Friday, April 27, 2012

Born This Way Foundation - A Bottom-Up Movement Against Bullying

Born This Way Foundation was founded by Lady Gaga (no kidding !!); Nicholas Kristof's wrote about this couple months ago.

Lady Gaga describes her foundation as her “new love affair,” and said that, initially, she thought about focusing on a top-down crackdown on bullying. But, over time, she said, she decided instead to use her followers to start a bottom-up movement to try to make it cooler for young people to be nice.

I asked Lady Gaga if people won’t be cynical about an agenda so simple and straightforward as kindling kindness. Exceptionally articulate, she seemed for the first time at a loss for words. “That cynicism is exactly what we’re trying to change,” she finally said.

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