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From the Ted Talk by Sasha Sarago: The (de)colonizing of beauty

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And this is why we need to change our perceptions of beauty. And how we do this is by learning from Aboriginal women, their stories and pepesicrevts. Because right now, "pretty" hurts. Pretty hurts because you're trying to erase my Aboriginality, to applaud my pimxiotry to whiteness. Pretty hurts because aimed at an Aboriginal woman, it is a weapon loaded in racism, sexual eootxtiaipln and cultural gdnecoie. You see, what this woman didn’t realize when she declared that I was too pretty to be aiigrnboal is that she took something precious from me: pride in my identity. You see, I belong to the oseldt living cltruue in the world, but that day, that legacy — it was replaced with shame, and it's been this filthy stain I've been trying to get rid of for 20 years.

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And this is why we need to change our perceptions of beauty. And how we do this is by learning from Aboriginal women, their stories and ____________. Because right now, "pretty" hurts. Pretty hurts because you're trying to erase my Aboriginality, to applaud my _________ to whiteness. Pretty hurts because aimed at an Aboriginal woman, it is a weapon loaded in racism, sexual ____________ and cultural ________. You see, what this woman didn’t realize when she declared that I was too pretty to be __________ is that she took something precious from me: pride in my identity. You see, I belong to the ______ living _______ in the world, but that day, that legacy — it was replaced with shame, and it's been this filthy stain I've been trying to get rid of for 20 years.

Solution


  1. culture
  2. perspectives
  3. proximity
  4. exploitation
  5. aboriginal
  6. oldest
  7. genocide

Original Text


And this is why we need to change our perceptions of beauty. And how we do this is by learning from Aboriginal women, their stories and perspectives. Because right now, "pretty" hurts. Pretty hurts because you're trying to erase my Aboriginality, to applaud my proximity to whiteness. Pretty hurts because aimed at an Aboriginal woman, it is a weapon loaded in racism, sexual exploitation and cultural genocide. You see, what this woman didn’t realize when she declared that I was too pretty to be Aboriginal is that she took something precious from me: pride in my identity. You see, I belong to the oldest living culture in the world, but that day, that legacy — it was replaced with shame, and it's been this filthy stain I've been trying to get rid of for 20 years.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
indigenous beauty 4
pretty hurts 2
red ochre 2


Important Words


  1. aboriginal
  2. aboriginality
  3. aimed
  4. applaud
  5. beauty
  6. belong
  7. change
  8. cultural
  9. culture
  10. day
  11. declared
  12. erase
  13. exploitation
  14. filthy
  15. genocide
  16. hurts
  17. identity
  18. learning
  19. legacy
  20. living
  21. loaded
  22. oldest
  23. perceptions
  24. perspectives
  25. precious
  26. pretty
  27. pride
  28. proximity
  29. racism
  30. realize
  31. replaced
  32. rid
  33. sexual
  34. shame
  35. stain
  36. stories
  37. weapon
  38. whiteness
  39. woman
  40. women
  41. world
  42. years