How native speakers pronounce “america”

(Laughter) But something strikes you when you move to America and travel around the world:

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is you're going to make 20 of these, put them on porches all across America, and it won't take long

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And there’s an argument: roughly 40,000 people in America, every year, who die of a car accident.

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remind the country of what it's about. I get to defend my parents' vision of America." (Cheers and applause)

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and she’d say, “Do you know who that was? She was the runner-up to Miss America. He was the mayor of Sacramento.

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We are the cofounders of GirlTrek, the largest health organization for Black women in America. Our mission is simple:

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and stand on the front lines for justice. Today, all across America, more than 100,000 Black women are wearing this GirlTrek blue shirt

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And in doing so, we will train 10,000 frontline health activists and deploy them into the highest-need communities in America. Because when we do, we will disrupt disease;

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this journey allowed us all to reflect on what it meant to be American. We saw America up close and personal as we walked. We walked through historic towns,

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We have a choice to make. In America, we can fall further into the darkness of discord, or not. And I am here to tell you

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There are 10 times as many centenarians as there are in North America. It's the only place where men live as long as women.

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There was some talk about women and what it was like to be a black man in America. But many times they also talked about health.

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relationships and high blood pressure, and yes, what it's like to be a black man in America and high blood pressure.

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If we were to extrapolate that three point drop to every single black man with high blood pressure in America, we would prevent 800 heart attacks, 500 strokes and 900 deaths

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We learn it so young. An estimated 80 percent of 13-year-old girls in America have already used filters or some kind of editing

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under construction and proposed for construction to begin in Africa as in all of North America. And you take those LNG terminals,

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and I testified on this this week in Congress, that we need another 90 gigawatts of power in America. My answer, by the way, is, think Canada, right?

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Sorry. So 90 gigawatts is 90 nuclear power plants in America. Not happening.

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barely enough to pay next month's rent. Did America lose its motivation? (Audience murmuring)

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I would like to help each of you, and America, (Laughter)

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And Ed is the one who chooses which coffee they serve at my local coffee shop. He goes around the world, to South America, to Africa, finding the best coffee beans.

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She learned how to motivate yourself. And so, no, America, you did not lose your motivation. Each of you is working hard, pursuing your dreams,

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and by Saturday, this had happened to the traffic on my blog. And by Sunday, both the Today Show and Good Morning America had called. Within a month, the article would receive over 8 million views,

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and to have chosen to love someone so generous and kind and fun and to have broadcast that choice in the biggest newspaper in America. But what I have done instead is turn my relationship

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countries across Central and Latin America um that you they're going to get hit by much harder tariffs and not only

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needs to happen doesn't that imply that America still does have the power and the sway and the influence that it once

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Israel's principal adversary in the region America's principal adversary in the region but they are at a historic

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Yeah. The average person in America is not thinking about climate change.

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and a collection of big tech leaders is in danger of creating a new kind of autocracy in America. Is that about the core of it?

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And this is where I think it's really helpful to understand, to look at America now from the frame of understanding what has happened in other countries.

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colossal thing that is happening right now and why it's not just America, of course we can see that in many ways,

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That's why you have to be stopped. And the people of America are more powerful than these guys, right? There's more of you,

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And the ways that that can be weaponized against you -- a lot of women in America are starting to understand what that means. These period tracking apps now,

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which are now aligned with a rogue state. That is what America is now in the world. And to go back to the point of what you were saying before, which is that,

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these weaponized lawsuits. Organizations across America are now preparing for this to happen to them.

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which is what happened to me is a warning for what is coming for other people in America. CA: Well, needless to say, for everyone at TED,

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And the story begins, it opens with this tribe in South America. And everyone’s happy, everyone’s calm and life is good.

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It was important for us to be a local organization. Like, you know, founded and based in Latin America and really making sure that we were listening.

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mentioning that you have been called America's worst mom after you let your nine-year-old ride the New York City

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the most controversial blogger in America or maybe mommy blogger and you know I got this nickname America's worst

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America or maybe mommy blogger and you know I got this nickname America's worst mom and I think that people are coming

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because they're going to come in, they're going to be unemployed. What did America decide to do? The government says, we're going to give you free education,

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maybe for 150 million people, maybe for 1.5 billion people. Because America has 170 million workers, and the displacements that we are seeing

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And I don't know if I have what it takes to stomach motherhood in this country. See, over the years, America has taught me more about parenting than any book on the subject.

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than to hold college degrees. There is something about being Black in America that has made motherhood seem

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As a historical reminder that there is something about being Black in America that has made motherhood sound

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if you come out of a body that looks like this. See, there is something about being Black in America that has made motherhood sound

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that I found myself constantly asking, what would it mean to mother in the United Stated of America in this skin?

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but in the evenings, he wrote nonsense for his children. And this book was one of the most famous books in America for about 35 years.

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The problem is, only about one out of 5,000 people in America live to be 100. Your chances are very low.

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Your chances are very low. Even though it's the fastest growing demographic in America, it's hard to reach 100.

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And here we have this area where men live the longest, about 10 times more centenarians than we have here in America. And this is a place where people not only reach age 100,

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is how they treat older people. You ever notice here in America, social equity seems to peak at about age 24?

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They live about seven good years longer than the average American. Five times as many centenarians as we have in America. One fifth the rate of colon and breast cancer,

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One fifth the rate of colon and breast cancer, big killers here in America. And one sixth the rate of cardiovascular disease.

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to keep from overeating, which, as you know, is a big problem here in America. A few of the strategies we observed:

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Their average age is 102. Typically in America we've divided our adult life up into two sections.

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My editor at Geographic wanted me to find America's Blue Zone. And for a while we looked on the prairies of Minnesota,

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So, we turned to the data again. And we found America's longest-lived population among the Seventh-Day Adventists

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comparatively speaking. In America here, life expectancy for the average woman is 80.

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the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, in the 1950s, performing across segregated America while facing threats from the Ku Klux Klan.

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But ultimately, even these Edens are deeply influenced by humans. Now, let's just take North America, for example, since that's where we're meeting.

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She's a black-footed ferret, America's most endangered animal. She was cloned using cells from a ferret that lived 33 years ago.

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The black footed-ferret historically ranged all across the Great Plains of North America, from Canada to Mexico.

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Think about this. Over 1,000 species have been introduced all across North America for the last 125 years.

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Take, for example, this image of the Great Smoky Mountains, America's most visited national park. What we see as pristine wilderness is actually a very managed environment.

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as well as flooding in Jakarta that displaced 100,000 people. More violent hurricanes along the east coast of America and biblical plagues of locusts that threaten the food supply

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on a subconscious level. Take, for example, the growing perception gap in America. We keep over- and overestimating

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My parents emigrated from a war-torn country, came to America, and science for them was, like, more their identity than anything else,

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I want to tell you about one little glimmer of an epiphany that I had, doing a nine-part series called "Dolly Parton's America" last year. It was a bit of a departure for me,

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are there singing together. She somehow carved out this unique space in America, and I wanted to know, how did she do that?

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and there were debates going on about immigration. And, as often happens in America, immigration became synonymous with Mexicans.

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This is not because I am a better person than that student, but because of America's cultural and economic power, I had many stories of America.

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but because of America's cultural and economic power, I had many stories of America. I had read Tyler and Updike and Steinbeck and Gaitskill.

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I had read Tyler and Updike and Steinbeck and Gaitskill. I did not have a single story of America. When I learned, some years ago,

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and I want to talk to you today not about design but about America and how America can be more economically resilient,

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but about America and how America can be more economically resilient, how America can be healthier,

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and how America can be more economically resilient, how America can be healthier, and how America can be

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how America can be healthier, and how America can be more environmentally sustainable.

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And I realize this is a global forum, but I think I need to talk about America because there is a history,

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You know, we say, half the world is living in cities. Well, in America, that living in cities, for many of them, they're living in cities still

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Since then, we've doubled the number of roads in America, and we now spend one fifth of our income on transportation.

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earning between 20,000 and 50,000 dollars a year in America are spending more now on transportation

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And probably the best example we have here in America is Portland, Oregon. Portland made a bunch of decisions in the 1970s

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spend a lot more on recreation of all kinds than the rest of America. Actually, Oregonians spend more on alcohol

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will get diabetes. We have the first generation of children in America who are predicted to live shorter lives than their parents.

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In San Diego, they used Walk Score -- Walk Score rates every address in America and soon the world

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that's tying where you live to your health, particularly as in America, the biggest health crisis we have is this one

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of being on the road. But in fact, here in America, 12 people out of every 100,000

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about 10 years ago. The environmental movement in America has historically been an anti-city movement

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But, of course, we've seen what that does. The carbon mapping of America, where is the CO2 being emitted,

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may not be a direct function of our sustainability. But particularly here in America, we are polluting so much

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and he said, "Register for one credit. You’re going to go to South America, aren’t you?" And I said --

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And I said -- Rivers and lakes, the hydrological systems, South America. So I did that.

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of the biggest comic book store chain there. And we talked about how as a kid, his favorite hero was Captain America, but certain issues of that comic book he never got to read as a kid

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but certain issues of that comic book he never got to read as a kid because Captain America was fighting Nazis in those books. And nothing with Nazis was allowed in Germany,

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. So how would the civil rights movement in America have changed if Tolstoy had never written his book?

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