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From the Ted Talk by Maria Bezaitis: Why we need strangeness

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"Don't talk to strangers."

You have heard that phrase uttered by your friends, family, schools and the mdiea for dadcees. It's a norm. It's a social norm. But it's a special kind of social norm, because it's a sioacl norm that wants to tell us who we can relate to and who we shouldn't relate to. "Don't talk to strangers" says, "Stay from anyone who's not fliiamar to you. Stick with the people you know. Stick with people like you."

How appealing is that? It's not really what we do, is it, when we're at our best? When we're at our best, we reach out to people who are not like us, because when we do that, we learn from people who are not like us.

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"Don't talk to strangers."

You have heard that phrase uttered by your friends, family, schools and the _____ for _______. It's a norm. It's a social norm. But it's a special kind of social norm, because it's a ______ norm that wants to tell us who we can relate to and who we shouldn't relate to. "Don't talk to strangers" says, "Stay from anyone who's not ________ to you. Stick with the people you know. Stick with people like you."

How appealing is that? It's not really what we do, is it, when we're at our best? When we're at our best, we reach out to people who are not like us, because when we do that, we learn from people who are not like us.

Solution


  1. decades
  2. media
  3. familiar
  4. social

Original Text


"Don't talk to strangers."

You have heard that phrase uttered by your friends, family, schools and the media for decades. It's a norm. It's a social norm. But it's a special kind of social norm, because it's a social norm that wants to tell us who we can relate to and who we shouldn't relate to. "Don't talk to strangers" says, "Stay from anyone who's not familiar to you. Stick with the people you know. Stick with people like you."

How appealing is that? It's not really what we do, is it, when we're at our best? When we're at our best, we reach out to people who are not like us, because when we do that, we learn from people who are not like us.

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