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🗓️ 8 May 2015
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to easy English expressions. |
0:11.0 | You and me every day, come on, let's master English. |
0:26.4 | Hello everybody. |
0:31.1 | Welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast. |
0:33.8 | Oh, I like today's expression. |
0:43.6 | It is a token American. A token American. Hmm, is this a good expression or a bad expression? Well, sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad. If you don't like America, then a |
0:53.0 | token American probably has a negative nuance. Maybe a token American |
0:59.6 | is not sensitive to your country or your culture. Maybe a token American is really fat. Maybe a token American is very loud. Maybe a token |
1:15.5 | American cannot speak your language. Maybe a token American only thinks about money or only |
1:23.6 | thinks about business. Maybe a token American doesn't know anything about soccer, or as the world says, football. |
1:33.8 | But if you like America, then maybe a token American is somebody who's very nice and interested in you. Or maybe a token American is somebody who's very nice and interested in you. |
1:46.0 | Or maybe a token American is somebody who tries to help you, who tries to give you their time or assistance. |
1:54.0 | Maybe a token American is an entrepreneur. |
1:59.0 | Somebody who starts their own business, creates a new business, and creates jobs. |
2:05.5 | Hmm, a token American. |
2:07.6 | It's a stereotype. |
2:09.7 | It's the image you have of an American, a typical American. |
2:16.9 | So if you like America, your image is probably different than if you don't like America. |
2:24.9 | It's true. |
2:26.4 | I'm wondering, in your mind, what is a token American? |
2:32.7 | Now, we can, of course, talk about any country. |
2:36.7 | A token German, a token Russian, a token Brazilian, a token Japanese guy, a token, whatever. |
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