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🗓️ 17 April 2024
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All over the world, young men are identifying more with the political right, even as women drift more to the left. What is behind the gulf, and how to close it? The seeming drop in crime in Naples is not because the notorious mafia activity has disappeared—it has evolved (10:11). And exploring the history and the present of the flat white (17:08).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. I'm Ora Okenby. |
| 0:15.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:21.0 | Naples has left. shaping your world. |
| 0:24.0 | Naples has long had a reputation as a mafia hotspot. |
| 0:28.0 | For a while there were quarters that tourists just didn't go to. |
| 0:31.0 | Now though bars and restaurants are packed with them and here's |
| 0:35.1 | the curious part who's running those venues many of the same mafiosi. |
| 0:39.7 | And Australia has given the world many good things, the best edition of Master Chef, incredibly |
| 0:47.8 | cute koala's, and as I'm sure you didn't know, Australia is also credited with the flat white. We take a look at how |
| 0:55.2 | the cups of foamy goodness came to be. But first. |
| 1:07.0 | Ask a young person for a look at their tick-tock or Instagram feeds, |
| 1:10.0 | ask a young person for a look at their Tik-Tock or Instagram feeds, |
| 1:13.6 | and you'll see that their videos reflect their tastes, |
| 1:17.0 | music they like or some specific hobby, |
| 1:20.0 | and the algorithms bring you more of what you like. |
| 1:23.8 | So my timeline is mostly filled with people like Grace Beverly, who runs Tarla. |
| 1:28.6 | And this all ties into the fact that we demand women to be attractive. |
| 1:31.7 | And then at the same time we tell them that if they |
| 1:33.3 | value their looks they're vapid. But a young man's timeline may look somewhat different. |
| 1:40.2 | They are more likely to see videos from someone like Andrew Tate, a misogynistic former kickboxer. |
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