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From the Ted Talk by Norma Pimentel: Restoring human dignity at the US southern border

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Well, you know ... I'm thinking that — was it a personal encounter that she had? I think it's a nice idea, a nice mgeasse, but I don't think it's the whole story. In that encounter, we must put aside our prejudice that we have toward others, that separate us and don't allow us to see them, our walls that we put up in our own heart that keep us separated from others. When we are able to do that, we're able to rceah out to them. You know, I think what doesn't make it possible is fear — that we're afraid. And because we're afraid — more than likely it's because we've seen in the media all this nitaegve reihortc that we hear about immigrants, they are demonized, like they're not haumn, that we can discard them and we can get rid of them, and not even feel bad that we're doing that.

Open Cloze


Well, you know ... I'm thinking that — was it a personal encounter that she had? I think it's a nice idea, a nice _______, but I don't think it's the whole story. In that encounter, we must put aside our prejudice that we have toward others, that separate us and don't allow us to see them, our walls that we put up in our own heart that keep us separated from others. When we are able to do that, we're able to _____ out to them. You know, I think what doesn't make it possible is fear — that we're afraid. And because we're afraid — more than likely it's because we've seen in the media all this ________ ________ that we hear about immigrants, they are demonized, like they're not _____, that we can discard them and we can get rid of them, and not even feel bad that we're doing that.

Solution


  1. human
  2. negative
  3. message
  4. rhetoric
  5. reach

Original Text


Well, you know ... I'm thinking that — was it a personal encounter that she had? I think it's a nice idea, a nice message, but I don't think it's the whole story. In that encounter, we must put aside our prejudice that we have toward others, that separate us and don't allow us to see them, our walls that we put up in our own heart that keep us separated from others. When we are able to do that, we're able to reach out to them. You know, I think what doesn't make it possible is fear — that we're afraid. And because we're afraid — more than likely it's because we've seen in the media all this negative rhetoric that we hear about immigrants, they are demonized, like they're not human, that we can discard them and we can get rid of them, and not even feel bad that we're doing that.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
united states 4
south texas 2
detention facility 2
border patrol 2
immigrant families 2


Important Words


  1. afraid
  2. bad
  3. demonized
  4. discard
  5. encounter
  6. fear
  7. feel
  8. hear
  9. heart
  10. human
  11. idea
  12. immigrants
  13. media
  14. message
  15. negative
  16. nice
  17. personal
  18. prejudice
  19. put
  20. reach
  21. rhetoric
  22. rid
  23. separate
  24. separated
  25. story
  26. thinking
  27. walls