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0:00Бөлім 1: This is Ira Glass. 300s · Speaker 1
This is Ira Glass. On This American Life, we tell stories about when things change. Like for this guy, David, whose entire life took a sharp, unexpected, and very unpleasant turn. And it did take me a while to realize it's basically because…
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5:00Бөлім 2: surname count. 263s · Speaker 4
surname count. And the Spanish surname count was a count that was only done in the Southwest. You would be labeled Spanish surname if your name fell on this list that the U .S. Census Bureau had comprised of thousands of names culled from t…
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9:23Бөлім 3: black, Asian categories. 80s · Speaker 5
black, Asian categories. That's not us. Now, if you're a demographer, if you're a statistician, that seems like an incredible nightmare. Brown can mean Filipinos. Brown can be Native Americans. Brown can be South Asian Indians. This was a c…
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10:44Бөлім 4: How did they make it stick? 239s · Speaker 1
How did they make it stick? Yeah. So the census director literally picked up two phones. He called all the Latino advocacy groups that were being set up in Washington, D .C. at that time. What year is this? 1976, 1977. OK. They picked up th…
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After the break, what happens when American notions of race are imposed on a place where people have very different senses of themselves? A lot of people were just absolutely stunned. We had to create a whole separate codification for marki…
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16:08Бөлім 6: If the creation of the universe was translated into music, what would it sound like? 83s · Speaker 3
If the creation of the universe was translated into music, what would it sound like? Ideas about how to make sense of the incomprehensible. Most of science in general is actually intuitible. That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast. Listen on t…
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17:31Бөлім 7: Have you heard that McDonald's spicy chicken McNuggets made with spicy tempura and a blend of aged cayenne are back? 163s · Speaker 4
Have you heard that McDonald's spicy chicken McNuggets made with spicy tempura and a blend of aged cayenne are back? Remember to grab a few extra napkins. For a limited time at participating McDonald's. Pelosi. Whether you love her. One of …
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20:14Бөлім 8: She's a professor at Hunter College in New York. 125s · Speaker 8
She's a professor at Hunter College in New York. And a few years ago, she did a survey in Puerto Rico, as part of which she asked people a simple question, a seemingly simple question, which was, what is your racial identity? I decided for …
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22:19Бөлім 9: I'm just imagining like never having had to think about your racial identity in any way. 84s · Speaker 2
I'm just imagining like never having had to think about your racial identity in any way. Well, Puerto Ricans talk around race all the time. They just don't use the same terminology that we do here in the United States. There's a lot of refe…
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strategic Caribbean island, climaxes half a century as an American territory with the inauguration of the first governor elected by the people of Puerto Rico. That's Luis Munoz Marin. Right. Going forward, though, y 'all, we should always r…
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Our identity as Puerto Ricans was different from the identity of the U .S. This is Isar Godro, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico in the town of Calle. And she says one very important difference that Muñoz Marín saw between Puerto…
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27:22Бөлім 12: You know, that is a wonderful sentiment. 78s · Speaker 1
You know, that is a wonderful sentiment. It is. I wish it was true. And people often, you know, talk about mixed identity in the way he's talking about it, right? Like... Like as a bridge to some harmonious beige future. You know what I mea…
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That we did not need to document how many white people or how many black people because that ran counter to the idea of us being a mixed group of people. And if racism was not an issue, you didn't need to document, you know. in which way we…
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30:27Бөлім 14: 81 % of people on the island checked white as their race. 184s · Speaker 1
81 % of people on the island checked white as their race. Just white, no other boxes. Right. This didn't make sense for a Caribbean island. In fact, the white population in the United States was 76%. So in a way, we were, you know, even whi…
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33:32Бөлім 15: Ooh. What does that mean exactly? 81s · Speaker 6
Ooh. What does that mean exactly? What are they doing? Well, they're making a big ask of people on the island. They are asking them to, when they fill out the census form, when they answer that race question, they want them to check the box…
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34:54Бөлім 16: So how high do they want that number to get? 165s · Speaker 2
So how high do they want that number to get? Well, as high as they can get it. Because here's the interesting thing. They're not only asking dark -skinned Puerto Ricans to check the box for black. We are also encouraging people that are may…
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37:47Бөлім 17: A special thanks to our funder, the John D. 11s · Speaker 3
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