Culture — in the form of religion — is a huge topic in the English-speaking world. People are worried about Islamic extremists, particularly the radical group known as ISIS or ISIL.

There are major differences between the responses to this problem in the USA and the UK. In this video, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a British journalist, and Reza Aslan, an American university professor, discuss the British and American responses to religious extremism.
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1 pointsPut the following into the correct order.(1:54)
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we
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Muslims
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1 pointsFill in the spaces with the appropriate words. (2:24)
- Having the constitutional right to freedom of (speech) in America seems to have mutated into the freedom to (offend) and to hurt.
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1 pointsFill in the spaces with the appropriate words. (2:59)
- Partly it has to do with the fact that only about (one, 1) percent of the (population) of the United States is Muslim.
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- Less than forty percent of Americans (claim) to have ever (met) a Muslim.
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The UK is
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- The actions of (individuals) and (societies) in countries like Iran, like Pakistan, like Saudi Arabia, must be (condemned) because they don't belong in the twenty first century.
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there
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foreign or international
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news
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1 pointsFill in the spaces with the appropriate words. (6:49)
- There are (problems) in some of the more (extreme) countries.
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- The way our governments have (nurtured) this by never ever looking at what Saudi Arabia was (up) to.
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- The United States, the British government, have done very (little) to actually (counter) this sort of infectious Saudi (ideology).
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Aslan and Alibhai-Brown both agree that there is a problem of stereotyping of Islam. As Aslan says, Turkey and Pakistan are both Muslim countries but they are very different countries. Indonesia and Saudi Arabia are both Muslim countries but they are very different countries.

However, it seems that Americans are getting more upset about the problem than the British. The difference between the responses of American and British people may be traced to the history of immigration from Islamic countries. The first Muslim immigrants to Britain were Indian Muslims in the eighteenth century. About 4.4% of the British population is Muslim and, as a result, just about all British people know at least one Muslim person and many have or have had Muslim friends. Every community has at least one Indian restaurant or corner shop — and these are very, very often run by Muslims.

Alibhai-Brown suggests that, in discussing these issues, Americans are angrier and less reasonable than British people. Aslan suggests that this may be because less than 1% of the American population is Muslim; less than 40% of Americans say they have met even one Muslim person. The announcer also suggests that there is not much interest in international news in America. In any case, having ordinary, everyday relationships with people from different cultures is probably very important in working against stereotyping.

Even so, both Aslan and Alibhai-Brown agree that there is a problem with Islamic extremism. Listen to the video. Can you tell where they think the problem originates?
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