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Cross-cultural communication can seem immensely difficult in theory when we're trying to imagine making sense of a stranger in the abstract, but the great lesson of anthropology is that when the stranger is no longer imaginary but real and present, sharing a human social life, you may like or dislike him, you may agree or disagree, but if it's what you both want, you can make sense of each other in the end.

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and her mother, who's a doctor, under the Taliban. And if anybody has a kind of abstract concern or understanding of what was bad about the Taliban, this movie can give them a very concrete sense of something that was very bad about it. And then the other day I saw another movie, actually, believe it or not, an Iran-Iraq co-production. So whoever it is that's representing the National

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are not abstract anymore because of this movie. So I really do think that here is a place where literature and the arts have a very powerful potential, and that means that education has a great potential. If we make our educational system more cosmopolitan, if we expose people more to the full range of wonderful cultural work that's produced by

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Now, I'm going to stop here to be polite to you for a second, but this goes on for hours, hours, and hours, and it gets so weird and abstract at the end.

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abstract and i think it's possible to value in different countries different traits of character without thinking that uh we should all behave like that or or something like that um that that that if you like um human values unnecessarily incarnated in different ways which bring out different concrete facets so i i think you know one can go beyond the idea that we should only be attached to abstract

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things um but i think there's also an area where that the abstract meets the concrete if you like and i suppose one of the things um that i was trying to indicate in that piece was the way um the english perhaps value both privacy and community that that they are uh they're not complete individualists maybe less individualists that than americans are but they they certainly value privacy and a space to

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local identities, but I'm insisting that they're complex and overwhelming. So I'm kind of resisting either a purely abstract idea of the international, if you like, or a kind of fetishistic, activistic concrete, you know, where your culture is over-politicized. We need neither of those things. And I think Christianity, especially Catholic Christianity, is linked to this idea that it

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They stand out not just for their craftsmanship, but also for the fact that earlier depictions of human forms are either more abstract or generalized, but because these depictions of Guda are more realistic, are so similar to each other, and have been found spread so widely, it's tenable that they're similar to the actual face of the actual individual as he appeared in life, the first known illustrated person in our history.

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The brain did not evolve to prioritize long-term goals, abstract targets, or heroic self-control.

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Studying, for example, is a task that requires focus, energy, and offers an abstract return, knowledge that will only be useful in the future.

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We can use 'give' with other abstract nouns as well.

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You can even draw an arbitrary abstract shape that continues through both your main highlights if you have two like mine. Then blend it.

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Now, at C1, you are expected to handle that plus a wide range of topics, including unfamiliar and abstract ones, with little hesitation.

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You see, now that is a much more abstract topic, isn't it?

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For you to be able to give a proper response to this question, you need not only more vocabulary, but also the ability to form abstract arguments and express complex opinions.

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words with articles, which means learn it with plurals as well. So you can learn like "der Tisch" means table, really good, but "die Tische" means tables. And preferably learn this in a sentence also. So when it comes to basic vocabulary like objects around the house or different food, you're going to learn them with articles and with plurals, but when it comes to more abstract stuff, try to combine them

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with describing this popular sub-genre. The early 90s was an era in which alternative rock expanded greatly. Dance and party music had already lost; people began to like alternative rock more, and artists began to focus more on alternative rock. The music of that era was more abstract-oriented. The early 90s also saw a lot of

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It's amazing to me there's room between physics and biology for chemistry if you actually think about it. I mean, some of my best friends are chemists from Cambridge and we used to talk about this quite a lot. It's like, how can there be a subject chemistry where you can sort of abstract away the physics and the quantum physics and everything, and you don't have to get as complicated as these amazing emergent systems that life has, and it's sort of studyable on its own and you can sort of separate it or approximate it up and down.

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It was abstract, invisible, and there was something about it that seemed irrational.

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This is my function! They'd rather abstract than go on your adventures. Th-- That can't be true!

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