Stacey Kramer is a brain tumor survivor. Despite her severe experience, she considered it as a gift, because it totally made her life changed.
According to her, thanks to the tumor, she was able to feel loved so much by her family, friends, and acquaintances like never before. What is more, it made her enable to recalibrate what was important in her life. Thus, she concluded her speech by saying that when people faced with something that's unexpected and unwanted and uncertain, we should consider it just as a gift.
Actually it is only few people who can think like that during their hard time. When I suffered from infertility, which was really difficult experience for me, I just couldn't help cursing everything. I didn't want to get in touch with people and to think about my life. I couldn't study as much as I like and go out for fan. The tough time was just a tough time. Doubtlessly, it is only the person who takes an elevated view of things that can think in this way.
When do people start to learn? Most people may think it would be after birth, but the right answer is when they are in their mother's womb.
Surprisingly, fetuses literally learn many things. For example, they learn their mother's voices. This is why after their birth, they can recognize them and they prefer listening to them. Also they can acquirenot only the taste but also the smell. At the point of seventh month of a pregnancy, fetuses' gustatory and olfactory organs are fully functioning. Therefore, they can experience what their mothers eat during the gestation through umbilical cord and tend to be fond of it after birth. In short, we can say that mothers' nutritional status or conditions can affect their babies and the influence might decide their later likes and dislikes.
What made me more surprised was the fact that fetus can feel their mother's emotion as well, and they are readily influenced by that. For instance, the mother with post-traumatic stress syndrome while being pregnant can transmit their mental vulnerability to their babies.
These things indicate that mothers unconsciously teach their children about what the new world is like. In short, mothers are making them prepare in order to make them easily adapt to their new world. I think this video wants to say that the pregnancy period is a special term, it is very important, and this is why expectant mothers have to be attentive to their condition.
Proponents of the clash of civilizations are saying Islamic culture and Western one never came in contact. However, her experience was different from that. According to the speaker, people who live in Islamic religion are trying to accept Western culture, for example, music and cartoons. Surely the Islamicmusic video clip in this presentation was very similar to MTV, and so was its cartoon. Then she thought embracing of Western culture was good for Islamic people.
However, it seems one sided. It is only Islamic people that are acculturating. In fact, even though some Islamic culture can be seen in Western religions, but it is little. Moreover, it can be said not only to Islamic culture but also to other Asian cultures. For instance, Japan has been accepting a lot of Western culture like movies or foods, but not the way around. Why is it like that?
I think the reason is that Western countries has been faring well especially in economics so far. This is why their influence has been strong and a lot of Asian countries have been keen to adopt it. However, how is it going to go from now on? Now China is the second biggest power in the world and other Asian countries are trying hard to catch up with it. On the other hand, the American economic is not so good and when it comes to Europe, it is filled with a lot of anxiety. Thus, I think the time when Asian culture will dominate the world's trend will come before too long.
