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Hello, this is six-minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil.

And I'm Beth. Neil, when you're chatting with friends, do you usually have the same or

different opinion on things going on in the world? Oh, well, that's interesting.

I think I probably have quite similar opinions, and that's kind of why we're friends.

Ah, well, we might like to believe that we're accepting and tolerant of others' beliefs.

But for many people, it can be difficult to communicate with people who have very different opinions to our own. And this lack of acceptance could be increasing with our use of social media. For example,

algorithms tend to show us what we already like and agree with. Of course, we can't always agree

with everyone else. We all have personal opinions and beliefs on topics like religion and politics.

But some worry that it's becoming more and more common to react with violence when they disagree

than to solve disagreements together peacefully.

So are we becoming a more divided society?

Divided means in disagreement with and separated from others to not be

together. And how can we be more accepting and open to the opinions of others? That's what we'll be

discussing in this program and as usual, we'll be learning some useful new words and phrases.

Remember, you can find all the vocabulary from this programme on our website, BBClearningEnglish.com.

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