Translator: Tijana Mihajlović Reviewer: Denise RQ
Hello everybody. My name is Khadija Massaoudi.
I was born and raised in Amsterdam.
I'm a writer, a TV program creator,
a theater-maker, presenter, interviewer,
and I sing about love in different languages.
For Big Questions, I went to the International School of Amsterdam,
and I spoke to some of their kids,
and I came back with a lot of great footage, I tell you.
They are amazing, authentic, they are confronting.
Everything they said was really… I mean, I was blown away.
It was really hard to make a selection, but I did.
So what you're about to see is a video of the interviews.
If you want to see more after seeing this clip,
you can go online for the longer version,
or you can come to me,
and I'll give you the long, longer, and the longest version.
So, have fun watching and thank you.
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Cara: I think that the world we live in it's troubled.
We had done a lot to kind of mess it up,
but if we all work together,
then we can make the world a much better place.
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Khadija Massoudi: What do you think is the biggest problem
right now in the world?
Solomon: Pollution and world hunger.
Oscar: My biggest fear, I think,
it's that humans will wipe each other off the face of the Earth.
Pieter: No, I don't think you should be scared;
I think you should help.
You should help people that have problems in their life,
and try to convince world leaders, like presidents and stuff,
to try stop this nonsense and this corruption.
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KM: If you were the President right now, how would you handle everything?
Meenakshi: I would say that, like, no more cars, only bicycles.
and I would say planning, and I would say more flowers.
Then, I would put for everybody solar energy,
and I would sell free ice-cream.
Maya: And I'd like to help refugees and stuff,
because not everyone's treating them like the way they want to be,
but they had to flee their country, so yeah.
Cara: I think that I might try
to raise awareness in my country
for everything that is going on,
because some people are ignorant,
and if you're ignorant, then you just…
there's nothing that you can do to help your country or the world.
Gabi: I would give food to the people who don't have food,
or the people who don't have shelter, or things that they need to survive.
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KM: What do you think about the grown ups who are leading this world?
Folasade: I don't think that they're very nice.
I mean, like, all people sometimes are nice, but...
people have choices.
So I don't really get why they chose to do this,
like pouch the animals, kill people, pollute the ocean.
I really think that they should think about what they're doing,
and see how it affects other people,
and they should have empathy
for how other people would feel if they do this.
KM: What do you need to be happy in this life?
Lukas: You need family and friends,
and then you also need like a love things, like honesty and love.
And you need friends that you can trust,
and that they help you out, and then you live a good life.
Oscar: I'm not sure if anybody can actually be...
can actually be happy, like forever.
You can be happy at one point,
and in time, but then you'll just start wanting more, and more, and more,
and wanting different things to make you more happy,
and once you've got those things,
then you'll be happy for a little while, and then want more.
So, I think humans want what they don't have.
Robbie: You could have all the money in the world,
but you can't have what I have right now,
like friends and family, because money is just a thing.
Solomon: Money is just a piece of paper which people just like.
It's just the green piece of paper.
Robbie: A thing that doesn't even make the world a better place.
Solomon: It's just money. Why not get food for free?
Your family is for free.
Robbie: Water for free.
Solomon: Water for free.
Yet, you need a green slip of paper just to get water which makes you live.
Robbie: So if I say I have 2,000 billion dollars and euros…
Solomon: That doesn't mean nothing.
Robbie: Yeah, it's just a piece of paper, piece of garbage,
and that piece of garbage is just something that nobody needs.
Solomon: Yeah. Everything should be free.
Robbie: Yeah, like water, air, oxygen, basically everything you need,
that takes care of the world and yourself,
and makes you happy has to be free, like yeah.
KM: So do you have some advice for the grown ups in this world?
Maya: Work together to make this world a better place,
and show kindness and love to other people,
because although it might not always show,
because someone might be in a bad mood,
it really does make someone just a little bit happier.
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Wooohooo!
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