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Karen Murphy — The Long View, II: On Who We Can Become

On Being with Krista Tippett

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What's the Common Vocabulary?

When i was at the university of minnesota, there was a decision that there was going to be a required multicultural curriculum in the early nineteen nineties for american studies. I felt like a real moment. So we start conversations in this country, we sort of get to the edge, and then they become very particular among groups people. Do you have a guess about what that is about us? Why we do why we operate that way? Very historical, i think. Intolerant at times of complexity, a probably conflict. Avoident. A ha ha ha ha haha.

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