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Everyone sometimes doesn’t understand what is going on, can’t find a way in, and everyone in that situation has impulses to retreat and to growl. Gibberish takes the point of view of the newcomer, the non-native speaker. One of the virtues of this presentation is that many people will say: yes, that’s what it was like – when I started school; the first day of my new job; when I first opened the chemistry book; when I landed in Vienna; as the first person in my family to go to college; when I started playing violin. And that common topic invites philosophically interesting strategizing: how does one find one’s way into a bewildering situation? What does one do with the upwelling feeling of having fallen into a vat of monsters? There are also great strategy questions from the other side: as a sympathetic insider, how does one diminish strangeness, find bravery to confront one’s discomfort, find common things, begin to put the common world in order?

Publication Date

2024

Publisher

Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children

City

Montclair

Keywords

immigration, language, insecurity, friendship

Disciplines

Early Childhood Education | Education | Philosophy

<em>Gibberish</em> (2022) by Young Vo

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