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我们一直避免的对话
当美国人努力记住如何跨越差异进行对话时，一个校园项目正在教学生练习表达分歧......
来源:DiverseCan We Talk.不，真的，我们可以坐下来谈谈吗？
如果有一句话是我从学生、教师和管理人员那里听到最多的一句话，那就是它的某种版本：我们不再知道如何彼此交谈。不跨越政治通道。 Not across the pew.甚至连餐桌对面都没有。 We have become a nation of parallel monologues, each of us shouting into our own echo chamber and calling it conversation.
That is why I keep coming back to a program that is quietly doing something radical on 277 college campuses in 46 states. It is called Unify America,and I believe every college and university in this country needs to take a hard look at what it is building.
Unify America 总统米歇尔·索贝尔 (Michelle Sobel) 是这样表述的：成为一名高效公民所需的技能和高效工作所需的技能是相同的技能——倾听、保持好奇心以及在不离开谈判桌的情况下表达不同意见的能力。 That is not a soft, feel-good talking point, but a survival skill for a democracy that has forgotten how to argue in good faith.
这是它的工作原理。 A student signs up for a slot, almost like buying a movie ticket.他们与来自该国不同地区的另一名学生相匹配，该学生在政治、地理上、甚至在世代观念上都与他们不同。 There is no facilitator hovering in the virtual room. Just two young people and a guided set of questions, walking through issues some of us are too afraid to raise at the Thanksgiving table.该组织的合作伙伴关系总监阿里尔·米兹拉希 (Arielle Mizrahi) 称其为“增强公民力量”，这就是旗舰计划被称为“公民健身房”的原因。没有人醒来后想与一个在堕胎、枪支、移民或学生贷款债务减免问题上与他们意见不同的陌生人进行激烈的交谈。 But you can be trained to do it, the same way you train a muscle you did not know you had.
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