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I am incredibly excited to be here today,

because I want to tell you about an idea that's shaped the way that I look at the world.

And I think that anyone can use to look at your own world, whether you're working in finance,

business, journalism, or just looking around your everyday life at things like face masks, dogs, chocolate.

Really.

And the idea comes from the world of cultural anthropology.

Now, I know to many of you that might sound pretty weird.

But I'm talking to you because my own life story has been bound up with that.

Today, as you see me, I am a journalist.

I live in New York, I work with the Financial Times, and I spend much of my life talking to people who work in the world of business,

finance, technology, etc. That's my kind of world today.

Excusey, rather bad hairstyle.

But I didn't start out like that.

I actually started out, before I became a journalist, as a cultural anthropologist, looking like this.

I did fieldwork, as we call it, in Soviet Tajikistan, on the borders of Afghanistan.

Now, what cultural anthropology does is try to study human culture,

all the assumptions that we inherit from our surroundings and we don't often think about, but which shape us deeply in terms of how we think, live and act.

And anthropologists do this in two distinctive ways.

Firstly, they believe in getting out and getting our feet dirty and trying to participate in people's lives to understand them,

which is why I'm wearing Tajik clothes on the borders of Tajikistan,

where I was living, but also they believe in not just studying cultures that we already know that are familiar, but cultures which are unfamiliar.

That can be on the other side of the world, it can be down the end of the street, a different profession, or, shock horror, a different political party.

And anthropologists do this for two reasons.

Firstly, understanding people who have a different point of view to you is very helpful for making sense of the world.

Duh.

It's something we ought to all know, but actually, it's very easy to forget today.

But secondly, empathizing with another way of looking at the world can help you to understand yourself better as well.

And the reason is that there's a wonderful proverb which says, A fish can't see water.

A fish can't see water.

None of us can see the assumptions that shape us unless we jump out of our fish pole, go to somewhere completely different,

talk to other fish, and then look back at ourselves to try and understand the assumptions that shape us.

In my case, I did that by going to Soviet Tajikistan,

but later on, I used that perspective of jumping out of my fishbowl to look back at my own world, where I now work as a journalist,

to look at the world of finance, to look at the world of business, to try and look at it with fresh eyes and to see not just the parts of the world that are obvious,

but the parts of the world that we don't often talk about, the social silences.

Now, I use that framework to help me predict the great financial crisis in 2008.

In particular, I spent much of the years before that going to investment banking conferences, which are gigantic ceremonial rituals,

which are rather similar to Tajik weddings.

It's true.

They pool people together, the scattered tribe, they reaffirm their social ties and they reaffirm a shared worldview through rituals,

not through dancing, but through hanging out by the bar and having PowerPoints.

Same function.

But I did that in the world of high finance.

But what I want to make you think about today is

that you don't have to be using these tools in Tajikistan or Tokyo or Wall Street.

You can actually use them to look around your own world today, your everyday life.

You can use them to look at something which is completely different from either Wall Street or Tajikistan, the world of dogs.

This is my dog, Charlie.

Adorable, smelly, out of control.

And when people ask me about my dog, I often say, Charlie, she's part of my family.

I bet many of you who have dogs will say exactly the same thing.

But here's something to think about.

If you are in America or Europe, you think it's kind of normal to say that your dog is part of your family.

I can tell you, though, that if you're sitting in Tajikistan or most other cultures,

which are non-Western, saying that a dog is part of your family makes you look really weird, if not exotic.

Because the reality is that in many cultures throughout history, Animals have been defined in opposition to humans.

Dogs lived out in the fields, or lived out in the fields or the yard.

They might come in the house.

They didn't come into the bedroom, and they certainly didn't come into the bed.

Charlie's not supposed to be in my bed, but hey.

And the thing to think about that's interesting is this.

What is different in these different contexts isn't necessarily the dog.

It's our idea of family.

Many non-Western cultures have an idea that a family is something that is imposed on you and it's pretty non-negotiable.

In the West, we have this wonderful individualistic consumer culture where everything is pick and mix and customized.

We customize our coffee choice.

We have our music playlists.

We get to define our families. And that's liberating.

It's also sometimes quite nerve-wracking.

And what it means is that people say, well, if I want to put a dog in my family, I'm going to put a dog.

It also means that people use dogs to define and create families as an active choice.

And what is interesting is that the issue at stake here is not about the human and the dog relationship, let alone your dog versus dog relationship.

It's humans to humans.

And that's something you need to think about if, say, you're in the business of selling dog food or you just want to get a dog.

And it's something very hard to see unless you jump out of your fishbowl.

Or, for another example, think about cell phones.

I spent a lot of time with my teenagers worrying about why they can't get off their cell phone.

And the normal way that people talk about that is to say, well, they're addicted to cell phones because guess what?

It's those algorithms, screen time, it's the technology.

But an anthropologist called Dana Boyd went out a few years ago

and tried to look at teenagers in the wild with their cell phones,

and realize that when you observe teenagers with this kind of broad anthropological perspective, when you try and look with a worm's eye view, not a bird's eye view,

actually, there's something about teenagers that's quite remarkable, which is that 50, 100 years ago, teenagers were physically roaming in the world a lot.

They were on their bikes, they were walking around the streets, they were congregating in fields, they could explore the world,

test boundaries, essentially have adventures without parents watching.

Today, in many American contexts, they can't.

Never mind lockdown, even before that, because of stranger danger, because of overshadowing,

the only place they could roam without parents watching was in cyberspace with their cell phones.

So is it any surprise that teenagers love their cell phones?

If you want to change behavior, you can't just look at the phone, the noise, you have to look at the physical experience, the silence too.

And again, that's hard to see if you just know one fishbowl.

Another example, what is sitting at the end of your noses right now, or hopefully called your face mask?

In the last two years, we've heard a lot about how face masks stop germs through that physical fabric.

But they're cultural signaling devices, too.

They send messages to your own brain to remind you to change behavior, to each other to show whether you respect science,

whether you're upholding community norms.

And although doctors don't often talk about that cultural aspect, we need to, because one thing we've learned is you can't stop a pandemic just with medical science or computer science.

You need to think about social science and behavior. And behavior could change.

Because there's another thing about those face masks, which is effectively, they have shown how culture can change.

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We weren't wearing them two years ago.

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And culture can change in all kinds of surprising ways.

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Culture isn't a box with rigid, static sides.

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It's more like a river that flows.

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And if you want to understand that, think about one last issue, which is chocolate.

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Hooray.

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Kit Kats started life a century ago as a British brown biscuit.

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It then went around the world as an export, turned up in Japan,

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and some local Japanese teenagers about 20 years ago started using Kit Kats as good luck tokens for exams.

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And then they started adding Japanese flavors like soy sauce, wasabi, green tea.

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And then it became a Japanese biscuit and a Japanese souvenir.

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And then was sold back into Britain, where today you can buy green tea Kit Kats.

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And they're actually made in Germany.

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So today, a Kit Kat is British and Swiss, because Nesse owns it, and Japanese and German.

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Culture is a river.

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It changes.

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New streams come in, and that is fantastic.

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And that is one of the big ideas I want to leave you with, last of all.

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Because right now, as we speak, COVID-19 and the lockdown, in many ways, has been an extraordinary period of culture shock.

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It's given you all what anthropologists experience when they go to other cultures.

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The chance to be jolted out of what was normal and to look at your world again, to become a stranger in your own land again.

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So, however much you might hate that experience, however much you might be scared by that culture shock, the lesson from anthropology is this.

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Don't run away from culture shock.

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Seize it as an opportunity.

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Recognize that lockdown has kept us all trapped with our own tribe, physically, our own pod.

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We've gone online into echo chambers, but now more than ever is a time when we need to jump out of our fishbowl,

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go talk to other fish, widen our lens, not just so that we can understand the rest of the world,

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which we need to, but also so that we can understand ourselves better, too.

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And just think of that when you see a dog, a KitKat bar, a face mask or your cell phone.

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All of them show the power of culture, why culture matters, but why culture can change,

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and why, right now, we have an opportunity to rethink that.

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Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Este vídeo tiene 131 frases y 1844 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 12:49. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 144 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
teenager sustantivo	/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/	adolescente, adolescentes
mask sustantivo	/mæsk/	máscara, mascarilla
shock sustantivo	/ʃɔk/	choque
journalist sustantivo	/ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/	diarista
define verbo	/dɪˈfaɪn/	determinar, definir
assumption sustantivo	/əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/	asunción
anthropology sustantivo	/ˌænθɹəˈpɑləd͡ʒi/	antropología
lockdown sustantivo	/ˈlɑkˌdaʊn/	encerramiento, enclaustramiento
everyday adjetivo	/ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/	de diario, cuotidiano
silence sustantivo	/ˈsaɪ̯ləns/	silencio
physically adverbio	/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kli/	físicamente
ritual sustantivo	/ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.u.əl/	ritual
firstly adverbio	/ˈfɜɹstli/	primeramente
necessarily adverbio	/ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/	necesariamente
chamber sustantivo	/ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/	cámara, alcoba

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
get off verbo	bajarse
get out verbo	salir
go around verbo	cundir
go out verbo	salir
walk around verbo	deambular

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	has been bound · have been defined · we've heard
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	people who work · cultures which are · people who have
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	has been bound · have been defined · is imposed

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 30 contracciones y formas reducidas, como can't, don't, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: anthropology /ˌænθɹəˈpɑləd͡ʒi/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, empathize /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shock /ʃɔk/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, negotiable /nɪˈɡoʊʃəbəl/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: anthropology /ˌænθɹəˈpɑləd͡ʒi/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como teenager, mask, shock.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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