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From the Ted Talk by Farish Ahmad-Noor: Why is colonialism (still) romanticized?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But for us to aapdt to this change, for us to be ready for that change, we need to think out of the box, and we can't fall back, we can't fall back, we can't fall back on the same set of clichéd, tired, staid old syoteprtees. We need to think out, and that's why historians, we can't work alone now. I, I need to eagnge with people in psychology, people in behavioral therapy. I need to engage with sociologists, anthropologists, political economists. I need above all to engage with people in the arts and the media, because it's there, in that forum, outside the confines of the usivtrieny, that these debates really need to take place.

Open Cloze


But for us to _____ to this change, for us to be ready for that change, we need to think out of the box, and we can't fall back, we can't fall back, we can't fall back on the same set of clichéd, tired, staid old ___________. We need to think out, and that's why historians, we can't work alone now. I, I need to ______ with people in psychology, people in behavioral therapy. I need to engage with sociologists, anthropologists, political economists. I need above all to engage with people in the arts and the media, because it's there, in that forum, outside the confines of the __________, that these debates really need to take place.

Solution


  1. engage
  2. university
  3. stereotypes
  4. adapt

Original Text


But for us to adapt to this change, for us to be ready for that change, we need to think out of the box, and we can't fall back, we can't fall back, we can't fall back on the same set of clichéd, tired, staid old stereotypes. We need to think out, and that's why historians, we can't work alone now. I, I need to engage with people in psychology, people in behavioral therapy. I need to engage with sociologists, anthropologists, political economists. I need above all to engage with people in the arts and the media, because it's there, in that forum, outside the confines of the university, that these debates really need to take place.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
southeast asia 6
time machine 3
colonial southeast 2
tourist ads 2
postcolonial southeast 2
southeast asians 2
southeast asian 2
exotic southeast 2
historical beings 2
carry history 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
colonial southeast asia 2

Important Words


  1. adapt
  2. anthropologists
  3. arts
  4. behavioral
  5. box
  6. change
  7. clichéd
  8. confines
  9. debates
  10. economists
  11. engage
  12. fall
  13. forum
  14. historians
  15. media
  16. people
  17. place
  18. political
  19. psychology
  20. ready
  21. set
  22. sociologists
  23. staid
  24. stereotypes
  25. therapy
  26. tired
  27. university
  28. work