Pratica di Shadowing: The world's largest family reunion ... we're all invited! | A.J. Jacobs - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube
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Reviewer Gopal Six months ago,
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Reviewer Gopal Six months ago,
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I got an email from a man in Israel who had read one of my books.
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And the email said, you don't know me, but I'm your 12th cousin.
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And it said, I have a family tree with 80,000 people on it, including you, Karl Marx, and several European aristocrats.
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Now, I did not know what to make of this.
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Part of me was like, okay, when's he going to ask me to wire $10,000 to his Nigerian bank, right?
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I also thought, 80,000 relatives, you know, do I want that?
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I have enough trouble with some of the ones I have already.
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And I won't name names, but you know who you are.
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But another part of me said, this is remarkable.
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Here I am alone in my office, but I'm not alone at all.
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I'm connected to 80,000 people around the world.
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And that's four Madison Square Gardens full of cousins.
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And some of them are going to be great, and some of them are going to be irritating, but they're all related to me.
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So this email inspired me to dive into genealogy, which I always thought was a very staid and proper field.
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But it turns out it's going through a fascinating revolution, and a controversial one.
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Partly this is because of DNA and genetic testing, but partly it's because of the internet.
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There are sites that now take the Wikipedia approach to family trees, collaboration and crowdsourcing.
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And what you do is you load your family tree on, and then these sites search to see
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if the AJ Jacobson your tree is the same as the AJ Jacobs in another tree.
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And if it is, then you can combine.
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And then you combine and combine and combine until you get these massive mega family trees with thousands of people on them, or even millions.
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I'm on something on Genie called the World Family Tree,
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which has no less than, jaw-dropping, 75 million people.
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So that's 75 million people connected by blood or marriage, sometimes both.
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It's in all seven continents, including Antarctica.
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I'm on it.
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Many of you are on it, whether you know it or not.
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And you can see the links.
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Here's my cousin, Gwyneth Paltrow.
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She has no idea I exist, but we are officially cousins.
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We have just 17 links between us.
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And there's my cousin, Barack Obama.
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And he is my aunt's fifth-grade, aunt's husband's father's wife's seventh-grade nephew.
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So practically my older brother.
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And my cousin, of course, the actor, Kevin Bacon, who is my first cousin,
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twice removed, nieces, husbands, first cousin, once removed nieces, husband.
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So six degrees of Kevin Bacon, plus or minus several degrees.
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Now I'm not boasting because all of you have famous people and historical figures in your tree, because we are all connected.
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And 75 million may seem like a lot,
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but in a few years it's quite likely we will have a family tree with almost all 7 billion people on Earth.
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But does it really matter?
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You know, what's the importance?
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And I do think it is important, and I'll give you five reasons why, really quickly.
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First, it's got scientific value.
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This is an unprecedented history of the human race.
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And it's giving us valuable data about how diseases are inherited,
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how people migrate, and there's a team of scientists at MIT right now studying the world family tree.
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Number two, it brings history alive.
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I found out I'm connected to Albert Einstein.
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So I told my seven-year-old son that, and he was totally engaged.
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Now Albert Einstein is not some dead white guy with weird hair.
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He's Uncle Albert.
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And my son wanted to know, you know, what did he say?
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What is E equals MC squared?
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I also, it's not all good news.
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I found a link to Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer.
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But I will say that's on my wife's side.
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So I want to make that clear.
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Sorry, honey.
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Number three, interconnectedness.
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We all come from the same ancestor.
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And you don't have to believe the literal Bible version.
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But scientists talk about Y-chromosomal Adam and mitochondrial Eve.
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And these were about 100,000 to 300,000 years ago.
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We all have a bit of their DNA in us.
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They are our great, great, great, great, great, great, great.
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that for about 7,000 times, grandparents.
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And so that means we literally all are biological cousins as well.
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And estimates vary, but probably the farthest cousin you have on Earth is about a 50th cousin.
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Now it's not just ancestors we share, descendants.
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If you have kids, look, and they have kids, look how quickly the descendants accumulate.
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So in 10, 12 generations, you're going to have thousands of offspring and millions of offspring.
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Number four, a kinder world.
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Now I know that there are family feuds.
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I have three sons, so I see how they fight.
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But I think that there's also a human bias to treat your family a little better than strangers.
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I think this tree is going to be bad news for bigots
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because they're going to have to realize that they are cousins with thousands of people who,
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in whatever ethnic group they happen to have issues with.
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And I think you look back at history
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and a lot of the terrible things we've done to each other is because one group thinks another group is subhuman.
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And you can't do that anymore.
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We're not just part of the same species, we're part of the same family.
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We share 99.9% of our DNA.
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Now the final one is number five, a democratizing effect.
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Some genealogy has an elitist strain, you know people say, oh, I'm descended from Mary Queen of Scots, and you're not, so you cannot join my country club.
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But that's really going to be hard to do now, because everyone is related.
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I'm descended from Mary Queen of Scots, you know, by marriage, but still.
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So it's really a fascinating time in the history of family, because it's changing so fast.
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There's gay marriage and sperm donors, and there's intermarriage on an unprecedented scale.
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And this makes some of my more conservative cousins a little nervous.
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But I actually think it's a good thing.
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I think the more inclusive the idea of family is, the better.
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Because then you have more potential caretakers.
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And as my aunt's eighth cousin twice removed, Hillary Clinton says, it takes a village.
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So I have all these hundreds and thousands, millions of new cousins.
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I thought, what can I do with this information?
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And that's when I decided, why not throw a party?
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So that's what I'm doing.
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And you're all invited.
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Next year, next summer, I will be hosting what I hope is the biggest and best family reunion in history.
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Thank you.
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I want you there.
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I want you there.
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It's going to be at the New York Hall of Science, which is a great venue, but it's also on the site of the former World's Fair,
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which is, I think, very appropriate because I see this as a family reunion meets a World's Fair.
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There's going to be exhibits and food, music.
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Paul McCartney is 11 steps away, so I'm hoping he brings his guitar.
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He hasn't RSVP'd yet, but fingers crossed.
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There was going to be a day of speakers, of fascinating cousins.
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Now it's early, but I've already got some lined up.
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Cass Sunstein, my cousin who is perhaps the most brilliant legal scholar, will be talking.
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He was a former member of the Obama administration.
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And on the other side of the political spectrum, George H.W.
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Bush, the number 41, the father.
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He has agreed to participate.
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And Nick Kroll, the comedian, and Dr. Oz, and many more to come.
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And of course, the most important is that you.
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I want you guys there.
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And I invite you to go to globalfamilyreunion.org and figure out how you're on the family tree.
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Because these are big issues, family and tribe.
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And I don't know all the answers.
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But I have a lot of smart relatives, including you guys.
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So together, I think we can figure it out.
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Only together can we solve these big problems.
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So cousin to cousin, I thank you.
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I can't wait to see you.
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Goodbye.
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Contesto e Background
A.J. Jacobs, scrittore e autore, condivide la sua esperienza sorprendente di avere scoperto di avere un albero genealogico di 80.000 persone. Ricevere un'email da un cugino dodicesimo in Israele lo ha spinto a esplorare la genealogia, una disciplina che ha trovato in rapida evoluzione grazie all'uso della tecnologia, in particolare del DNA e di internet. Jacobs ci invita a riflettere sull'importanza delle connessioni familiari, suggerendo che tutti noi siamo, in un certo senso, legati. Ciò crea non solo curiosità storica e scientifica ma anche una possibilità di creare un mondo più comprensivo e aperto.
Top 5 Frasi per la Comunicazione Quotidiana
- "Non so chi sei, ma sei mio cugino dodicesimo." - Un modo interessante per iniziare una conversazione sulla famiglia.
- "Abbiamo un albero genealogico con 80.000 persone!" - Perfetto per suscitare l'interesse degli ascoltatori.
- "Siamo tutti collegati da un antenato comune." - Utilizzato per parlare di connessioni e unità tra le persone.
- "Alan Einstein è mio zio!" - Un modo divertente per condividere la tua storia familiare.
- "Quello che hai in comune con me è più importante di ciò che ci distingue." - Un’affermazione che promuove l’inclusione.
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