Let's try emotional correctness | Sally Kohn

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Translator: Alba Mas Reviewer: Silvia Espinar Martínez
00:13
So when I do my job, people hate me.
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Quan treballo, la gent m'odia.
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In fact, the better I do my job,
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De fet, com més bé treballo,
00:19
the more people hate me.
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més m'odia la gent.
I no, no poso multes,
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And no, I'm not a meter maid,
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ni sóc una enterramorts.
00:23
and I'm not an undertaker.
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Sóc una lesbiana progressista que presenta
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I am a progressive, lesbian talking head on Fox News.
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les notícies a la Fox. (aplaudiment)
00:29
(Applause)
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00:31
So y'all heard that, right? Just to make sure, right?
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Ho heu sentit bé, oi? De veritat, eh?
00:33
I am a gay talking head on Fox News.
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Sóc una presentadora homosexual a les notícies de la Fox.
00:36
I am going to tell you how I do it,
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Us explicaré com ho faig
00:38
and the most important thing I've learned.
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i la cosa més important que he après.
00:40
So I go on television.
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Bé, doncs, surto a la tele
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I debate people who literally want to obliterate everything I believe in --
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a debatre amb gent que vol destruir literalment
tot allò en que crec, en alguns casos,
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in some cases, who don't want me and people like me to even exist.
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que voldrien que jo i la gent com jo no existíssim.
00:50
It's sort of like Thanksgiving with your conservative uncle
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És una mica com un dinar familiar, amb aquell oncle conservador
però com si hagués pres drogues,
00:54
on steroids,
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00:55
with a live television audience of millions.
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a la tele, amb milions d'espectadors.
00:58
It's totally almost just like that.
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És ben bé així.
01:01
And that's just on air.
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I en directe.
01:03
The hate mail I get is unbelievable.
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Rebo moltíssims correus desagradables.
01:05
Last week alone, I got 238 pieces of nasty email
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Només la setmana passada, vaig rebre'n 238,
01:10
and more hate tweets than I can even count.
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i més tweets de rebuig dels que puc comptar.
01:13
I was called an idiot, a traitor, a scourge,
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Em van tractar d'idiota, de traïdora, de xacra,
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a cunt and an ugly man,
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de puta i d'home lleig,
01:19
and that was just in one email.
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i tot això en un sol correu electrònic.
01:21
(Laughter)
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(riures)
01:24
So what have I realized,
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Així doncs, de què m'he adonat
01:26
being on the receiving end of all this ugliness?
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en rebre tots aquests insults?
01:29
Well, my biggest takeaway
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Bé, el que em sembla és que fa molts anys
01:31
is that for decades, we've been focused on political correctness,
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que ens centrem en allò políticament correcte,
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but what matters more is emotional correctness.
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però en realitat és més important allò emocionalment correcte.
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Let me give you a small example.
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Us en donaré un petit exemple:
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I don't care if you call me a dyke. I really don't.
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m'és igual si em dieu "bollera". De veritat.
01:44
I care about two things.
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M'importen dues coses:
Primer, que ho sapigueu escriure.
01:46
One, I care that you spell it right.
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01:48
(Laughter) (Applause)
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(riures, aplaudiments)
01:53
Just quick refresher, it's D-Y-K-E.
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Us ho recordo, s'escriu amb B alta.
01:57
You'd totally be surprised.
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Us en sorprendríeu.
02:00
And second, I don't care about the word, I care about how you use it.
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I segon, m'és igual la paraula,
m'importa com la feu servir.
02:03
Are you being friendly? Are you just being naive?
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Sou afectuosos? Potser tan sols ingenus?
02:05
Or do you really want to hurt me personally?
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O el que voleu és fer-me mal?
02:09
Emotional correctness is the tone, the feeling,
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La correcció emocional és el to, el sentiment,
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how we say what we say,
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Com diem el que diem,
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the respect and compassion we show one another.
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El respecte i la compassió que ens tenim.
02:19
And what I've realized is that political persuasion
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I m'he adonat que per convèncer políticament
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doesn't begin with ideas or facts or data.
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no es comença amb idees, fets o dades.
02:26
Political persuasion begins with being emotionally correct.
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Per convèncer, en política, cal ser emocionalment correcte.
02:30
So when I first went to go work at Fox News,
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Quan vaig començar a treballar a les notícies de la Fox,
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true confession,
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ho confesso,
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I expected there to be marks in the carpet
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m'esperava veure marques a la moqueta
02:37
from all the knuckle-dragging.
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d'arrossegar les mans [com goril·les, perquè tenen actituds "primitives"].
02:39
That, by the way, in case you're paying attention, is not emotionally correct.
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Això, per cert, ho dic per si esteu atents, no és emocionalment correcte.
02:43
But liberals on my side,
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Però els liberals com jo
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we can be self-righteous, we can be condescending,
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Podem ser fariseus, podem ser condescendents
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we can be dismissive of anyone who doesn't agree with us.
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podem ser despectius amb tot aquell que no comparteixi les nostres opinions.
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In other words, we can be politically right
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És a dir, podem tenir raó, políticament,
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but emotionally wrong.
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però no tenir-ne emocionalment.
I per cert, això vol dir
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And incidentally, that means that people don't like us. Right?
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que no agradem a la gent. Oi?
I ara ve el pitjor:
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Now here's the kicker.
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Els conservadors són molt simpàtics.
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Conservatives are really nice.
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03:09
I mean, not all of them,
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Bé, no tots;
els que m'envien correus desagradables, no,
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and not the ones who send me hate mail,
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03:12
but you would be surprised.
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però us en sorprendríeu.
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Sean Hannity is one of the sweetest guys I've ever met.
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En Sean Hannity és un dels homes més amables
que he conegut mai.
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He spends his free time trying to fix up his staff on blind dates,
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El temps lliure que té, se'l passa
buscant cites a cegues per al seu personal;
i sé que si mai tinc algun problema,
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and I know that if I ever had a problem,
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ell faria tot el que pogués per ajudar-me.
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he would do anything he could to help.
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03:27
Now, I think Sean Hannity is 99 percent politically wrong,
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Bé. Jo penso que en Sean Hannity
està equivocat en un 99%, políticament,
però la seva correcció emocional és molt impressionant,
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but his emotional correctness is strikingly impressive.
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03:36
And that's why people listen to him.
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i per això la gent l'escolta.
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Because you can't get anyone to agree with you
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Perquè no pots arribar a convèncer ningú
si no t'escolten abans.
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if they don't even listen to you first.
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03:43
We spend so much time talking past each other
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Passem molt temps parlant sense escoltar,
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and not enough time talking through our disagreements.
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i no prou temps solucionant allò en que no estem gens d'acord,
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And if we can start to find compassion for one another,
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i si podem començar a sentir compassió els uns pels altres,
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then we have a shot at building common ground.
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aleshores potser podrem construir afinitats.
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It actually sounds really hokey to say it standing up here,
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Ja sé que sona artificial
dient-ho des d'aquí d'alt,
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but when you try to put it in practice,
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però quan intentes posar-ho en pràctica,
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it's really powerful.
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de veritat que funciona molt.
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So someone who says they hate immigrants,
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Així doncs, si algú diu que odia els immigrants,
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I try to imagine how scared they must be
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intento imaginar-me la por que tenen,
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that their community is changing from what they've always known.
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perquè la comunitat canvia i ja no és allò que ells coneixen tan bé.
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Or someone who says they don't like teachers' unions,
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O algú que diu que no li agraden les unions de professors,
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I bet they're really devastated to see their kid's school going into the gutter,
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segur que els hi fa molta pena veure
que l'escola dels seus fills fa aigües,
i tan sols volen donar-n'hi la culpa a algú.
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and they're just looking for someone to blame.
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04:23
Our challenge is to find the compassion for others
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El nostre repte és tenir compassió pels altres,
tanta com volem que ens en tinguin a nosaltres.
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that we want them to have for us.
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04:30
That is emotional correctness.
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Això és la correcció emocional.
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I'm not saying it's easy.
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No dic pas que sigui fàcil.
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An average of, like, 5.6 times per day
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Cada dia, unes 5,6 vegades de mitjana,
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I have to stop myself from responding to all of my hate mail
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he d'autoconvèncer-me de no respondre
tots aquests e-mails amb tot de paraulotes vils.
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with a flurry of vile profanities.
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04:43
This whole finding compassion and common ground with your enemies thing
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Tot això de trobar compassió
i afinitats amb els teus enemics
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is kind of like a political-spiritual practice for me,
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és una mena de pràctica política-espiritual, per mi,
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and I ain't the Dalai Lama.
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i no sóc pas el Dalai Lama.
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I'm not perfect, but what I am is optimistic.
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No sóc perfecte, però sí que sóc optimista,
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Because I don't just get hate mail.
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perquè no només rebo correus desagradables.
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I get a lot of really nice letters, lots of them.
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Rebo moltes cartes amables, moltíssimes.
Una de les meves preferides comença així:
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And one of my all-time favorites begins:
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05:10
"I am not a big fan of your political leanings
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"No m'agrada gaire la teva tendència política,
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or your sometimes tortured logic,
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ni la teva lògica estranya,
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(Laughter)
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però m'agrades molt tu, com a persona."
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but I'm a big fan of you as a person."
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05:22
Now this guy doesn't agree with me -- yet.
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Aquest noi no està d'acord amb mi, encara.
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(Laughter)
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(Riures)
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But he's listening --
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Però m'escolta, no pel que dic,
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not because of what I said, but because of how I said it.
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sinó per com ho he dit,
i d'alguna manera, tot i que no ens coneixem,
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And somehow, even though we've never met, we've managed to form a connection.
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hem aconseguit construir una connexió.
Això és la correcció emocional,
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That's emotional correctness,
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05:41
and that's how we start the conversations
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i és així com comencem les converses
que de veritat aconseguiran el canvi.
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that really lead to change.
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05:45
Thank you.
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Moltes gràcies.
05:47
(Applause)
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(Aplaudiment)
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