FIRST EXAM

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These videos and readings will “consume” about 4.5 hours of your time.

VIDEOS and AUDIO:

1. “Equity: The Thief of Human Potential” (16 min)

2. “The Cultural Frontline: Modi’s Hip-Hop Nation” (30 min)

3. “What We Wear at -71C” (5 min)

4. “This is Indian Relay, North America’s Original Extreme Sport” (13 min)

5. “Is Iceland the Best Place in the World to be a Woman? (12 min)

6. “The cultural genocide of Native Americans” (9 min)

7. “Tammy’s Story” (8 min)

8. “Living in IRAN. Reality vs. Media Myths! True” (20 min) 

READINGS:

1. “Posing like American farmers is the latest trend among Chinese influencers” (6 min)
** You can listen to this article by clicking on the audio link before the first photos and title

2. “Why Cristiano Ronaldo’s Engagement Raised Eyebrows in Saudi Arabia” (6 min)

3. “A Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were in Prison” (15 min)

4. “The Courtesy of Covering Up” (10 min)

5. “How the Right Claimed ‘Crunchy’” (18 min)

6. “How ‘Mr. Nobody’ in a Small-Town School Took on Putin” (10 min)

7. “'Soft Girl': The radical trend millennials love” (10 min)
** Just read the first article (and don’t keep scrolling down to other articles)

8. “Linguists speak of a new Language Dialect” (10 min)

9. “Always Late? Blame Your Time Personality” (7 min)

10. “How a Gen Z Revolution Spiraled Out of Control” (30 min)

11. “The Profound Comfort of Kimchi” (10 min)

12. “Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens?” (7 min)

13. “How one country plans to resettle planeloads of deportees from the U.S.” (15 min)