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You tell me.

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[Music]

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[People clapping]

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United - wait, ready.

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"United we win, divided we fall",

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It was a phrase that was commonly used 
during World War II,

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it was used by the Allies

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when they decided to
take arms against the Axis

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which was composed by the Italians,

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the Germans, the Japanese,

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and years later we would have 
our revenge against them

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when we decided to put ketchup on pizza,

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when we decided to put creme cheese on sushi,

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and perfected the german bratwurst

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when we turned it into "salchipulpos".

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You're welcome, world, you're welcome.

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"United we win, divided we fall" 
was a phrase used

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to create union and 
understanding in the world,

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because when the world unites

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to do amazing things, it turns out great.

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Just like Fridays For Future.

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This organization which is 
warning us about this problem

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we have, which is global warming.

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Or what about when the Mexican 
national football team plays

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we all put on our shirts, 
we literally put on our shirts

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or harder cases,

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when we decided to break 
the Guinness record

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of people dancing Thriller.

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Again, by Mexicans, 
you're welcome, world, again.

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But there is something which 
unites us more and that's hatred.

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We love hating, have you noticed?

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We're always looking for new ways to hate,

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be it the ending of Game of Thrones,

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or you're Luis Miguel's father 
and you did a lot of harm to your son,

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a classic,

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or you didn't tell your siblings 
where the corpse of your father is.

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It could happen to anyone.

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And I want to introduce you 
to my friend, the accordion

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because I don't know everything.
Actually, I do,

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but there are words that are difficult

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because I would say we love hating.

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And in Mexico,

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you either like soccer
or you go for America.

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there's no inbetween.

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But really people get so fired up

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and they're always attacking poor America

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well, I really don't care about that

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The stadiums get packed,
not to see your team win

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but to see America lose.

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We hate so much

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- and this is one of the topics 
I want to talk about today

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the virtue of the mighty 
American eagles, just kidding

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It's not true, it's not true.

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I'm here to talk about polarization,

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political polarization

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Alright,

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By definition this is polarization:

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extreme positions in ideologies.

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But hey, don't worry

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a lot of people must be 
getting scared and thinking

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that I'm going to behave 
like a Jehova's Witness

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Knock on their door, tell them 
what to think and what not

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and the PAN already exists,
I'm not interested in doing that too

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but sit tight because at the end 
there will be picture of kittens

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wearing human glasses, not yet though

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There are two types of polarization

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élite and mass

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the élite one refers 
to the people's ideals

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sorry, to those of the political parties

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and the mass one refers 
to the people's ideals.

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Right now we're experiencing a bizarre

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combination of the two

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because the political parties,
I don't know if you noticed,

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are stealing the people's ideals
in order to get voted.

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And this isn't even the worst,
further on I'm going to tell you

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what the worst in all of this is.

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Political polarization comes 
from a logical fallacy

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known as a "false dilemma"

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in which you a situation occurs

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and only two options are introduced

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as though they are the only available ones

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leaving out a third or a fourth option

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which could solve the problem

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but we ignore them

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and usually these two options are extreme.

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I'm going to make a very clear example:

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let's say I go to a restaurant
and I ask what's on the menu

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and they say: There's two things
there's this lettuce

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which was grown by Triqui children

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and it's going to give you diarrhea, ok?

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Or we have these hamburgers 
we call artery-blockers

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that are so rich, so delicious

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yes, they take away two years
off your life expectancy

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but who wants to live to 80 anyway?

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And that's what this is all about

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because political polarization
is like the Jonah Hill of politics

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the man knows no middle ground.

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But let's make some examples

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let's see what is happening in the world

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let's examine the clearest 
example there is

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the United States.

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In the Unites States 
there are two political parties:

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the democrats and the republicans

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and we live in a time when
Obama with the democrats

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was in charge and he did very well

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however, the republicans got their revenge

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and this man won.

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You know,

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Donald Trump won by 
polarizing his country

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he promised to erase absolutely
everything that Obama had done

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and he did that while riding an eagle

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waving an American flag 
with a rifle in his hand

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and exploding Mount Rushmore.

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This picture is real

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don't ask me how I got it

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it's a real picture, 
in case you were wondering, yes

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The United States did a 180° turn

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in its politics.

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And if you know someone who says

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they turned their life around by 360°

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this person is right

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because they were stupid, 
they had a complete turn around

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they reached a point where 
they could have been smart

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and then went back to being stupid

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because that doesn't happen.

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This joke was stolen from me 
by a damn fucking pacheco

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thanks Milton, don't worry.

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Let's examine other cases,
the case of Brazil

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Brazil, hey

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con Lula da Silva

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who was a leftist president

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and what do you know
it didn't work very well

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therefore, that they went to 
the extreme with Bolsonaro

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Bolsonaro, I'm gonna show like this

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like the "Bronco" is dancing samba

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it's a perfect example, let me tell you.

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Let's move on to the UK

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UK

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My god, UK

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the leader of the conservative party

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and person who left the car window open

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Boris Johnson
this person

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divided his country by saying

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"I want the UK to exit the EU"

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and this person is the Prime Minister.

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These things are actually 
happening in the world.

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What about Mexico?

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You know what Mexico is like, right? 
You know

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I don't need to explain how things

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work around here.

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But something I would 
really like to tell you

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is that everyone is extreme

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this hasn't been clear to us

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everyone is extreme

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and we don't understand that 
any extreme position

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is dangerous

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except him!

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Except that, they're all dangerous.

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And here comes my first question:

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No really, what's up with 
Boris Johnson's hair?

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It looks like they squeezed an orange

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and left it like that, that could be it.

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My real question is:

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What is the real danger 
of political polarization?

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Let's not forget that we're talking about

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élite polarization and mass polarization

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we said that they're gaining weight

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they're conquering people 
to conquer votes.

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but that's not the big issue

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I'm breathing heavily 
because it gives me courage.

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Because we're split 
into two groups, people

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they're splitting us into two groups

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and we're not even noticing.

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because they are obstinate in this

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they want to make us believe that 
you're either with one or with the other

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so we don't understand what's real.

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You are beginning to understand
what the point is now, huh?

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The worst offender is Twitter.

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It's Twitter.

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I don't know if you've 
ever been on Twitter

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You could put anything on Twitter

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"Tangerines are delicious."

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Doesn't matter!

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Someone is going to show up to tell you

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"AH, you think tangerines are delicious?
Mussolini loved tangerines.

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Do you like that, you damn fascist?"

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This is where we're at.

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It happened to me.