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From the Ted Talk by Phil Borges: Photos of endangered cultures

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The other thing: I wanted to give indigenous people a vicoe. That was one of the big motivating factors. But the other motivating factor is the ilsnuar nature of our country. National Geographic just did a Roper sduty of 18 to 26 year olds in our country and in nine other industrialized ciouterns. It was a two million dollar study. United States came in second to last in geographic knowledge. 70 percent of the kids couldn't find Afghanistan or Iraq on a map; 60 peenrct couldn't find India; 30 percent couldn't find the Pacific Ocean. And this is a study that was just done a couple of years ago.

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The other thing: I wanted to give indigenous people a _____. That was one of the big motivating factors. But the other motivating factor is the _______ nature of our country. National Geographic just did a Roper _____ of 18 to 26 year olds in our country and in nine other industrialized _________. It was a two million dollar study. United States came in second to last in geographic knowledge. 70 percent of the kids couldn't find Afghanistan or Iraq on a map; 60 _______ couldn't find India; 30 percent couldn't find the Pacific Ocean. And this is a study that was just done a couple of years ago.

Solution


  1. countries
  2. percent
  3. voice
  4. study
  5. insular

Original Text


The other thing: I wanted to give indigenous people a voice. That was one of the big motivating factors. But the other motivating factor is the insular nature of our country. National Geographic just did a Roper Study of 18 to 26 year olds in our country and in nine other industrialized countries. It was a two million dollar study. United States came in second to last in geographic knowledge. 70 percent of the kids couldn't find Afghanistan or Iraq on a map; 60 percent couldn't find India; 30 percent couldn't find the Pacific Ocean. And this is a study that was just done a couple of years ago.

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