Expanding Horizons | Yana Tan | TEDxYouth@SJCS | Yana Tan | TEDxYouth@SJCS

IBDP student Yana Tan compels everyone to live outside his/her comfort zone and to endlessly chase after what life has to offer.

Culture takes up a big part of one’s identity, and for Yana Tan, unfortunately, it took up all her seventeen years of existence. While she cherishes her rich and unique identity as a Chinese-Filipino, she has just recently realized how this very culture shaded her from all the things the world has to offer.

As a student of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, Yana was pushed to experience things she never could have dreamed possible—some, more uncomfortable than others. Above all, she has learned to appreciate her cultural identity while still being open to experience others’.

Chinese-Filipino Yana Tan now tries to motivate her fellow millennials to explore and be uncomfortable because ironic as it may seem, it may be the only way to discover oneself, and possibly, the world.

Culture takes up a big part of one’s identity, and for Yana Tan, unfortunately, it took up all her seventeen years of existence. While she cherishes her rich and unique identity as a Chinese-Filipino, she has just recently realized how this very culture shaded her from all the things the world has to offer.

As a student of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in Saint Jude Catholic School, Yana was pushed to experience things she never could have dreamed possible—some, more uncomfortable than others. Above all, she has learned to appreciate her cultural identity while still being open to experience others’.
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The high pitched audio made this difficult to listen to.