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| that liberals and conservatives have grown further apart. They increasingly wall themselves off in these ideological silos, consuming different news, talking only to like-minded others | wall sb off = separate, divide, segregate= The school walled the students off from the outside world. /ˈsaɪloʊ/= a system, process, department, etc. that operates separately or is thought of as separate from others Some departments have become silos and no longer communicate regularly with one another. |
| And I think that the most alarming of all of it is seeing this rising animosity on both sides. | /ˌænɪˈmɑːsəti/ = hostility He felt no animosity towards his critics. the animosity of some locals towards asylum seekers Personal animosities between the leaders have made negotiations difficult. |
| I'm a movie buff, and so I'm often like, what kind of movie are we in here with this pattern? | /bʌf/ = a person who is very interested in a particular subject or activity and knows a lot about it an opera buff They were a group of computer buffs who used to meet every Thursday evening. |
| But what I keep thinking is that we're in a zombie apocalypse movie. There's people wandering around in packs, not thinking for themselves, seized by this mob mentality trying to spread their disease and destroy society | c |
| What can we do to chip away at polarization in everyday life? What could we do to connect with and communicate with our political counterparts? | cheap away at = To reduce or make progress on something incrementally: We chipped away at the problem until it was solved. I chipped away at the dried cement on the tiles. |
| the political divide in our country is undergirded by a deeper moral divide. Some are, some aren't, depending on the philosophical basis which undergird those theories. | /ˌəndərˈɡərd/ = provide support or a firm basis for. Yet in a most fundamental way, it addresses ideas and issues that should undergird all of our teaching. What are the strategies that undergird successful comebacks? |
| So one of the most robust findings in the history of political psychology is this pattern identified by Jon Haidt and Jesse Graham, that liberals and conservatives tend to endorse different values to different degrees. | /roʊˈbʌst/ = vigorous = strong and full of determination; showing that you are sure about what you are doing or saying It was a typically robust performance by the Foreign Secretary. The company is taking a more robust approach to management. |
| And Matt and I were thinking that maybe this moral divide might be helpful for understanding how it is that liberals and conservatives talk to one another and why they so often seem to talk past one another when they do. It's really important for parents to try to improve communication with their teenagers because it's very easy to talk past one another. I thought there was agreement between us but we were merely talking past each other. | talk past each other/ one another = A situation where two or ore people talk about different subjects while believing they are talking about the same thing. In American politics the left and the right simply talk past each other without having any real dialogue. I know my parents' marriage is going to end in divorce—they constantly talk past each other. Our company brought in an outside expert who found we were talking past our customers rather than having a real dialogue. |
| People's moral values, they're their most deeply held beliefs. People are willing to fight and die for their values. Why are they going to give that up just to agree with you on something that they don't particularly want to agree with you on anyway? | c |
| So what would work better? Well, we believe it's a technique that we call moral reframing, and we've studied it in a series of experiments. | c |
| Another group of participants were assigned to read a really different essay that was designed to tap into the conservative value of moral purity. It was a pro-environmental essay as well, | 1. To gain access to some resource: The building tapped into the city's water supply. 2. To take advantage of some sentiment: The politician tapped into voter anger and won the election. When he ran out of money, he decided to tap into his trust fund. |
| And we've studied this on a whole slew of different political issues. | a slew of something = informal a large number of things a whole slew of cheap motels |
| So if you want to move conservatives on issues like same-sex marriage or national health insurance, it helps to tie these liberal political issues to conservative values like patriotism and moral purity. | c |
| All these studies have the same clear message: if you want to persuade someone on some policy, it's helpful to connect that policy to their underlying moral values. | /ˌʌndərˈlaɪɪŋ/= underlying causes, facts, ideas, etc. are the real or basic ones, although they are not obvious or directly stated Stress is the underlying cause / reason of many illnesses. There is an underlying assumption that new technology is always a good thing. |
| And when you say it like that it seems really obvious. Right? Like, why did we come here tonight? It's incredibly intuitive. | /ɪnˈtuːɪtɪv/= an intuitive idea is based on a feeling rather than on knowledge or facts He seemed to have an intuitive awareness of how I felt. an intuitive guess/judgment/understanding an intuitive system, method, piece of software, etc. is easy to use because the process of operating it is very obvious The new version has a more intuitive user interface. |
| Maybe instead it's a buddy cop movie. Just roll with it, just go with it please. You know the kind: there's a white cop and a black cop, or maybe a messy cop and an organized cop. Whatever it is, they don't get along because of this difference. | To adapt to a situation despite unexpected circumstances or challenges. I had no idea it was going to be a double date, but I decided to just roll with it, and it actually turned out to be fun. The first act dropped out, so we're on in five minutes. I know we thought we'd have more time, but we're just going to have to roll with it. |
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