What does 'living in a bubble' mean? - The English We Speak
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Hello. This is The English We Speak
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with me, Feifei...
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...and me, Roy.
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Roy, what are you holding?!
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This? It's a sword.
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I can see it's a sword!
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Why do you have one?
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Well, I overheard you saying your
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friend Sandra is living in a bubble -
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so I asked my pal
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at the museum if I could borrow a sword
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to help your friend escape!
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No, Roy - I said 'Sandra lives in a bubble',
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but it means that
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she doesn't really accept
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new ideas and all her friends have the
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same way of thinking.
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'Living in a bubble' is the
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expression we're looking at
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in this programme.
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Ahhh, that makes more sense.
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I just imagined that might have
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got stuck in a bubble after
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washing her hands.
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Roy, your imagination never ceases
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to amaze me. You know what
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we should do?
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I think we should listen
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to some examples...
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Bob and his friends think that climate
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change isn't real. They live in a bubble.
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Nelson lives in a bubble. He never tries
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new food or goes out with new people.
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Geraldine doesn't want to meet my new
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friends - she thinks they live in a bubble.
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This is The English We Speak from
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BBC Learning English, and
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we're talking about the expression
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'living in a bubble' which is used to
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describe someone who doesn't
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listen to people with
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different ideas, or maybe
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is a little sheltered from society.
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I think it's sad when people live
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in a bubble because they don't
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get to experience new ideas
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or have their minds changed.
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I don't live in a bubble. It's why I like
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working with you - because you
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have very different
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ideas to me and I like to listen to them.
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You're always wrong, but I still like you.
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Thanks Feifei - I guess I should take
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this sword back to the museum.
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You should. Bye, Roy.
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Bye.
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