I am the president of the policy institute. I want to welcome you on this conversation on will the centerleft rise to the populist challenge . Together with the tony blair and so we are proud to present today a speech by and a conversation with the honorable tony blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain on this topic of the populist challenge. This event was originally scheduled as a public event in washington. Had several hundred people signed up to attend, but we had it we thought it was best given the Coronavirus Spread and contusion to cancel the public meeting, so we are Live Streaming today. Thank you for all who are joining us by livestream and thank you also and welcome to cspan and the cspan audience to todays conversation. This is obviously the subject of the state of emergency has been declared in washington, the subject on everybodys mind. We want to do our part to slow the spread of this terrible errors, but we also want to carry on with business as usual as much as w
Discussing the rise of populism in the uk and us and the future of progressive politics at George Washington university. Welcome to this conversation on will the centerleft rise to the challenge along with the Tony Blair Institute we are proud to present today as speech by in a conversation of the quite honorable tony blair former Prime Minister of Great Britain on this topic and what the progressives need to do to rise to it. Several hundred that was best given the Coronavirus Spread to cancel the Public Meeting so we are Live Streaming today thank you for joining us by live stream and also to cspan and the audience to todays conversation. This is obviously the subject of a state of emergency has been declared in washington and we want to do our part to slow down the spread of this virus but also carry on with business as usual is much as we can. Welcome to everybody on a personal note i want to say how pleased i am to see tony blair after being reunited after a long hiatus the Progre
Theres always potentially an infinite set of things you could notice about the world you could potentially try to remember about the world and language streamlet and to think about only some of those things to focus on only those things that the people before us who built the language over many generations those things they thought were most important those things got built into the language and so now those are the things that we tend to focus on in the structures that we tend to conform and the heat works also in very subtle ways we do not necessarily we kind of appropriate to ourselves to our own free will but without necessarily realizing that there are forces that imposing certain structures on ourselves you know we all take the language that we speak for granted its like the air that we breathe we dont notice it and in fact most of us believe that we simply perceive reality the way that it is in fact we know through many years of psychological experiments so thats very far from t
That there are forces that imposing certain structures on ourselves you know we all take the language that we speak for granted its like the air that we breathe we dont notice it and in fact most of us believe that we simply perceive reality the way that it is in fact we know through many years of psychological experiments so thats very far from the truth we dont see things just the way that they are instead the world that we the internal world we live in is highly constructed by the structures of our brains but also by the structures of our languages and cultures that tell us how to put things together we often talk about the symbiotic and reinforcing relationship with bin language and culture and its very hard for me personally to resist thinking about that relationship in cheek in that terms enough to sort of struggling with it for some time i wonder if its actually a fitting metaphor or not in terms of what comes 1st but the terms of how the to encapsulate reproduce one in. There y
When theyre speaking one language or not there or when theyve been exposed to more intent and language or less intent of language and see if they make different judgments we use the example of Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson having a wardrobe malfunction at the super bowl if we say timberlake rips the costume. People are much more likely to blame timberlake and they also want to charge him 53 percent more in fines than if we say the costume ripped even though theyre watching the same video now you mention. Language to universally distribute certain practices in english clearly is the lingo of all. Times. Do we understand the are there any indications of why it has been able to gain such a status isnt because its relatively easy to learn compared to other languages are other perhaps other. Factors contributing to that. Probably economic factors are the most important where English Speaking countries are driving a lot of Economic Growth and a lot of innovation that spreads to the res