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Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.05,0:00:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,( applause )
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.42,0:00:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My students often ask me,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.55,0:00:31.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What is sociology?" and I tell them it's the study of the way
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.38,0:00:35.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.62,0:00:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they say "So, how can I be a sociologist?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.40,0:00:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"How can I understand those invisible forces?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.80,0:00:43.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I say, "Empathy."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.45,0:00:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Start with empathy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.44,0:00:50.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It all begins with empathy. Take yourself out of your shoes and put yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.52,0:00:52.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the shoes of another person.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.70,0:00:55.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, I'll give you an example.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.37,0:00:59.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I imagine my life if a hundred years ago, China had been
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.41,0:01:01.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most powerful nation in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.49,0:01:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they came to the United States in search of coal.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.10,0:01:08.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they found it, and in fact they found lots of it right here.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.05,0:01:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And pretty soon they began shipping that coal ton by ton,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.73,0:01:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rail car by rail car, boat load by boat load back to China
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.09,0:01:21.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and elsewhere around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.15,0:01:23.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they got fabulously weatlthy in doing so.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.39,0:01:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They built beautiful cities all powered on that coal.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.68,0:01:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And back here in the United States we saw economic despair, depravation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.68,0:01:42.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what I saw. I saw people struggling to get by,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.91,0:01:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not knowing what was what and what was next.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.28,0:01:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I asked myself a question.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.98,0:01:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say, "How is it possible that we can be so poor in the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.42,0:01:56.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the coal is such a wealthy resource. It's so much money?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.58,0:02:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I realize because the Chinese ingratiated themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.12,0:02:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a small ruling class here in the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.76,0:02:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who stole all of that money and all of that wealth for themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.20,0:02:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the rest of us, the vast majority of us struggle to get by.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.92,0:02:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Chinese gave this small ruling elite loads
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.80,0:02:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of military weapons and sophisticated technology in order to insure
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.23,0:02:25.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people like me would not speak out against this relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.34,0:02:28.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does this sound familiar?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.22,0:02:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they did things like train Americans to help protect the coal.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.20,0:02:36.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everywhere were symbols of the Chinese.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.42,0:02:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everywhere a constant reminder.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.01,0:02:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And back in China? What do they say in China? Nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.12,0:02:47.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't talk about us. They don't talk about the coal.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.17,0:02:49.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you ask them they'll say, "Well, you know, the coal?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.90,0:02:51.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need the coal. I mean, come on."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.29,0:02:56.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm not going to turn down my thermostat. You can't expect that."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.55,0:03:00.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I get angry and I get pissed,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.46,0:03:04.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as do lots of average people, and we fight back.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.82,0:03:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it gets really ugly and the Chinese respond in a very ugly way.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.36,0:03:12.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And before we know it they've sent in the tanks
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.69,0:03:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they've sent in the troops and lots of people are dying.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.41,0:03:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's a very, very difficult situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.25,0:03:28.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, can you feel me? Can you imagine what you would feel
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.55,0:03:30.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you were in my shoes?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.69,0:03:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine walking out of this building and seeing a tank
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.02,0:03:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sitting out there or a truck full of soldiers.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.68,0:03:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just imagine what you would feel because you know why they're here
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.77,0:03:44.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know what they're doing here, and you just feel the anger
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.30,0:03:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you feel the fear. Okay? If you can, that's empathy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.76,0:03:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's empathy. You've left your shoes and stood in mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.01,0:03:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you gotta feel that. Okay, so that's the warmup. That's the warmup.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.76,0:04:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we're going to have the real radical experiment.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.76,0:04:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so for the remainder of my talk what I want you to do
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.42,0:04:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is put yourselves in the shoes of an ordinary Arab Muslim
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.01,0:04:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,living in the Middle East, in particular in Iraq.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.06,0:04:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so to help you--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.02,0:04:23.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perhaps you're a member of this middle class family in Baghdad.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.34,0:04:26.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what you want is the best for your kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.11,0:04:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want your kids to have a better life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.95,0:04:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you watch the news. You pay attention. You read the newspaper.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.99,0:04:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You go down to the coffee shop with your friends.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.98,0:04:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you read the newspapers from around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.78,0:04:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes you even watch satellite CNN from the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.05,0:04:41.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you have a sense of what the Americans are thinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.35,0:04:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But really you just want a better life for yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.64,0:04:49.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what you want. You're Arab Muslim living in Iraq.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.41,0:04:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want a better life for yourself. So here, let me help you.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.94,0:04:55.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me help you with some things that you might be thinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.73,0:05:01.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number one, this incursion into your land these past twenty years and before?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.43,0:05:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason anyone's interested in your land in particular the United States?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.50,0:05:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.76,0:05:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's all about oil. You know that. Everybody knows that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.90,0:05:12.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People here back in the United States know it's about oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.19,0:05:17.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's because somebody else has a design for your resource.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.19,0:05:21.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's your resource. It's not somebody else's, right? It's your land.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.37,0:05:25.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's your resource. Somebody else has a design for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.51,0:05:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know why they have a design? You know why they have their eyes set on it?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.96,0:05:33.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they have an entire economic system that's dependent on that oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.41,0:05:37.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Foreign oil. Oil from other parts of the world that they don't own.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.63,0:05:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what else do you think about these people?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.84,0:05:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the Americans, they're rich! Come on, they live in big houses, they have big cars,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.77,0:05:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have blonde hair, blue eyes. They're happy. You think that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.36,0:05:52.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not true, of course, but that's the media impression. That's like what you get?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.79,0:05:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they have big cities and the cities are all dependent on oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.87,0:06:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And back home what do you see?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.34,0:06:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poverty, despair, struggle. Look, you don't live in a wealthy country.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.36,0:06:10.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean this is Iraq.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.69,0:06:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what you see -- you see people struggling to get by.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.20,0:06:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean it's not easy. You see a lot of poverty and you feel something about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.50,0:06:23.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people have designs for your resource, and this is what you see?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.07,0:06:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't feel good. But here, a couple other things?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.12,0:06:31.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something else you see that you talk about.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.34,0:06:32.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Americans don't talk about this, but you do.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.73,0:06:37.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's this thing this militarization of the world, and it's centered right in the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.87,0:06:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the United States is responsible for almost one half of the world's military spending.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.80,0:06:50.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Four per cent of the world's population and you feel it, you see it every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.23,0:06:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's part of your life and you talk about it with your friends.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.16,0:06:59.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You read about it. And back when Sadaam Hussein was in power?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.85,0:07:02.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Americans didn't care about his crimes.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.67,0:07:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran they didn't care about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.53,0:07:13.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When oil was at stake, somehow suddenly things mattered.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.91,0:07:16.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what you see? Something else?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.27,0:07:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The United States, the hub of democracy around the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.98,0:07:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't seem to really be supporting democratic countries all around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.74,0:07:29.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.43,0:07:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but supported by the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.48,0:07:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's odd.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.28,0:07:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, these incursions. Here, let me help you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.38,0:07:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These incursions? These two years wars? The ten years of sanctions?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.88,0:07:45.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The eight years of occupation?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.55,0:07:49.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The insurgency that's been unleashed on your people?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.17,0:07:57.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tens of thousand, the hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.41,0:08:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all because of oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.08,0:08:04.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't help but think that. You talk about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.15,0:08:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in the forefront of your mind always.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.15,0:08:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, "How is that possible? Come on."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.38,0:08:14.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this man?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.55,0:08:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's every man. Your grandfather, your uncle your father,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.50,0:08:23.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your son, your neighbor, your professor, your student --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.27,0:08:30.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wants a life of happiness and joy and suddenly pain and sorrow.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.63,0:08:36.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone in your country has been touched by the violence,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.90,0:08:39.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the bloodshed, the pain, the horror. Everybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.85,0:08:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not a single person in your country has not been touched.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.60,0:08:47.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here, but there's something else.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.21,0:08:51.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something else about these people, these Americans who are there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.26,0:08:54.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something else about them that you see. They don't see themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.19,0:08:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what do you see? They're Christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.09,0:09:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're Christians. They worship the Christian God.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.56,0:09:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have crosses, they carry bibles.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.58,0:09:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their Bibles have a little insignia that says U.S. Army on them.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.84,0:09:14.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And their leaders, their leaders, before they send their sons and
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.23,0:09:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,daughters off to war in your country, and you know the reason,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.86,0:09:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before they send them off, they go to a Christian church
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.66,0:09:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they pray to their Christian God
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.20,0:09:25.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they ask for protection and guidance from that god.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.32,0:09:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.40,0:09:32.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, obviously so that when people die in the war they are Muslims.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.97,0:09:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are Iraqis.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.84,0:09:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're not Americans.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.50,0:09:38.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't want Americans to die. Protect our troops.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.45,0:09:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you feel something about that. Of course you do?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.14,0:09:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they do wonderful things, beautiful humanitarian things,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.73,0:09:48.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but these humanitarians, I mean because these people, they're there
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.87,0:09:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you read about it, you hear about it, they're there to build schools
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.60,0:09:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and help people and that's what they want to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.12,0:09:57.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They do wonderful things, but they also do the bad things
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.33,0:09:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can't tell the difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.96,0:10:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so you don't.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.02,0:10:03.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this guy, you got a guy like Lieutenant General William Boykin.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.31,0:10:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, here's a guy that says that your god is a false god.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.53,0:10:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your god is an idol. His god is the true god. The solution to the problem in the Middle East
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.57,0:10:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,according to him is to convert you all to Christianity.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.71,0:10:15.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just get rid of your religion.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.83,0:10:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know that.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.64,0:10:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Americans don't read about this guy.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.52,0:10:20.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't know anything about him, but you do.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.47,0:10:22.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You pass it around, you pass his words around.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.90,0:10:25.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean this is serious. You're afraid.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.34,0:10:28.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was one of the leading commanders in the second invasion of Iraq,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.91,0:10:31.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're thinking "My god, if this guy is saying that,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.36,0:10:34.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then all the soldiers must be saying that."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.13,0:10:34.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.63,0:10:37.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This word here. George Bush called this war a "crusade."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.47,0:10:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man, the Americans they're just like, "Crusade, whatever, I don't know what that means."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.44,0:10:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what it means. It's a Holy War against Muslims.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.08,0:10:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, invade, subdue them, take their resources. If they won't submit, kill them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.68,0:10:53.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what this is about.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.02,0:10:56.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're thinking "My god, these Christians are coming to kill us."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.58,0:10:58.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is frightening. You feel frightened.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.83,0:11:02.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course you feel frightened?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.09,0:11:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course you feel frightened.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.48,0:11:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why wouldn't you feel frightened.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.88,0:11:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this man, Terry Jones, I mean here's a guy wants to burn Korans, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.16,0:11:19.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Americans, "Oh what, he's a knucklehead, he's a former hotel manager,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.21,0:11:20.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's got three dozen members of his church",
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.87,0:11:23.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they laugh him off. You don't laugh him off.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.59,0:11:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because in the context of everything else, all the pieces fit.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.66,0:11:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean of course this is how the Americans think,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.73,0:11:32.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so people all over the Middle East, not just in your country are protesting.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.30,0:11:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants to burn Korans, our holy book.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.16,0:11:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These Christians, Who are these Christians? They're so evil, they're so mean.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.05,0:11:40.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean this is what they're about?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.88,0:11:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what you're thinking as an Arab Muslim, as an Iraqi.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.86,0:11:48.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course you're going to think this. How can you not think this?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.73,0:11:52.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then your cousin says "Hey, cuz, check out this website.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.81,0:11:55.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You gotta see this Christian, this Bible Boot Camp.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.36,0:11:59.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These Christians are nuts. They're training their little kids to be soldiers for Jesus."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.81,0:12:01.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they take these little kids, and they run them through these things
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.99,0:12:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they teach them how to say "Sir, yes, sir!", and play games like grenade toss,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.45,0:12:07.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and weapons care and maintenance.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.59,0:12:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And go to the website. It says U.S. Army right on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.80,0:12:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean these Christians they're nuts!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.70,0:12:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How would they do this to their little kids?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.20,0:12:16.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you're reading this website and of course Christians
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.25,0:12:18.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back in the United States or anybody says
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.69,0:12:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Aw, this is a little tiny church in the middle of nowhere."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.30,0:12:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't know that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.10,0:12:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For you, this is all Christians.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.57,0:12:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all over the web -- Bible Boot Camp.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.03,0:12:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And look at this. They even teach their kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.19,0:12:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They train them in the same way the U.S. Marines train.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.53,0:12:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't that interesting?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.02,0:12:38.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it scares you and it frightens you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.10,0:12:40.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So these guys? You see them?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.35,0:12:43.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see I, Sam Richards, I know who these guys are.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.47,0:12:45.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're my students, my friends. I mean I know what they're thinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.99,0:12:47.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.97,0:12:53.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you see them they're something else. They're something else.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.31,0:12:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what they are to you. (Christian Invaders)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.14,0:12:58.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't see it that way in the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.30,0:13:03.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you see it that way?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.91,0:13:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here. Of course, you got it wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.72,0:13:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're generalizing, it's wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.50,0:13:14.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't understand the Americans. It's not a Christian invasion.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.19,0:13:16.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not just there for oil. We're there for lots of reasons.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.39,0:13:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you have it wrong. You've missed it.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.36,0:13:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course most of you don't support the insurgency,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.00,0:13:25.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't support killing Americans, you don't support the terrorists.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.79,0:13:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course you don't. Very few people do. But some of you do?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.20,0:13:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is a perspective.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.02,0:13:35.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, so now, so here's what we're going to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.73,0:13:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Step outside of your shoes that you're in right now
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.67,0:13:44.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and step back into your normal shoes, so everyone's back in the room, okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.45,0:13:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now here comes the radical experiment.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.90,0:13:50.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're all back home.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.33,0:13:52.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This photo. This woman?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.49,0:13:55.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man, I feel her. I feel her.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.93,0:14:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's my sister, my wife, my cousin, my neighbor, she's anybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.68,0:14:04.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These guys standing there, everybody in the photo?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.35,0:14:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel this photo, man.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.96,0:14:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here's what I want you to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.62,0:14:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's go back to my first example of the Chinese, okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.71,0:14:16.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I want you to go there, so it's all about coal
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.57,0:14:18.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Chinese are here in the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.41,0:14:23.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want you to picture her as a Chinese woman receiving a Chinese flag
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.30,0:14:28.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because her loved one has died in America in the coal uprising.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.77,0:14:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the soldiers are Chinese and everybody else is Chinese.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.99,0:14:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay? As an American, how do you feel about this picture?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.20,0:14:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you think about that scene?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.74,0:14:44.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, try this.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.24,0:14:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bring it back. This is the scene, here. It's an American,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.60,0:14:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American soldiers, American woman who lost her loved one in the Middle East,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.71,0:14:53.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Iraq or Afghanistan?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.85,0:14:55.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now put yourself in the shoes
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.99,0:15:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of an Arab Muslim living in Iraq.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.21,0:15:06.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are you feeling and thinking about this photo,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.97,0:15:10.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about this woman?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.17,0:15:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.09,0:15:20.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, now follow me on this.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.86,0:15:22.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I'm taking a big risk here.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.91,0:15:28.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I'm going to invite you to take a risk with me, okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.91,0:15:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay so these gentlemen here, they're insurgents.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.52,0:15:36.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were caught by the American soldiers trying to kill Americans.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.51,0:15:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And maybe they succeeded. Maybe they succeeded?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.83,0:15:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Put yourself in the shoes of the Americans who caught them.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.53,0:15:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you feel the rage?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.60,0:15:52.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you feel that you just want to take these guys and wring their necks?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.41,0:15:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, can you go there? It shouldn't be that difficult.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.72,0:16:00.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know you just feel, "Aw, man!"
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.81,0:16:10.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, now, put yourself in their shoes.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.87,0:16:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are they brutal killers
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.89,0:16:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or patriotic defenders?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.76,0:16:18.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which one?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.55,0:16:25.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you feel their anger, their fear, their rage
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.93,0:16:27.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at what has happened in their country?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.99,0:16:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine that maybe one of them in the morning
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.54,0:16:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bent down to their child and hugged their child and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.10,0:16:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Dear, I'll be back later. I'm going out to defend your freedom, your lives."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.10,0:16:49.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm going out to look out for us, the future of our country."
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.19,0:16:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine that? Can you imagine saying that?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.25,0:16:57.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you go there?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.85,0:17:00.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you think they're feeling?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.65,0:17:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.96,0:17:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see that's empathy.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.40,0:17:12.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.74,0:17:18.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, you might ask, "Okay, Sam, so why do you do this sort of thing?"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.17,0:17:20.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why would you use this example of all examples?"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.62,0:17:27.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I say because you're allowed to hate these people.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.07,0:17:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're allowed to just hate them with every fiber of your being.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.08,0:17:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aAd if I can get you to step into their shoes
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.84,0:17:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and walk in inch, one tiny inch,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.12,0:17:44.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then imagine the kind of sociological analysis that you can do
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.15,0:17:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all other aspects of your life.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.58,0:17:51.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can walk a mile when it comes to understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.17,0:17:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why that person is driving 40 miles per hour in the passing lane,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.64,0:17:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or your teenage son, or your neighbor
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.60,0:18:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who annoys you by cutting his lawn on Sunday mornings.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.36,0:18:07.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever it is, you can go so far -- and this is what I tell my students.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.93,0:18:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Step outside of your tiny little world.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.44,0:18:16.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Step inside of the tiny little world of somebody else.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:16.21,0:18:19.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then do it again, and do it again, and do it again
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.41,0:18:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and suddenly all of these tiny little worlds
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.38,0:18:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they come together in this complex web
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.70,0:18:26.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they build a big complex world.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.65,0:18:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And suddenly without realizing it you're seeing the world differently.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.55,0:18:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything has changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:33.30,0:18:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything in your life has changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.10,0:18:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's of course what this is about.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.22,0:18:43.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Attend to other lives, other visions.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.70,0:18:48.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to other people. Enlighten ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.15,0:18:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so what I will say here is, I'm not saying that I support the terrorists in Iraq.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.42,0:19:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as a sociologist, what I am saying is I understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.38,0:19:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now perhaps, perhaps, you do too.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.59,0:19:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.61,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,( applause )