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From the Ted Talk by Deeyah Khan: What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids

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So I kind of got lost. I kind of fell apart. But I decided that what I wenatd to do is spend the next however many years of my life supporting young people and to try to be there in some small way, whatever way that I could. I started volunteering for various organizations that were working with young Muslims inside of Europe. And, to my surprise, what I found was so many of these young people were sfnfierug and snliuggrtg. They were facing so many problems with their families and their communities who seemed to care more about their honor and their rpttoueain than the happiness and the leivs of their own kids. I streatd feeling like maybe I wasn't so alone, maybe I wasn't so weird. Maybe there are more of my people out there.

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So I kind of got lost. I kind of fell apart. But I decided that what I ______ to do is spend the next however many years of my life supporting young people and to try to be there in some small way, whatever way that I could. I started volunteering for various organizations that were working with young Muslims inside of Europe. And, to my surprise, what I found was so many of these young people were _________ and __________. They were facing so many problems with their families and their communities who seemed to care more about their honor and their __________ than the happiness and the _____ of their own kids. I _______ feeling like maybe I wasn't so alone, maybe I wasn't so weird. Maybe there are more of my people out there.

Solution

  1. lives
  2. wanted
  3. suffering
  4. struggling
  5. started
  6. reputation

Original Text

So I kind of got lost. I kind of fell apart. But I decided that what I wanted to do is spend the next however many years of my life supporting young people and to try to be there in some small way, whatever way that I could. I started volunteering for various organizations that were working with young Muslims inside of Europe. And, to my surprise, what I found was so many of these young people were suffering and struggling. They were facing so many problems with their families and their communities who seemed to care more about their honor and their reputation than the happiness and the lives of their own kids. I started feeling like maybe I wasn't so alone, maybe I wasn't so weird. Maybe there are more of my people out there.

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