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From the Ted Talk by Sasha Sarago: The (de)colonizing of beauty

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So you can just imagine how furious Barangaroo was when she saw British colonists troll 4,000 salmon off the north sohre in just one day, then gifting some of this catch to her husband and some of the other men from her tribe. Barangaroo knew such a wasteful act would threaten the Eora women's cultural authority within the tribe, furthermore dytiersnog their traditional way of life. So Barangaroo rejected British laws and customs, their food, drink and social etiquette, even when her husband decided to conform. When bagnaaroro and her husband beonnelng were ienitvd to dine with Governor Phillip and the British party, Barangaroo sayetd true to who she was. instead of wraneig colonial attire — a tihgt corset and a gown leearyd in silk finished with pearls — she came sporting her traditional wares: white ochre and a bone through her nose. What Barangaroo ialltertusd was: indigenous btuaey is authentic.

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So you can just imagine how furious Barangaroo was when she saw British colonists troll 4,000 salmon off the north _____ in just one day, then gifting some of this catch to her husband and some of the other men from her tribe. Barangaroo knew such a wasteful act would threaten the Eora women's cultural authority within the tribe, furthermore __________ their traditional way of life. So Barangaroo rejected British laws and customs, their food, drink and social etiquette, even when her husband decided to conform. When __________ and her husband _________ were _______ to dine with Governor Phillip and the British party, Barangaroo ______ true to who she was. instead of _______ colonial attire — a _____ corset and a gown _______ in silk finished with pearls — she came sporting her traditional wares: white ochre and a bone through her nose. What Barangaroo ___________ was: indigenous ______ is authentic.

Solution

  1. invited
  2. illustrated
  3. barangaroo
  4. destroying
  5. stayed
  6. tight
  7. layered
  8. bennelong
  9. beauty
  10. shore
  11. wearing

Original Text

So you can just imagine how furious Barangaroo was when she saw British colonists troll 4,000 salmon off the north shore in just one day, then gifting some of this catch to her husband and some of the other men from her tribe. Barangaroo knew such a wasteful act would threaten the Eora women's cultural authority within the tribe, furthermore destroying their traditional way of life. So Barangaroo rejected British laws and customs, their food, drink and social etiquette, even when her husband decided to conform. When Barangaroo and her husband Bennelong were invited to dine with Governor Phillip and the British party, Barangaroo stayed true to who she was. instead of wearing colonial attire — a tight corset and a gown layered in silk finished with pearls — she came sporting her traditional wares: white ochre and a bone through her nose. What Barangaroo illustrated was: indigenous beauty is authentic.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
indigenous beauty 4
pretty hurts 2
red ochre 2

Important Words

  1. act
  2. attire
  3. authentic
  4. authority
  5. barangaroo
  6. beauty
  7. bennelong
  8. bone
  9. british
  10. catch
  11. colonial
  12. colonists
  13. conform
  14. corset
  15. cultural
  16. customs
  17. day
  18. decided
  19. destroying
  20. dine
  21. drink
  22. eora
  23. etiquette
  24. finished
  25. food
  26. furious
  27. gifting
  28. governor
  29. gown
  30. husband
  31. illustrated
  32. imagine
  33. indigenous
  34. invited
  35. knew
  36. laws
  37. layered
  38. life
  39. men
  40. north
  41. nose
  42. ochre
  43. party
  44. pearls
  45. phillip
  46. rejected
  47. salmon
  48. shore
  49. silk
  50. social
  51. sporting
  52. stayed
  53. threaten
  54. tight
  55. traditional
  56. tribe
  57. troll
  58. true
  59. wasteful
  60. wearing
  61. white