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Radio 4,1 min

'Values aren’t a birth right, you need to keep caring about them'

The Reith Lectures

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Kwame Anthony Appiah argues that cultural values can be adopted by anyone that chooses to embrace them, regardless of their identity. He refers to the anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor and the poet Matthew Arnold in the fourth 2016 BBC Reith Lecture. First broadcast 8 November 2016.

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