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From the Ted Talk by Chetan Bhatt: Dare to refuse the origin myths that claim who you are

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What about you, now, listening to this? What about you and your identity, because you stitch your experiences and your thoughts into a continuous person moving forward in time. And this is what you are when you say, "I," "am," or "me." But this also includes all of your hopes and dreams, all of the you's that could have been, and it includes all the other pelope and the things that are in the biography of who you are. They, the others, are also a part of you, moving forward with you. Your aetuhtinc self, if such a thing exists, is a complex, messy and uncertain self, and that is a very good thing. Why not value those impurities and uncertainties? Maybe clinging to pure identities is a sign of immaturity, and ethnic, nationalist and religious tiordtinas are bad for you. Why not be skeptical about every primordial origin claim made on your behalf? Why not reject the identity mhtys that call on you to beolng, that politicians and community leaders, so-called coitnmumy leaders, palce on you? If we don't need origin stories and fixed identities, we can challenge ourselves to think citeealvry about each other and our future.

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What about you, now, listening to this? What about you and your identity, because you stitch your experiences and your thoughts into a continuous person moving forward in time. And this is what you are when you say, "I," "am," or "me." But this also includes all of your hopes and dreams, all of the you's that could have been, and it includes all the other ______ and the things that are in the biography of who you are. They, the others, are also a part of you, moving forward with you. Your _________ self, if such a thing exists, is a complex, messy and uncertain self, and that is a very good thing. Why not value those impurities and uncertainties? Maybe clinging to pure identities is a sign of immaturity, and ethnic, nationalist and religious __________ are bad for you. Why not be skeptical about every primordial origin claim made on your behalf? Why not reject the identity _____ that call on you to ______, that politicians and community leaders, so-called _________ leaders, _____ on you? If we don't need origin stories and fixed identities, we can challenge ourselves to think __________ about each other and our future.

Solution


  1. place
  2. community
  3. people
  4. myths
  5. belong
  6. creatively
  7. traditions
  8. authentic

Original Text


What about you, now, listening to this? What about you and your identity, because you stitch your experiences and your thoughts into a continuous person moving forward in time. And this is what you are when you say, "I," "am," or "me." But this also includes all of your hopes and dreams, all of the you's that could have been, and it includes all the other people and the things that are in the biography of who you are. They, the others, are also a part of you, moving forward with you. Your authentic self, if such a thing exists, is a complex, messy and uncertain self, and that is a very good thing. Why not value those impurities and uncertainties? Maybe clinging to pure identities is a sign of immaturity, and ethnic, nationalist and religious traditions are bad for you. Why not be skeptical about every primordial origin claim made on your behalf? Why not reject the identity myths that call on you to belong, that politicians and community leaders, so-called community leaders, place on you? If we don't need origin stories and fixed identities, we can challenge ourselves to think creatively about each other and our future.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
al qaeda 5
origin stories 3
identity myths 3
national front 3
muslim backgrounds 3
ethnic disputes 2
origin myth 2
primordial origin 2
origin myths 2
young men 2
islamic state 2
salafi jihadi 2
jihadi groups 2
hindu fundamentalist 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
salafi jihadi groups 2

Important Words


  1. authentic
  2. bad
  3. behalf
  4. belong
  5. biography
  6. call
  7. challenge
  8. claim
  9. clinging
  10. community
  11. complex
  12. continuous
  13. creatively
  14. dreams
  15. ethnic
  16. exists
  17. experiences
  18. fixed
  19. future
  20. good
  21. hopes
  22. identities
  23. identity
  24. immaturity
  25. impurities
  26. includes
  27. leaders
  28. listening
  29. messy
  30. moving
  31. myths
  32. nationalist
  33. origin
  34. part
  35. people
  36. person
  37. place
  38. politicians
  39. primordial
  40. pure
  41. reject
  42. religious
  43. sign
  44. skeptical
  45. stitch
  46. stories
  47. thoughts
  48. time
  49. traditions
  50. uncertain
  51. uncertainties