America’s Forgotten Working Class | J.D. Vance | TED

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I remember the very first time I went to a nice restaurant,

Sećam se kada sam prvi put išao u fini restoran,

a really nice restaurant.

veoma fini restoran.

It was for a law firm recruitment dinner,

Bilo je to radi večere zbog zapošljavanja u advokatskoj kancelariji

and I remember beforehand the waitress walked around

i sećam se da je konobarica prethodno šetala unaokolo

and asked whether we wanted some wine,

i pitala da li bismo hteli vina,

so I said, "Sure, I'll take some white wine."

pa sam rekao: „Može, popiću malo belog vina.“

And she immediately said,

Odmah je pitala:

"Would you like sauvignon blanc or chardonnay?"

„Da li biste hteli sovinjon blank ili šardone?“

And I remember thinking,

Sećam se da sam pomislio:

"Come on, lady, stop with the fancy French words

„Daj, gospođice, prestani sa kitnjastim francuskim rečima

and just give me some white wine."

i samo mi donesi malo belog vina.“

But I used my powers of deduction

Ipak, upotrebio sam svoju moć logike

and recognized that chardonnay and sauvignon blanc

i uvideo da su šardone i sovinjon blank

were two separate types of white wine,

dve različite vrste belog vina,

and so I told her that I would take the chardonnay,

pa sam joj rekao da hoću šardone,

because frankly that was the easiest one to pronounce for me.

jer mi je to, iskreno, bilo najlakše da izgovorim.

So I had a lot of experiences like that

Imao sam mnogo takvih iskustava

during my first couple of years as a law student at Yale,

tokom prvih par godina studiranja prava na Jejlu,

because, despite all outward appearances, I'm a cultural outsider.

jer, uprkos spoljašnjem izgledu, ja sam kulturalni autsajder.

I didn't come from the elites.

Nemam elitno poreklo.

I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco.

Ne potičem sa severoistoka ili iz San Franciska.

I came from a southern Ohio steel town,

Potičem iz grada sa čeličanom iz južnog Ohaja

and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways,

i to je gradić koji se baš muči na mnogo načina

koji ukazuju na šire borbe

ways that are indicative of the broader struggles

of America's working class.

američke radničke klase.

Heroin has moved in,

Heroin se doselio

killing a lot of people, people I know.

i ubio mnogo ljudi koje poznajem.

Family violence, domestic violence, and divorce have torn apart families.

Nasilje u porodici i razvodi su rasturili porodice.

And there's a very unique sense of pessimism that's moved in.

Postoji jedinstveni utisak pesimizma koji se tu uselio.

Think about rising mortality rates in these communities

Razmislite o porastu stope smrtnosti u ovim zajednicama

and recognize that for a lot of these folks,

i uočite da, za mnoge od tih ljudi,

the problems that they're seeing

problemi koje vide

are actually causing rising death rates in their own communities,

zapravo uzrokuju stope smrti koje rastu u njihovim zajednicama,

so there's a very real sense of struggle.

tako da je prisutan veoma realan utisak borbe.

I had a very front-row seat to that struggle.

Imao sam mesto u prvom redu te borbe.

My family has been part of that struggle for a very long time.

Moja porodica je dugo bila deo te borbe.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

Potičem iz porodice koja nema mnogo novca.

The addiction that plagued my community

Zavisnost koja je napala moju zajednicu

also plagued my family, and even, sadly, my own mom.

takođe je napala i moju porodicu, pa čak i, nažalost, moju mamu.

There were a lot of problems that I saw in my own family,

Bilo je mnogo problema koje sam video u svojoj porodici,

problems caused sometimes by a lack of money,

problema koje je ponekad uzrokovao nedostatak novca,

problems caused sometimes by a lack of access to resources and social capital

ponekad nedostatak sredstava i društvenog kapitala,

that really affected my life.

što je zaista uticalo na moj život.

If you had looked at my life when I was 14 years old

Da ste sagledali moj život kada sam imao 14 godina i zapitali se:

and said, "Well, what's going to happen to this kid?"

„Šta će se dogoditi sa ovim detetom?“,

you would have concluded that I would have struggled

zaključili biste da ću se boriti

with what academics call upward mobility.

sa onim što akademici zovu društvena pokretljivost.

So upward mobility is an abstract term,

Društvena pokretljivost je apstraktan termin,

but it strikes at something that's very core

ali pogađa nešto što je u samoj srži,

at the heart of the American Dream.

u srcu američkog sna.

To je taj neki osećaj,

It's the sense,

and it measures whether kids like me

a meri da li će deca poput mene

who grow up in poor communities are going to live a better life,

koja odrastu u siromašnim zajednicama živeti boljim životom,

bilo da li će imati priliku da bolje žive materijalno

whether they're going to have a chance to live a materially better existence,

or whether they're going to stay in the circumstances where they came from.

ili da li će ostati u okolnostima iz kojih su potekli.

Jedna od stvari koje smo saznali, nažalost,

And one of the things we've learned, unfortunately,

is that upward mobility isn't as high as we'd like it to be in this country,

je da društvena pokretljivost nije tako visoka

kao što bismo to hteli u ovoj zemlji

and interestingly, it's very geographically distributed.

i, što je zanimljivo, izrazito je geografski raspodeljena.

So take Utah, for instance.

Uzmite Jutu, na primer.

In Utah a poor kid is actually doing OK,

U Juti siromašnom detetu zapravo dobro ide

very likely to live their share and their part in the American Dream.

i vrlo je verovatno da će doživeti da dobiju svoj deo američkog sna.

But if you think of where I'm from,

Međutim, ako pomislite na mesto odakle sam ja,

in the South, in Appalachia, in southern Ohio,

na jugu, u Apalačiji, u južnom Ohaju,

it's very unlikely that kids like that will rise.

vrlo je malo verovatno da će se tamošnja deca uzdići.

The American Dream in those parts of the country

Američki san u tim delovima zemlje

is in a very real sense just a dream.

je u pravom smislu samo san.

So why is that happening?

Zašto se to dešava?

So one reason is obviously economic or structural.

Jedan od razloga je očigledno ekonomski ili strukturalni,

So you think of these areas.

tako da pomišljate na te oblasti.

They're beset by these terrible economic trends,

Opterećene su ovim užasnim ekonomskim trendovima,

built around industries like coal and steel

izgrađene oko industrija kao što su ugalj i čelik

that make it harder for folks to get ahead.

koje otežavaju ljudima da napreduju.

That's certainly one problem.

To je svakako jedan od problema.

There's also the problem of brain drain, where the really talented people,

Takođe postoji problem odliva mozgova, gde veoma talentovani ljudi,

because they can't find high-skilled work at home,

pošto ne mogu da pronađu visoko kvalifikovani posao kod kuće,

end up moving elsewhere,

na kraju završe negde drugde,

so they don't build a business or non-profit where they're from,

tako da ne osnuju posao ili neprofitnu organizaciju

tamo odakle su,

they end up going elsewhere and taking their talents with them.

već završe negde drugde i ponesu svoje talente sa sobom.

There are failing schools in a lot of these communities,

U ovim zajednicama postoji mnogo neuspešnih škola

failing to give kids the educational leg up

koje ne daju deci obrazovni podstrek

that really makes it possible for kids to have opportunities later in life.

koji bi im omogućio da kasnije u životu imaju mogućnosti.

Sve te stvari su važne.

These things are all important.

Ne mislim da umanjim značaj tih strukturalnih prepreka.

I don't mean to discount these structural barriers.

Međutim, kada se osvrnem na svoj život i svoju zajednicu,

But when I look back at my life and my community,

something else was going on, something else mattered.

nešto drugo se dešavalo, nešto drugo je bilo bitno.

It's difficult to quantify, but it was no less real.

Teško je to izraziti, ali nije bilo ništa manje stvarno.

So for starters, there was a very real sense of hopelessness

Za početak, postojao je veoma stvaran osećaj beznađa

in the community that I grew up in.

u zajednici u kojoj sam odrastao.

There was a sense that kids had that their choices didn't matter.

Deca su imala utisak da njihovi izbori nisu važni.

No matter what happened, no matter how hard they worked,

Bez obzira na to šta se dogodi, koliko god da naporno rade,

no matter how hard they tried to get ahead,

koliko god se upinjali da napreduju,

nothing good would happen.

ništa dobro se neće desiti.

So that's a tough feeling to grow up around.

Teško je odrastati uz tako težak osećaj.

That's a tough mindset to penetrate,

Teško je prodreti u takav mentalni sklop

and it leads sometimes to very conspiratorial places.

i on ponekad dovodi do vrlo zavereničkih mesta.

So let's just take one political issue that's pretty hot,

Hajde da uzmemo jednu političku temu koja je prilično aktuelna,

affirmative action.

afirmativnu akciju.

So depending on your politics, you might think that affirmative action

U zavisnosti od vaše politike, možete misliti da je afirmativna akcija

is either a wise or an unwise way to promote diversity in the workplace

mudar ili glup način da se podstiče raznolikost na radnom mestu

or the classroom.

ili u učionici.

But if you grow up in an area like this,

Međutim, ako odrastate u ovakvoj oblasti,

you see affirmative action as a tool to hold people like you back.

vidite afirmativnu akciju kao sredstvo za sputavanje ljudi poput vas.

That's especially true if you're a member of the white working class.

To pogotovo važi ako ste član bele radničke klase.

You see it as something that isn't just about good or bad policy.

Vidite je kao nešto što nije samo dobra ili loša politika.

You see it as something that's actively conspiring,

Vidite je kao nešto gde se aktivno kuje zavera,

where people with political and financial power

gde ljudi sa političkom i finansijskom moći

are working against you.

rade protiv vas.

And there are a lot of ways that you see that conspiracy against you --

Postoji mnogo načina na koje vidite tu zaveru protiv vas -

perceived, real, but it's there,

doživljenu, stvarnu, ali tu je

and it warps expectations.

i izopačava očekivanja.

Ako razmišljate o tome šta ćete raditi kada odrastete u tom svetu,

So if you think about what do you do when you grow up in that world,

you can respond in a couple of ways.

možete odgovoriti na par načina.

Kao prvo, možete reći: „Neću naporno raditi,

One, you can say, "I'm not going to work hard,

jer koliko god naporno radio, to neće biti bitno.“

because no matter how hard I work, it's not going to matter."

Druga stvar koju možete reći je:

Another thing you might do is say,

"Well, I'm not going to go after the traditional markers of success,

„Pa, neću krenuti putem tradicionalnih pokazatelja uspeha

kao što su fakultetsko obrazovanje ili prestižan posao,

like a university education or a prestigious job,

because the people who care about those things are unlike me.

jer ljudi kojima je stalo do tih stvari nisu kao ja.

Nikada mi neće dozvoliti pristup.“

They're never going to let me in."

Kada su me primili na Jejl, član porodice me je pitao

When I got admitted to Yale, a family member asked me

if I had pretended to be a liberal to get by the admissions committee.

da li sam se pretvarao da sam liberal da bih prošao na komisiji za upis.

Seriously.

Ozbiljno.

And it's obviously not the case that there was a liberal box to check

Očigledno da ne postoji opcija

koju treba štiklirati na aplikaciji ako ste liberal,

on the application,

but it speaks to a very real insecurity in these places

ali to govori o stvarnoj nesigurnosti na ovakvim mestima,

that you have to pretend to be somebody you're not

da morate da se pretvarate da ste neko ko niste

to get past these various social barriers.

da biste prebrodili razne društvene prepreke.

It's a very significant problem.

To je veoma značajan problem.

Even if you don't give in to that hopelessness,

Čak i ako se ne prepustite tom beznađu,

even if you think, let's say,

čak i ako mislite, recimo,

that your choices matter and you want to make the good choices,

da su vaše odluke bitne i da želite da donosite dobre odluke,

you want to do better for yourself and for your family,

želite da učinite bolje za sebe i svoju porodicu,

it's sometimes hard to even know what those choices are

ponekad je teško uopšte znati koje su to odluke

when you grow up in a community like I did.

kada odrastate u zajednici kao mojoj.

I didn't know, for example,

Nisam znao, na primer,

that you had to go to law school to be a lawyer.

da morate da idete na pravni fakultet da biste postali advokat.

I didn't know that elite universities, as research consistently tells us,

Nisam znao da su elitni univerziteti, kako nam istraživanje stalno poručuje,

are cheaper for low-income kids

jeftiniji za siromašnu decu

because these universities have bigger endowments,

jer ti univerziteti imaju veće zadužbine

can offer more generous financial aid.

i mogu da ponude izdašniju finansijsku pomoć.

I remember I learned this

Sećam se da sam ovo saznao

when I got the financial aid letter from Yale for myself,

kada sam dobio pismo sa Jejla o finansijskoj pomoći,

tens of thousands of dollars in need-based aid,

desetine hiljada dolara radi pomoći u slučaju nužde,

which is a term I had never heard before.

što je termin koji nikada pre nisam čuo.

But I turned to my aunt when I got that letter and said,

Okrenuo sam se ka svojoj tetki kada sam dobio to pismo i rekao:

"You know, I think this just means that for the first time in my life,

„Znaš, mislim da ovo znači da se po prvi put u mom životu

being poor has paid really well."

dobro isplatilo biti siromašan.“

So I didn't have access to that information

Nisam imao pristup toj informaciji

because the social networks around me didn't have access to that information.

jer društvene mreže oko mene nisu imale pristup toj informaciji.

I learned from my community how to shoot a gun, how to shoot it well.

Naučio sam od svog okruženja kako da pucam iz puške, i to dobro.

I learned how to make a damn good biscuit recipe.

Naučio sam kako da napravim strašno dobre pogačice.

The trick, by the way, is frozen butter, not warm butter.

Trik je, inače, u smrznutom, a ne u toplom puteru.

But I didn't learn how to get ahead.

Međutim, nisam znao kako da napredujem.

I didn't learn how to make the good decisions

Nisam znao kako da donosim dobre odluke

about education and opportunity

o obrazovanju i mogućnostima

that you need to make

koje treba da donosite

to actually have a chance in this 21st century knowledge economy.

da biste uopšte imali nekakve šanse u ekonomiji znanja 21. veka.

Economists call the value that we gain from our informal networks,

Ekonomisti nazivaju vrednost koju dobijamo od naših neformalnih mreža,

from our friends and colleagues and family "social capital."

od prijatelja, kolega i porodice „društveni kapital“.

The social capital that I had wasn't built for 21st century America,

Društveni kapital koji sam ja imao nije bio napravljen za Ameriku 21. veka,

and it showed.

a to se i videlo.

There's something else that's really important that's going on

Postoji još nešto što se dešava i što je veoma značajno,

that our community doesn't like to talk about,

a o čemu naša zajednica ne voli da govori,

but it's very real.

ali je veoma stvarno.

Deca iz radničke klase imaju mnogo veće izglede

Working-class kids are much more likely

da se suoče sa onim što se zove nepovoljna iskustva u detinjstvu,

to face what's called adverse childhood experiences,

which is just a fancy word for childhood trauma:

što je samo otmena reč za traume u detinstvu,

getting hit or yelled at, put down by a parent repeatedly,

dobijanje batina i vikanje, višestruko kritikovanje roditelja,

watching someone hit or beat your parent,

gledanje nekog kako udara ili bije vašeg roditelja,

watching someone do drugs or abuse alcohol.

gledanje nekog dok koristi droge ili zloupotrebljava alkohol.

These are all instances of childhood trauma,

To su sve primeri trauma iz detinjstva

and they're pretty commonplace in my family.

i prilično su učestali u mojoj porodici.

Importantly, they're not just commonplace in my family right now.

Što je važno, nisu samo učestali u mojoj porodici danas.

They're also multigenerational.

Takođe su višegeneracijski.

So my grandparents,

Tako su moji deda i baba,

the very first time that they had kids,

kada su prvi put dobili decu,

they expected that they were going to raise them in a way

očekivali da će ih odgajati na način

koji je jedinstveno dobar.

that was uniquely good.

They were middle class,

Pripadali su srednjoj klasi

they were able to earn a good wage in a steel mill.

i mogli su da zarade dobru platu u čeličani.

But what ended up happening

Međutim, na kraju se desilo

is that they exposed their kids to a lot of the childhood trauma

da su izložili svoju decu mnogim traumama u detinjstvu

that had gone back many generations.

koje potiču više generacija unazad.

My mom was 12 when she saw my grandma set my grandfather on fire.

Moja mama je imala 12 godina kada je videla da je baka zapalila dedu.

His crime was that he came home drunk

Njegova krivica je bila u tome što je došao kući pijan

after she told him,

nakon što mu je ona rekla:

"If you come home drunk, I'm gonna kill you."

„Ako dođeš kući pijan, ubiću te.“

And she tried to do it.

Pokušala je da to uradi.

Think about the way that that affects a child's mind.

Pomislite kako to utiče na um deteta.

And we think of these things as especially rare,

Mi razmišljamo o takvim stvarima kao naročito retkim,

but a study by the Wisconsin Children's Trust Fund found

ali je studija Povereničkog fonda za decu u Viskonsinu otkrila

that 40 percent of low-income kids face multiple instances of childhood trauma,

da se 40 posto siromašne dece suočava sa više slučajeva traume u detinjstvu,

compared to only 29 percent for upper-income kids.

u poređenju sa svega 29 posto dece u porodicama sa većim primanjima.

And think about what that really means.

Razmislite o tome šta to u stvari znači.

If you're a low-income kid,

Ako ste siromašno dete,

almost half of you face multiple instances of childhood trauma.

skoro polovina vas se suočava sa više slučajeva traume u detinjstvu.

This is not an isolated problem.

To nije izolovani problem.

This is a very significant issue.

Ovo je vrlo značajan problem.

We know what happens to the kids who experience that life.

Znamo šta se dešava sa decom koja osete takav život.

They're more likely to do drugs, more likely to go to jail,

Veće su šanse da koriste droge, da odu u zatvor,

more likely to drop out of high school,

da napuste srednju školu,

and most importantly,

a što je najvažnije,

they're more likely to do to their children

verovatnije je da će raditi svojoj deci

what their parents did to them.

ono što su njihovi roditelji radili njima.

This trauma, this chaos in the home,

Ova trauma, ovaj haos kod kuće,

is our culture's very worst gift to our children,

predstavlja najgori dar naše kulture za našu decu,

and it's a gift that keeps on giving.

a to je dar koji neprekidno daruje.

So you combine all that,

Dakle, spojite sve to,

the hopelessness, the despair,

beznadežnost, očaj,

the cynicism about the future,

cinizam po pitanju budućnosti,

the childhood trauma,

traume u detinjstvu,

the low social capital,

nizak društveni kapital,

and you begin to understand why me,

i počećete da razumete zašto sam,

at the age of 14,

sa 14 godina,

bio spreman da postanem samo još jedan statistički podatak,

was ready to become just another statistic,

another kid who failed to beat the odds.

još jedno dete koje nije uspelo da pobedi verovatnoću.

But something unexpected happened.

Ipak, nešto neočekivano se dogodilo.

I did beat the odds.

Jesam pobedio verovatnoću.

Things turned up for me.

Neke stvari su mi se dogodile.

I graduated from high school, from college, I went to law school,

Završio sam srednju školu i fakultet, otišao na prava,

and I have a pretty good job now.

a sada imam prilično dobar posao.

So what happened?

Šta se dogodilo?

Well, one thing that happened is that my grandparents,

Pa, jedna stvar koja se desila je da su se moji deda i baba,

the same grandparents of setting someone on fire fame,

isti deda i baba poznati po paljenju,

they really shaped up by the time I came around.

zaista doveli u red u vreme kada sam ja došao.

They provided me a stable home,

Pružili su mi stabilan dom,

a stable family.

stabilnu porodicu.

They made sure

Postarali su se da,

that when my parents weren't able to do the things that kids need,

kada moji roditelji nisu mogli da rade stvari koje su deci bile potrebne,

they stepped in and filled that role.

priskoče i ispune tu ulogu.

My grandma especially did two things that really matter.

Moja baka je pogotovo radila dve stvari koje su zaista važne.

One, she provided that peaceful home that allowed me to focus on homework

Prvo, pružila mi je miran dom koji mi je omogućio da se usredsredim

na domaće zadatke i stvari na koje deca treba da budu usredsređena.

and the things that kids should be focused on.

But she was also this incredibly perceptive woman,

Takođe je bila žena sa neverovatnim zapažanjem,

uprkos tome da nije završila ni osnovnu školu.

despite not even having a middle school education.

She recognized the message that my community had for me,

Prepoznala je poruku koju je moja zajednica imala za mene,

that my choices didn't matter,

da moje odluke nisu bitne,

that the deck was stacked against me.

da su mi podeljene loše karte.

Jednom mi je rekla:

She once told me,

„Džej Di, nikada nemoj biti kao oni gubitnici

"JD, never be like those losers who think the deck is stacked against them.

koji misle da su im podeljene loše karte.

You can do anything you want to."

Možeš biti šta god poželiš.“

And yet she recognized that life wasn't fair.

A opet, priznala je da život nije fer.

It's hard to strike that balance,

Teško je postići tu ravnotežu,

to tell a kid that life isn't fair,

reći detetu da život nije fer,

but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.

a takođe uvažiti i potkrepiti u njemu realnost da su njegove odluke bitne.

But mamaw was able to strike that balance.

Ipak, nana je umela da ostvari tu ravnotežu.

Druga stvar koja je zaista pomogla je Korpus marinaca SAD-a.

The other thing that really helped was the United States Marine Corps.

Zamišljamo Korpus marinaca kao vojnu skupinu, što i jeste, naravno,

So we think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is,

ali je za mene Korpus marinaca SAD-a bio četvorogodišnji intenzivni kurs

but for me, the US Marine Corps was a four-year crash course

in character education.

za obrazovanje karaktera.

Naučio me je kako da namestim krevet, kako da operem veš,

It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry,

how to wake up early, how to manage my finances.

da se probudim rano, da upravljam finansijama.

These are things my community didn't teach me.

To su stvari kojima me nije naučila moja zajednica.

I remember when I went to go buy a car for the very first time,

Sećam se kada sam prvi put otišao da kupim auto.

I was offered a dealer's low, low interest rate of 21.9 percent,

Ponudili su mi veoma nisku kamatnu stopu za trgovca od 21,9 posto

and I was ready to sign on the dotted line.

i bio sam spreman da se potpišem na isprekidanoj liniji.

But I didn't take that deal,

Ipak, nisam prihvatio tu ponudu,

because I went and took it to my officer

jer sam je odneo svom oficiru koji mi je rekao:

who told me, "Stop being an idiot,

„Prestani da budeš idiot,

go to the local credit union, and get a better deal."

idi u lokalnu kreditnu uniju i uzmi bolju ponudu.“

And so that's what I did.

To sam i uradio.

But without the Marine Corps,

Međutim, bez Korpusa marinaca, nikada ne bih imao pristup tom znanju.

I would have never had access to that knowledge.

Doživeo bih finansijsku propast, iskreno.

I would have had a financial calamity, frankly.

The last thing I want to say is that I had a lot of good fortune

Poslednje što želim da kažem je da sam imao mnogo sreće

in the mentors and people

sa mentorima i ljudima

who have played an important role in my life.

koji su igrali važnu ulogu u mom životu.

From the Marines, from Ohio State, from Yale,

Iz Marinaca, iz države Ohaja, sa Jejla,

from other places,

sa drugih mesta,

people have really stepped in

ljudi su zaista priskočili

and ensured that they filled that social capital gap

i postarali se da ispune tu prazninu društvenog kapitala

that it was pretty obvious, apparently, that I had.

za koju je bilo prilično očigledno, izgleda, da sam je imao.

That comes from good fortune,

To dolazi uz sreću,

but a lot of children aren't going to have that good fortune,

ali mnogo dece neće imati takvu sreću,

and I think that raises really important questions for all of us

a mislim da to pokreće veoma važna pitanja za sve nas

about how we're going to change that.

o tome kako ćemo to promeniti.

We need to ask questions about how we're going to give low-income kids

Moramo da postavimo pitanje kako ćemo siromašnoj deci

who come from a broken home access to a loving home.

koja potiču iz razjedinjenih domova dati pristup domu punom ljubavi.

We need to ask questions

Moramo da postavimo pitanje

about how we're going to teach low-income parents

o tome kako ćemo naučiti siromašne roditelje

how to better interact with their children,

da ostvaruju bolju interakciju sa svojom decom

with their partners.

i sa svojim partnerima.

We need to ask questions about how we give social capital,

Treba da postavimo pitanje kako dajemo društveni kapital,

mentorship to low-income kids who don't have it.

mentorstvo siromašnoj deci koja ga nemaju.

We need to think about how we teach working class children

Potrebno je da razmišljamo o tome kako podučavamo decu radničke klase

about not just hard skills,

ne samo „tvrdim“ veštinama

like reading, mathematics,

kao što su čitanje i matematika,

but also soft skills,

već i „mekim“ veštinama

like conflict resolution and financial management.

kao što su rešavanje konflikata i finansijsko upravljanje.

Now, I don't have all of the answers.

Ja nemam sve odgovore.

I don't know all of the solutions to this problem,

Ne znam sva rešenja za ovaj problem,

but I do know this:

ali ovo znam -

in southern Ohio right now,

u južnom Ohaju ovog trenutka

there's a kid who is anxiously awaiting their dad,

postoji dete koje zabrinuto čeka tatu,

wondering whether, when he comes through the door,

pitajući se da li će, kada uđe na ta vrata,

he'll walk calmly or stumble drunkly.

ući mirno ili će se pijano teturati.

There's a kid

Postoji dete

whose mom sticks a needle in her arm

čija mama zabada iglu u ruku

and passes out,

i pada u nesvest,

and he doesn't know why she doesn't cook him dinner,

a on ne zna zašto mu nije skuvala večeru

and he goes to bed hungry that night.

i te noći odlazi gladan u krevet.

There's a kid who has no hope for the future

Tamo je dete koje nema nadu u budućnost,

but desperately wants to live a better life.

ali očajnički želi da živi boljim životom.

They just want somebody to show it to them.

Samo žele da mu ga neko pokaže.

I don't have all the answers,

Nemam sve odgovore,

but I know that unless our society starts asking better questions

ali znam da, ako naše društvo ne počne da postavlja bolja pitanja

about why I was so lucky

o tome zašto sam ja imao toliko sreće

and about how to get that luck to more of our communities

i kako da pružimo tu sreću većem broju naših zajednica

and our country's children,

i deci u našoj zemlji,

we're going to continue to have a very significant problem.

nastavićemo da imamo vrlo značajan problem.

Thank you.

Hvala.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)