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From the Ted Talk by Joan C. Williams: We won't fix US politics until we talk about class

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So where does this leave us? Here's where it is really, really easy to see someone else's truths as partail and pocaiharl. What's hard is to see your own truths that way too. We all spend so much time trying to concvine the other side that we're right and they're wrong - if only they would listen to us. But here's the reality: our politics stem from our values, and our values reflect our lives - lives deeply shaped by social calss. The PME feels entitled to self-development, whereas the middle class seeks stability through self-discipline. So what seems so obvious to one group may not seem oubivos to the other - obvious or even true. How can we begin to compromise on these issues that go straight to the center of our itidetnies?

Open Cloze


So where does this leave us? Here's where it is really, really easy to see someone else's truths as _______ and _________. What's hard is to see your own truths that way too. We all spend so much time trying to ________ the other side that we're right and they're wrong - if only they would listen to us. But here's the reality: our politics stem from our values, and our values reflect our lives - lives deeply shaped by social _____. The PME feels entitled to self-development, whereas the middle class seeks stability through self-discipline. So what seems so obvious to one group may not seem _______ to the other - obvious or even true. How can we begin to compromise on these issues that go straight to the center of our __________?

Solution


  1. partial
  2. convince
  3. identities
  4. class
  5. parochial
  6. obvious

Original Text


So where does this leave us? Here's where it is really, really easy to see someone else's truths as partial and parochial. What's hard is to see your own truths that way too. We all spend so much time trying to convince the other side that we're right and they're wrong - if only they would listen to us. But here's the reality: our politics stem from our values, and our values reflect our lives - lives deeply shaped by social class. The PME feels entitled to self-development, whereas the middle class seeks stability through self-discipline. So what seems so obvious to one group may not seem obvious to the other - obvious or even true. How can we begin to compromise on these issues that go straight to the center of our identities?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
middle class 5
median household 3
household income 3
american politics 3
professional managerial 2
silicon valley 2
united states 2
medical school 2
high school 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
median household income 3

Important Words


  1. center
  2. class
  3. compromise
  4. convince
  5. deeply
  6. easy
  7. entitled
  8. feels
  9. group
  10. hard
  11. identities
  12. issues
  13. leave
  14. listen
  15. lives
  16. middle
  17. obvious
  18. parochial
  19. partial
  20. pme
  21. politics
  22. reflect
  23. seeks
  24. shaped
  25. side
  26. social
  27. spend
  28. stability
  29. stem
  30. straight
  31. time
  32. true
  33. truths
  34. values
  35. wrong