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From the Ted Talk by Olivia Vinckier: A colorful case for outside-the-box thinking on identity

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And that number, in America, is rildpay growing each year. In the last 10 yaers, there was a 276-percent increase of multiracial-identifying individuals. At some point in the future, there will be more people choosing "other" than the handful of given boxes on those surveys. Though this everexpanding ribanow is a buuietfal thing, having all of those people have to categorize themselves as "other" in society is not. That's why I introduce a new idea of racial categorization in the form of an open-ended question. It would recognize a spectrum that's lacking in our world today. One study, done by stiincest Alicia Tran and others, showed that an open-ended question provided an experience once deepirvd when being asked about race with only a few options. An open-ended question would give people an opportunity to express pride in their murilaciatl bkrdacngous.

Open Cloze


And that number, in America, is _______ growing each year. In the last 10 _____, there was a 276-percent increase of multiracial-identifying individuals. At some point in the future, there will be more people choosing "other" than the handful of given boxes on those surveys. Though this everexpanding _______ is a _________ thing, having all of those people have to categorize themselves as "other" in society is not. That's why I introduce a new idea of racial categorization in the form of an open-ended question. It would recognize a spectrum that's lacking in our world today. One study, done by _________ Alicia Tran and others, showed that an open-ended question provided an experience once ________ when being asked about race with only a few options. An open-ended question would give people an opportunity to express pride in their ___________ ___________.

Solution


  1. beautiful
  2. backgrounds
  3. years
  4. scientist
  5. deprived
  6. multiracial
  7. rapidly
  8. rainbow

Original Text


And that number, in America, is rapidly growing each year. In the last 10 years, there was a 276-percent increase of multiracial-identifying individuals. At some point in the future, there will be more people choosing "other" than the handful of given boxes on those surveys. Though this everexpanding rainbow is a beautiful thing, having all of those people have to categorize themselves as "other" in society is not. That's why I introduce a new idea of racial categorization in the form of an open-ended question. It would recognize a spectrum that's lacking in our world today. One study, done by scientist Alicia Tran and others, showed that an open-ended question provided an experience once deprived when being asked about race with only a few options. An open-ended question would give people an opportunity to express pride in their multiracial backgrounds.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
multiracial people 2


Important Words


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