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Chatterbox #302 – What is cancel culture?

Culips Everyday English Podcast

Culips English Podcast

Self-improvement, Education, Language Learning, Courses

4.8968 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this Chatterbox episode, Andrew and Anna discuss the controversial topic of cancel culture. Cancel culture refers to the recent culture of mass criticism and ostracization of people in power after they have said or done something offensive. Because of social media, word spreads quickly when famous people commit a crime or even simply say something inappropriate. The responses to these behaviours can happen so fast that an actor could go from beloved celebrity to hated figure overnight. But is this culture helping or hurting us? If you’ve got an opinion on this topic, this is the perfect episode for you— listen and see if you agree with Anna and Andrew’s thoughts! Fun facts One of the first notable uses of “cancelled” meaning “to force someone out of a position of power” is in the 1991 Wesley Snipes action movie New Jack City. Since then, the verb “to cancel” gradually grew in popularity, but the term “cancel culture” only became popular in the late 2010s. Expressions included in the study guide Behind the scenes To not sit well with In the spotlight To shut someone out To bounce back To push the limit Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: Rodolpho Zanardo (pexels.com)

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. My name is Andrew and my name is Anna and you're listening to the

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Culeps English podcast. cast.

0:20.0

Hello everyone, welcome back to Kuleps. This is Chatterbox. The Kuleps series for intermediate and advanced English learners that features natural unedited

0:26.6

conversations between native speakers about compelling topics or trending current events or hot issues.

0:35.0

And today I am joined by my co-host Anna.

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Hey there, Anna.

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Hi Andrew and hello listeners.

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Now today we've got a really fascinating topic prepared for you all and we're going to be talking about cancel culture which has had an absolutely huge impact on the pop culture of English-speaking

0:56.1

countries over the last several years. So Andrew, we're going to dive into this

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topic and we're going to start by explaining it and breaking it down for you all and then we're going to share our thoughts and opinions about it.

1:07.6

That sounds awesome Anna and I'm really looking forward to our chat. I think this is an important topic to talk about,

1:15.5

but before we get started, why don't we remind everyone about the study guide for this episode? So listeners in the study guide for this episode.

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So listeners, in the study guide,

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you'll be able to find detailed vocabulary definitions

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and examples, a quiz, and also prompts that you could use for speaking and writing practice.

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Now we recommend following along with the study guide while you listen to this episode

1:42.0

and to get the guide all you need to do is sign up

1:45.8

and become a Q-Lops member and you can find all the details about how to do that and

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sign up on our website which is

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QL-I-P-S-com. Becoming a member helps support the work that we do here at Q-L-L-E- access to the learning materials and tools that we make to help you improve your English and get fluent faster.

2:14.3

At the start of each episode, we always love to give a shout

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out to one of our listeners who has left us a review or a message.

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