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From the Ted Talk by Alexander Betts: Our refugee system is failing. Here's how we can fix it

Unscramble the Blue Letters


What are we doing? How has the situation come to this, that we've adopted such an imnhnuae response to a humanitarian csiris?

I don't believe it's because people don't care, or at least I don't want to believe it's because people don't care. I believe it's because our politicians lack a vision, a vosiin for how to apdat an international refugee system created over 50 years ago for a changing and gzllabeiod world. And so what I want to do is take a step back and ask two really fundamental questions, the two questions we all need to ask. First, why is the current system not working? And second, what can we do to fix it?

Open Cloze


What are we doing? How has the situation come to this, that we've adopted such an ________ response to a humanitarian ______?

I don't believe it's because people don't care, or at least I don't want to believe it's because people don't care. I believe it's because our politicians lack a vision, a ______ for how to _____ an international refugee system created over 50 years ago for a changing and __________ world. And so what I want to do is take a step back and ask two really fundamental questions, the two questions we all need to ask. First, why is the current system not working? And second, what can we do to fix it?

Solution


  1. vision
  2. globalized
  3. crisis
  4. adapt
  5. inhumane

Original Text


What are we doing? How has the situation come to this, that we've adopted such an inhumane response to a humanitarian crisis?

I don't believe it's because people don't care, or at least I don't want to believe it's because people don't care. I believe it's because our politicians lack a vision, a vision for how to adapt an international refugee system created over 50 years ago for a changing and globalized world. And so what I want to do is take a step back and ask two really fundamental questions, the two questions we all need to ask. First, why is the current system not working? And second, what can we do to fix it?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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seek asylum 4
refugee regime 3
host countries 3
host country 3
refugee status 3
international refugee 2
current system 2
impossible choice 2
zaatari refugee 2
urban destitution 2
dangerous journeys 2
choice set 2
human beings 2
give refugees 2
development strategy 2
budget airline 2
greek islands 2
claim refugee 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
claim refugee status 2

Important Words


  1. adapt
  2. adopted
  3. care
  4. changing
  5. created
  6. crisis
  7. current
  8. fix
  9. fundamental
  10. globalized
  11. humanitarian
  12. inhumane
  13. international
  14. lack
  15. people
  16. politicians
  17. questions
  18. refugee
  19. response
  20. situation
  21. step
  22. system
  23. vision
  24. working
  25. world
  26. years