Who Is the We in Global Majority? | Devcon
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0:00A: So I want to connect that back to the name of the event we’re hearing today, which is the Global Majority, right? You have, I think, quite rightly pointed out that we are not alone, but whether we get that depends a lot on how we conceive of the we. Who is the we? If we’re here thinking of ourselves as 12 separate countries, right, then we’re actually kind of all alone.
0:18B: Sorry, who are we?
0:19A: If we are all in this room thinking of ourselves as like, oh, we’ve got 12 different countries, you know, like none of us separately can take on a prospective superpower, then there’s that. But if we say, hey, as Michelle says, we’re going back to the soil, right? If farmers have a solidarity with developers, with people trying to create better lives for each other, then you actually have a we that is a majority, right? So we are a majority that can happen, right? But only if we can make it a we instead of many different -- Identity is --
