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    Complete the following paragraph with the correct form of the words and expressions given below:normal and familiarcultural bias nationality bookcrying at the movies broadcasting brawllimitingreality uncomfortable complainingbone language make friendsPeople are conditioned from birth to think of certain things as 1)________; for example, when Americans hear the world “chair”, they think of the chairs that appear in their baby’s first words 2)_______, or those that are most familiar to them. They are not aware of their inherent 3)________until one day, they hear someone say “Suzy sat in the chair”, and are surprised to see that the “chair”does not match any of the chairs that exist in their mind. This mind control thing could cause problems when they are dealing with other people. For example, in American culture, being “manly”means “beating someone up in a _________, setting your own 5)________, wrestling a bear, growing a beard in a day, drinking a keg, bench pressing your own weight, surviving in the wilderness, never 6)_________ or flinching or heaven forbid crying”. However, this artificial concept of “manly”has no ties to 7)________.Nevertheless ,when they see a guy deviate from this concept by 8)_________,drinking a daiquiri or saying “I love you”to a friend, they feel 9)________.Although people can never totally get rid of their biases because they’re part of the 10)________that they use to describe and analyzethe world, theycan fight it both by correcting for their own bias and by 11)________how much of it they pass on. To correct for their inherent cultural bias, people should first recognize places where bias are likely to affect their judgment. For example, when they judge if someone is threatening, trustworthy, or innocent, they should ask themselves if the person were of a different sex or 12)_________or race, etc., would they still judge him or her the same way. In addition, they should deliberately 13)_________outside of their most familiar demographic. To limit the mind control ray of cultural bias ,people should keep themselves from 14)_______ it, such as avoiding telling jokes based on stereotypes to children who have not been exposed to such stereotypes. To sum up, most people have used their entire life to convey and reinforce totally artificialideas of how the world ought to be , but in fact, they can consciouslychange those ideas.


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