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So, imagine you're standing on a street anywhere in America

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and a Japanese man comes up to you and says,
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"Excuse me, what is the name of this block?"
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And you say, "I'm sorry, well, this is Oak Street, that's Elm Street.
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This is 26th, that's 27th."
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He says, "OK, but what is the name of that block?"
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You say, "Well, blocks don't have names.
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Streets have names; blocks are just the
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unnamed spaces in between streets."
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He leaves, a little confused and disappointed.
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So, now imagine you're standing on a street, anywhere in Japan,
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you turn to a person next to you and say,
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"Excuse me, what is the name of this street?"
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They say, "Oh, well that's Block 17 and this is Block 16."
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And you say, "OK, but what is the name of this street?"
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And they say, "Well, streets don't have names.
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Blocks have names.
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Just look at Google Maps here. There's Block 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
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All of these blocks have names,
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and the streets are just the unnamed spaces in between the blocks.
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And you say then, "OK, then how do you know your home address?"
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He said, "Well, easy, this is District Eight.
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There's Block 17, house number one."
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You say, "OK, but walking around the neighborhood,
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I noticed that the house numbers don't go in order."
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He says, "Of course they do. They go in the order in which they were built.
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The first house ever built on a block is house number one.
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The second house ever built is house number two.
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Third is house number three. It's easy. It's obvious."
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 So, I love that sometimes we need to
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go to the opposite side of the world
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to realize assumptions we didn't even know we had,
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and realize that the opposite of them may also be true.
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So, for example, there are doctors in China
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who believe that it's their job to keep you healthy.
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So, any month you are healthy you pay them,
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and when you're sick you don't have to pay them because they failed
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at their job. They get rich when you're healthy, not sick.
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(Applause)
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In most music, we think of the "one"
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as the downbeat, the beginning of the musical phrase: one, two, three, four.
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But in West African music, the "one"
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is thought of as the end of the phrase,
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like the period at the end of a sentence.
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So, you can hear it not just in the phrasing, but the way they count off their
music:
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two, three, four, one.
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And this map is also accurate.
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(Laughter)
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There's a saying that whatever true thing you can say about India,
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the opposite is also true.
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So, let's never forget, whether at TED, or anywhere else,
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that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear,
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that the opposite may also be true.
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Domo arigato gozaimashita.

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