This is what freedom looks like to Cecilia Fatone, who also took this photo
Whether it's freedom from surveillance or freedom to be single, the 成人快手 is investigating what freedom means in the modern world.
Rob and Finn discuss the 成人快手 #Freedom2014 season and find out that freedom means different things to different people.
They also explain some vocabulary related to freedom.
This week's question:
According to the World Freedom Index 2013 by the Canadian Fraser Institute, the people of which country came out as number one, in terms of having the most freedom? Was it:
a) USA
b) Sweden
c) New Zealand
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Listen
What is freedom?
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Vocabulary
- right
something that you are morally or legally allowed to do or have
- restricted
limited by rules or laws
- democracy
a system of government in which people vote in elections to choose the people who will govern them
- free speech
the right to say anything you want about anything
- equality
everyone having exactly the same rights and opportunities regardless of colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age etc.
- apartheid
the political system that existed in the past in South Africa, in which only white people had political rights and power
- forced labour
being made to do hard physical work
- surveillance
the careful watching of a person or place, often secretly and usually done by people in authority, such as the police
- confidential
secret; only for certain people to see
- campaigned
tried to achieve political or social change by persuading people in authority to do something
- regime
a method of government that controls the country in a strict and unfair way
- civil rights
the basic rights that all people in a society should have, whatever their race, sex, religion, etc.
- cause
idea, aim, belief or way of thinking that a group of people share and try to persuade others to support
