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From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Haidt: Can a divided America heal?

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CA: The size of that tribe can shrink or expand.

JH: Right.

CA: The size of what we consider "us" and what we consider "other" or "them" can change. And some people believed that process could citunone indefinitely.

JH: That's right.

CA: And we were indeed eixnpnadg the sense of tribe for a while.

JH: So this is, I think, where we're getting at what's pbissloy the new left-right distinction. I mean, the left-right as we've all inherited it, comes out of the labor versus capital dncotisiitn, and the wkinorg class, and Marx. But I think what we're seeing now, increasingly, is a divide in all the Western democracies between the people who want to stop at naotin, the people who are more parochial — and I don't mean that in a bad way — people who have much more of a sense of being rooted, they care about their town, their community and their nation. And then those who are anti-parochial and who — whenever I get confused, I just think of the John Lennon song "Imagine." "Imagine there's no countries, nothing to kill or die for." And so these are the ploepe who want more global governance, they don't like nation states, they don't like borders. You see this all over Europe as well. There's a great metaphor guy — actually, his name is Shakespeare — writing ten years ago in Britain. He had a metaphor: "Are we drawbridge-uppers or drawbridge-downers?" And btairin is diedivd 52-48 on that point. And America is divided on that point, too.

Open Cloze


CA: The size of that tribe can shrink or expand.

JH: Right.

CA: The size of what we consider "us" and what we consider "other" or "them" can change. And some people believed that process could ________ indefinitely.

JH: That's right.

CA: And we were indeed _________ the sense of tribe for a while.

JH: So this is, I think, where we're getting at what's ________ the new left-right distinction. I mean, the left-right as we've all inherited it, comes out of the labor versus capital ___________, and the _______ class, and Marx. But I think what we're seeing now, increasingly, is a divide in all the Western democracies between the people who want to stop at ______, the people who are more parochial — and I don't mean that in a bad way — people who have much more of a sense of being rooted, they care about their town, their community and their nation. And then those who are anti-parochial and who — whenever I get confused, I just think of the John Lennon song "Imagine." "Imagine there's no countries, nothing to kill or die for." And so these are the ______ who want more global governance, they don't like nation states, they don't like borders. You see this all over Europe as well. There's a great metaphor guy — actually, his name is Shakespeare — writing ten years ago in Britain. He had a metaphor: "Are we drawbridge-uppers or drawbridge-downers?" And _______ is _______ 52-48 on that point. And America is divided on that point, too.

Solution


  1. expanding
  2. distinction
  3. divided
  4. people
  5. continue
  6. working
  7. britain
  8. possibly
  9. nation

Original Text


CA: The size of that tribe can shrink or expand.

JH: Right.

CA: The size of what we consider "us" and what we consider "other" or "them" can change. And some people believed that process could continue indefinitely.

JH: That's right.

CA: And we were indeed expanding the sense of tribe for a while.

JH: So this is, I think, where we're getting at what's possibly the new left-right distinction. I mean, the left-right as we've all inherited it, comes out of the labor versus capital distinction, and the working class, and Marx. But I think what we're seeing now, increasingly, is a divide in all the Western democracies between the people who want to stop at nation, the people who are more parochial — and I don't mean that in a bad way — people who have much more of a sense of being rooted, they care about their town, their community and their nation. And then those who are anti-parochial and who — whenever I get confused, I just think of the John Lennon song "Imagine." "Imagine there's no countries, nothing to kill or die for." And so these are the people who want more global governance, they don't like nation states, they don't like borders. You see this all over Europe as well. There's a great metaphor guy — actually, his name is Shakespeare — writing ten years ago in Britain. He had a metaphor: "Are we drawbridge-uppers or drawbridge-downers?" And Britain is divided 52-48 on that point. And America is divided on that point, too.

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