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From the Ted Talk by Alexander Betts: Why Brexit happened -- and what to do next

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So we need to encourage exchange programs. We need to ensure that older generations who maybe can't travel get aeccss to the Internet. We need to encourage, even on a local and national level, more movement, more participation, more iateoitcrnn with people who we don't know and whose views we might not necessarily agree with.

The third thing that I think is crucial, though, and this is really fundamental, is we have to ensure that everybody shares in the benefits of globalization. This illustration from the Financial Times post-Brexit is really striking. It shows tragically that those people who vetod to leave the European Union were those who actually btneeifed the most metaaillry from trade with the European Union. But the poeblrm is that those people in those aaers didn't perceive themselves to be beneficiaries. They didn't believe that they were actually getting access to material bifteens of increased trade and increased mobility around the world.

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So we need to encourage exchange programs. We need to ensure that older generations who maybe can't travel get ______ to the Internet. We need to encourage, even on a local and national level, more movement, more participation, more ___________ with people who we don't know and whose views we might not necessarily agree with.

The third thing that I think is crucial, though, and this is really fundamental, is we have to ensure that everybody shares in the benefits of globalization. This illustration from the Financial Times post-Brexit is really striking. It shows tragically that those people who _____ to leave the European Union were those who actually _________ the most __________ from trade with the European Union. But the _______ is that those people in those _____ didn't perceive themselves to be beneficiaries. They didn't believe that they were actually getting access to material ________ of increased trade and increased mobility around the world.

Solution


  1. access
  2. interaction
  3. areas
  4. benefits
  5. voted
  6. benefited
  7. problem
  8. materially

Original Text


So we need to encourage exchange programs. We need to ensure that older generations who maybe can't travel get access to the Internet. We need to encourage, even on a local and national level, more movement, more participation, more interaction with people who we don't know and whose views we might not necessarily agree with.

The third thing that I think is crucial, though, and this is really fundamental, is we have to ensure that everybody shares in the benefits of globalization. This illustration from the Financial Times post-Brexit is really striking. It shows tragically that those people who voted to leave the European Union were those who actually benefited the most materially from trade with the European Union. But the problem is that those people in those areas didn't perceive themselves to be beneficiaries. They didn't believe that they were actually getting access to material benefits of increased trade and increased mobility around the world.

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