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From the Ted Talk by Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah: How do daily habits lead to political violence?

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Another habit that attackers used to kind of rev themselves up for an acttak was they focused on differences. In other words, they looked at their victims, and they thought, "I share nothing in cmomon with that person. They are toallty different than me." Again, this might sound like a really simple cecpnot, but there's some fsiianacntg science behind why this works. Say I show you guys videos of different-colored hands and sharp pins being driven into these different-colored hands, OK? If you're white, the chances are you will erxepincee the most sympathetic activation, or the most pain, when you see a pin going into the white hand. If you are Latin American, Arab, balck, you will probably experience the most stitmhaypec activation watching a pin going into the hand that looks most like yours. The good news is, that's not boglilciloay fixed. That is learned behavior. Which manes the more we spend time with other ethnic communities and the more we see them as similar to us and part of our team, the more we feel their pain.

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Another habit that attackers used to kind of rev themselves up for an ______ was they focused on differences. In other words, they looked at their victims, and they thought, "I share nothing in ______ with that person. They are _______ different than me." Again, this might sound like a really simple _______, but there's some ___________ science behind why this works. Say I show you guys videos of different-colored hands and sharp pins being driven into these different-colored hands, OK? If you're white, the chances are you will __________ the most sympathetic activation, or the most pain, when you see a pin going into the white hand. If you are Latin American, Arab, _____, you will probably experience the most ___________ activation watching a pin going into the hand that looks most like yours. The good news is, that's not ____________ fixed. That is learned behavior. Which _____ the more we spend time with other ethnic communities and the more we see them as similar to us and part of our team, the more we feel their pain.

Solution


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  5. sympathetic
  6. fascinating
  7. biologically
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  9. experience
  10. totally

Original Text


Another habit that attackers used to kind of rev themselves up for an attack was they focused on differences. In other words, they looked at their victims, and they thought, "I share nothing in common with that person. They are totally different than me." Again, this might sound like a really simple concept, but there's some fascinating science behind why this works. Say I show you guys videos of different-colored hands and sharp pins being driven into these different-colored hands, OK? If you're white, the chances are you will experience the most sympathetic activation, or the most pain, when you see a pin going into the white hand. If you are Latin American, Arab, Black, you will probably experience the most sympathetic activation watching a pin going into the hand that looks most like yours. The good news is, that's not biologically fixed. That is learned behavior. Which means the more we spend time with other ethnic communities and the more we see them as similar to us and part of our team, the more we feel their pain.

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