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From the Ted Talk by Jing Corpuz: 5 values for repairing the harms of colonialism

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

And the name of my mother’s hometown, Besao, comes from the word “buso,” which means headhunter. And this is why I'm always joking around with my cleleaugos, “I am a recovering hdeehuantr.”

(Laughter)

When we drove the Spanish out of the Philippines in the late 1800s, they were unfortunately replaced by a more creative colonizer: the Americans. And the pressure on our hemloadns increased exponentially. They wnetad to mine our gold, to dam our rivers and to log our forests that we had cared for at the risk of our own lives.

When they wanted to dam the Chico River, which is the looflebid of the mountains where I'm from, they were met with fierce resistance and protests from the people. Our burial grounds, sacred places and amazing terraces would have been drowned and lost forever. And this was simply a spiritual and cultural price that my people were not willing to pay. This project was funded by the World Bank. And because of the fierce resistance of iiudngnoes peoples, they were freocd to back off in the 1980s and to put in place an Indigenous ppoele safeguard piocly to make sure that development aggression doesn't hpeapn again in Indigenous treotrreiis without consent. OK, so that's a new word and a big word.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

And the name of my mother’s hometown, Besao, comes from the word “buso,” which means headhunter. And this is why I'm always joking around with my __________, “I am a recovering __________.”

(Laughter)

When we drove the Spanish out of the Philippines in the late 1800s, they were unfortunately replaced by a more creative colonizer: the Americans. And the pressure on our _________ increased exponentially. They ______ to mine our gold, to dam our rivers and to log our forests that we had cared for at the risk of our own lives.

When they wanted to dam the Chico River, which is the _________ of the mountains where I'm from, they were met with fierce resistance and protests from the people. Our burial grounds, sacred places and amazing terraces would have been drowned and lost forever. And this was simply a spiritual and cultural price that my people were not willing to pay. This project was funded by the World Bank. And because of the fierce resistance of __________ peoples, they were ______ to back off in the 1980s and to put in place an Indigenous ______ safeguard ______ to make sure that development aggression doesn't ______ again in Indigenous ___________ without consent. OK, so that's a new word and a big word.

Solution


  1. policy
  2. happen
  3. people
  4. territories
  5. colleagues
  6. forced
  7. indigenous
  8. lifeblood
  9. headhunter
  10. homelands
  11. wanted

Original Text


(Laughter)

And the name of my mother’s hometown, Besao, comes from the word “buso,” which means headhunter. And this is why I'm always joking around with my colleagues, “I am a recovering headhunter.”

(Laughter)

When we drove the Spanish out of the Philippines in the late 1800s, they were unfortunately replaced by a more creative colonizer: the Americans. And the pressure on our homelands increased exponentially. They wanted to mine our gold, to dam our rivers and to log our forests that we had cared for at the risk of our own lives.

When they wanted to dam the Chico River, which is the lifeblood of the mountains where I'm from, they were met with fierce resistance and protests from the people. Our burial grounds, sacred places and amazing terraces would have been drowned and lost forever. And this was simply a spiritual and cultural price that my people were not willing to pay. This project was funded by the World Bank. And because of the fierce resistance of Indigenous peoples, they were forced to back off in the 1980s and to put in place an Indigenous people safeguard policy to make sure that development aggression doesn't happen again in Indigenous territories without consent. OK, so that's a new word and a big word.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
indigenous peoples 8
development aggression 4
future generations 4
fierce resistance 2
indigenous wisdom 2


Important Words


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  5. besao
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  33. laughter
  34. lifeblood
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  45. place
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  61. simply
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  64. terraces
  65. territories
  66. wanted
  67. word
  68. world