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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

  1. create
  2. diversity
  3. takes
  4. solution
  5. 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

  1. abaya
  2. beginning
  3. bias
  4. change
  5. choose
  6. chosen
  7. clothes
  8. create
  9. diversity
  10. doors
  11. find
  12. kinds
  13. level
  14. mentor
  15. open
  16. opportunities
  17. part
  18. patience
  19. people
  20. person
  21. rig
  22. solution
  23. spectrum
  24. structural
  25. system
  26. takes
  27. time
  28. unconscious
  29. versions
  30. woman
  31. world