Safwat Saleem's 'To Mouck Or Not To Mock'

To Mock or not to Mock:
Cristian Ortiz
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To Mock or not to mock? The answer would be nothing less than a simple don’t. Mocking can ruin someone's confidence and drastically affect them especially if they have a hard time speaking for whatever circumstance. Whether they are speaking a second language or simply have problems with stuttering or any other linguistic problems, speaking from experience when I was more self-conscious it was hard enough without any jerk mentioning it. However, every now and then I still get a hard time for my accent even if I may have a better vocabulary and overall English knowledge than whoever that brings it up. However, after a couple of years, as I've become better at English, I've stopped listening to anyone who tries to mock me as similar to Safwat Saleem, an artistic, independent animator, from Pakistan, have learned to overcome those who bring up our problem.
Don’t try to be normal and change instead be yourself and ignore the rest, is the theme for Safwat Saleem’s Ted Talk (2016), “Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent.” By elaborately using Pathos and imagery, Saleem (2016) used his personal experience as a strong stand for his argument by

Things such as expecting; “a black student has spelling errors,” or “We think it is normal when a female or minority student does not succeed. And we think it is normal that a white employee is a better hire than a black employee” Saleem (2016) began to come towards a conclusion that one can accept how society sees normal which is; “normal is good, and anything outside of that very narrow definition of normal is bad.” or one can; “challenge that pre-existing notion of normal with my work and with my voice and with my accent and by standing here on stage, even though I'm scared shitless and would rather be in the