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He repeats that Chinese lacks a word that fully captures empathy as a technical concept, even though it has neighboring words such as sympathy and compassion.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on success, class, parenting, schools, and revolution: self-control turns out to be trust, parenting turns out to be strategy, social mobility turns out to be governance, and revolution...
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"know the sort of education that that really smart Americans Receive they go in the workplace expecting be treated as equals expecting expected to..."
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"Yeah, yeah, it's not empathy. Yeah and compassion. Is there a word for compassion? That's similar, but not quite. Yeah"
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"There's word for compassion, but you know empathy. It's a very much a technical term with a lot of connotations that just aren't captured..."
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"High vocabulary, low vocabulary. When rich parents speak to the kids, rich parents will use higher vocabulary, longer sentences. Poor parents will just be..."
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"...let's construct schools where kids are exposed to a lot of vocabulary. Where teachers are friendly. And where there's a lot of stability. Okay?..."
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"...sponsor these obligate their guests. Early Proto -Indo -European included a vocabulary about verbal contracts bound by oaths used in later religious rituals to..."
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"...think when you learn English, you're not just learning grammar and vocabulary. You are really learning a culture. A philosophy. An identity. All right?..."
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"...how poets transform civilization is they innovate in imagery, grammar, and vocabulary, OK? And when they do that, poets expand a civilization's structure. They..."
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"...anywhere between 20,000 to 30,000 different words. So his range of vocabulary was just vast. What's really unique about Shakespeare is he introduced anywhere..."
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"...empathy? But it does seem to be important to have a vocabulary for it You know, I mean they have an explicit vocabulary about..."
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"And how are you going to overcome that vocabulary problem of not having the word? Is it, like, you know, the word, you know,..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on success, class, parenting, schools, and revolution: self-control turns out to be trust, parenting turns out to be strategy, social mobility turns out to be governance, and revolution...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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Jiang begins with a vocabulary problem and turns it into a civilizational one.
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