In The Ted Talk Analysis

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In the ted talk by Rory Steward, the talk is about the democracy and the corruption all over the world. However, the author is mainly focus on Britain, United State and Afghanistan in which he said that, the citizens in Britain believes that the corruption in their country is over 84% increase more than other countries around the world, because their political system has been broken down (page 9.7) which changes over the time in a major shift.
In American democracy, the author describes that if United State wants to show that they are really a better demoralizing country that we need to wake up and fight against correction that has struck their democracy down. Which is their inabilities to maintain peace and justice in the middle east countries,(page3.4)

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