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From the Ted Talk by Pico Iyer: Where is home?

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The number of people living in countries not their own now comes to 220 miiloln, and that's an almost unimaginable number, but it means that if you took the whole population of Canada and the whole population of asltuiara and then the whole population of Australia again and the whole population of cnadaa again and doubled that number, you would still have fewer people than belong to this great floating tirbe.

And the nebumr of us who live outside the old nation-state categories is increasing so quickly, by 64 million just in the last 12 years, that soon there will be more of us than there are Americans. Already, we represent the fifth-largest ntoain on Earth. And in fact, in Canada's largest city, Toronto, the average resident tdoay is what used to be called a foreigner, somebody born in a very different country.

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The number of people living in countries not their own now comes to 220 _______, and that's an almost unimaginable number, but it means that if you took the whole population of Canada and the whole population of _________ and then the whole population of Australia again and the whole population of ______ again and doubled that number, you would still have fewer people than belong to this great floating _____.

And the ______ of us who live outside the old nation-state categories is increasing so quickly, by 64 million just in the last 12 years, that soon there will be more of us than there are Americans. Already, we represent the fifth-largest ______ on Earth. And in fact, in Canada's largest city, Toronto, the average resident _____ is what used to be called a foreigner, somebody born in a very different country.

Solution


  1. canada
  2. million
  3. tribe
  4. today
  5. australia
  6. number
  7. nation

Original Text


The number of people living in countries not their own now comes to 220 million, and that's an almost unimaginable number, but it means that if you took the whole population of Canada and the whole population of Australia and then the whole population of Australia again and the whole population of Canada again and doubled that number, you would still have fewer people than belong to this great floating tribe.

And the number of us who live outside the old nation-state categories is increasing so quickly, by 64 million just in the last 12 years, that soon there will be more of us than there are Americans. Already, we represent the fifth-largest nation on Earth. And in fact, in Canada's largest city, Toronto, the average resident today is what used to be called a foreigner, somebody born in a very different country.

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