, el petit. Sé que esteu pensant
00:47
"You used to look cute, what the heck happened to you?"
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"Eres mono, què dimonis t'ha passat?"
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But my brother, who is older than me,
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Però el meu germà, que és més gran que jo,
00:52
was arrested when he was 18,
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El van detenir quan tenia 18 anys,
00:55
taken to prison on charges of throwing stones.
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va anar a presó per haver tirat pedres.
00:57
He was beaten up when he refused to confess that he threw stones,
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Li van pegar quan es va negar a confessar que tirava pedres
01:01
and as a result, had internal injuries
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i com a resultat d'això va patir ferides internes
01:04
that caused his death soon after he was released from prison.
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que li van causar la mort poc després de sortir de la presó.
01:08
I was angry, I was bitter,
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Estava enfadat, estava amargat,
01:12
and all I wanted was revenge.
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i l'únic que volia era venjança.
01:16
But that changed when I was 18.
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Però tot va canviar quan tenia 18 anys.
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I decided that I needed Hebrew to get a job,
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Vaig decidir que per aconseguir feina necessitava aprendre hebreu.
01:22
and going to study Hebrew in that classroom
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Quan vaig anar a estudiar hebreu, en aquella classe
01:24
was the first time I ever met Jews who were not soldiers.
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vaig conèixer per primera vegada, jueus que no eren soldats.
01:30
And we connected over really small things, like the fact that I love country music,
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Vam connectar amb petites coses, com en el fet que m'encanta la musica country,
01:34
which is really strange for Palestinians.
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cosa estranya per un palestí.
01:38
But it was then that I realized also that we have a wall of anger,
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Però, va ser aleshores, quan em vaig adonar que teniem un mur de ràbia,
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of hatred and of ignorance that separates us.
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d'odi i d'ignorància que ens separava.
01:48
I decided that it doesn't matter what happens to me.
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Vaig decidir, que el que em passi a mi no importa.
01:53
What really matters is how I deal with it.
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El que realment importa, és com ho afronto.
01:56
And therefore, I decided to dedicate my life
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Per tant, vaig decidir dedicar la meva vida
01:59
to bringing down the walls that separate people.
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a derrocar els murs que separen les persones.
02:03
I do so through many ways.
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Ho faig de diverses maneres.
02:05
Tourism is one of them, but also media and education,
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El turisme és una d'elles, però també els mitjans de comunicació i l'educació,
02:08
and you might be wondering, really, can tourism change things?
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potser us esteu preguntant, "realment pot el turisme canviar les coses?
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Can it bring down walls? Yes.
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pot derrocar murs?" Sí.
02:14
Tourism is the best sustainable way to bring down those walls
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El turisme és el millor mitjà sostenible per derrocar aquests murs
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and to create a sustainable way of connecting with each other
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i per crear una manera sostenible de connectar-nos els uns amb els altres,
02:23
and creating friendships.
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i de crear noves amistats.
02:26
In 2009, I cofounded Mejdi Tours,
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Al 2009, vaig cofundar Mejdi Tours,
02:29
a social enterprise that aims to connect people,
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una empresa social que té com a objectiu connectar la gent,
02:33
with two Jewish friends, by the way,
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amb dos amics jueus, per cert,
02:35
and what we'll do, the model we did,
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i el que farem, el model que vam crear sería
02:38
for example, in Jerusalem, we would have two tour guides,
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per exemple a Jerusalem, hi hauríen 2 guies turístics,
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one Israeli and one Palestinian, guiding the trips together,
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un israelià i un palestí que guiarien junts les visites,
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telling history and narrative and archaeology and conflict
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explicant la història, la narrativa, l'aqueologia i el conflicte
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from totally different perspectives.
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des de punts de vista totalment diferents.
02:51
I remember running a trip together with a friend named Kobi --
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Recordo quan vaig fer un viatge juntament amb el meu amic Kobi--
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Jewish congregation from Chicago, the trip was in Jerusalem --
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d'una congregació jueva de Chicago, el viatge era a Jerusalem--
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and we took them to a refugee camp, a Palestinian refugee camp,
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els vam portar a un camp de refugiats, un camp de refugiats palestins
03:00
and there we had this amazing food.
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i allà ens van donar un menjar boníssim.
03:02
By the way, this is my mother. She's cool.
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Per cert, aquesta és la meva mare. És fantàstica.
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And that's the Palestinian food called maqluba.
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Això és un plat típic palestí que es diu Maqluba.
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It means "upside-down."
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Significa "al revés".
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You cook it with rice and chicken, and you flip it upside-down.
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Es cuina amb arrós i pollastre, i després se li dóna la volta.
03:12
It's the best meal ever.
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És el millor plat que mai ha existit.
03:14
And we'll eat together.
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El vam menjar tots junts.
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Then we had a joint band, Israeli and Palestinian musicians,
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Després, vam escoltar un grup de músics israelians i palestins,
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and we did some belly-dancing.
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i vam ballar la dansa del ventre.
03:20
If you don't know any, I'll teach you later.
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Si no en sabeu, després us en puc ensenyar.
03:23
But when we left, both sides,
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Però quan vam marxar, ambdós cantons,
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they were crying because they did not want to leave.
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ploraven perquè no volien marxar.
03:29
Three years later, those relationships still exist.
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Tres anys més tard, aquestes amistats encara existeixen.
03:33
Imagine with me if the one billion people
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Imaginem junts si el bilió de persones
03:35
who travel internationally every year travel like this,
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que viatgen internacionalment cada any ho fessin d'aquesta manera,
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not being taken in the bus from one side to another,
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sense que se la portés en autobús d'un lloc a un altre,
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from one hotel to another,
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d'un hotel a un altre,
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taking pictures from the windows of their buses of people and cultures,
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fent fotografies des de la finestra de l'autobús,
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but actually connecting with people.
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sinó connectant amb la gent.
03:52
You know, I remember having a Muslim group from the U.K.
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Recordo un grup de musulmans del Regne Unit,
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going to the house of an Orthodox Jewish family,
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que va anar a la casa de una família de jueus ortodoxos,
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and having their first Friday night dinners, that Sabbath dinner,
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i en el primer sopar de la nit de divendres, el sopar de sàbat,
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and eating together hamin, which is a Jewish food, a stew,
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van menjar junts hamin, un plat jueu, un estofat,
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just having the connection of realizing, after a while,
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i van connectar quan es van adonar, al cap d'una estona,
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that a hundred years ago, their families came out
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que feia 100 anys, les seves families van venir
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of the same place in Northern Africa.
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del mateix lloc del nord d'Àfrica.
04:15
This is not a photo profile for your Facebook.
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Això no és una foto de perfil pel vostre Facebook.
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This is not disaster tourism.
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Això no és el turisme del desastre.
04:20
This is the future of travel,
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Aquest és el futur de viatjar,
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and I invite you to join me to do that, to change your travel.
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i us convido a unir-vos, a que canvieu la vostra manera de viatjar.
04:26
We're doing it all over the world now,
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Ara fem això per tot el món,
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from Ireland to Iran to Turkey,
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des d'Irlanda fins a l'Iran i Turquia.
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and we see ourselves going everywhere to change the world.
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i volem arribar a tot arreu per canviar el món.
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Thank you.
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Gràcies.
04:34
(Applause)
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(Aplaudiments)
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