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From the Ted Talk by Yassmin Abdel-Magied: What does my headscarf mean to you?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
This is me. But I'm also the woman in the rig clothes, and I'm also the woman who was in the abaya at the beginning. Would you have chosen to mentor me if you had seen me in one of those other versions of who I am? Because I'm that same person. We have to look past our uiscnocnuos bias, find someone to mentor who's at the opposite end of your spectrum because structural change tkaes time, and I don't have that level of patience. So if we're going to caetre a change, if we're going to create a world where we all have those kinds of opportunities, then choose to open doors for people. Because you might think that deriistvy has nothing to do with you, but we are all part of this system and we can all be part of that sliouotn.
Open Cloze
This is me. But I'm also the woman in the rig clothes, and I'm also the woman who was in the abaya at the beginning. Would you have chosen to mentor me if you had seen me in one of those other versions of who I am? Because I'm that same person. We have to look past our ___________ bias, find someone to mentor who's at the opposite end of your spectrum because structural change _____ time, and I don't have that level of patience. So if we're going to ______ a change, if we're going to create a world where we all have those kinds of opportunities, then choose to open doors for people. Because you might think that _________ has nothing to do with you, but we are all part of this system and we can all be part of that ________.
Solution
- create
- diversity
- takes
- solution
- unconscious
Original Text
This is me. But I'm also the woman in the rig clothes, and I'm also the woman who was in the abaya at the beginning. Would you have chosen to mentor me if you had seen me in one of those other versions of who I am? Because I'm that same person. We have to look past our unconscious bias, find someone to mentor who's at the opposite end of your spectrum because structural change takes time, and I don't have that level of patience. So if we're going to create a change, if we're going to create a world where we all have those kinds of opportunities, then choose to open doors for people. Because you might think that diversity has nothing to do with you, but we are all part of this system and we can all be part of that solution.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
unconscious bias |
8 |
muslim women |
2 |
race car |
2 |
equal opportunity |
2 |
shared experiences |
2 |
open doors |
2 |
Important Words
- abaya
- beginning
- bias
- change
- choose
- chosen
- clothes
- create
- diversity
- doors
- find
- kinds
- level
- mentor
- open
- opportunities
- part
- patience
- people
- person
- rig
- solution
- spectrum
- structural
- system
- takes
- time
- unconscious
- versions
- woman
- world