Connecting with your Audience: Focusing on "Empathy and Respect"
The speaker in this TEDTalk argues that over the last year, The United States has become more polarized than ever before. If American citizens are struggling with civil discourse and polarization is on the rise, we must ask ourselves:
How do you prepare to persuade an audience with substantially different ideas from you?
As you watch the TEDTalk, consider the following questions:
Why do people with different beliefs often "talk past one another"?
How does recognizing bias, in ourselves and in those around us, relate to the ideas in this TEDTalk?
What can be done, according to the speaker, “to chip away at the polarization in our everyday lives”?
So What? How do these ideas relate to you as a student and as a citizen?