#13000399Summarize Spoken TextAcademicMedium
Nostalgia
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The audio is about nostalgia which has a pretty wild history. The speaker also said that the term was coined in 1688 by a Swiss medical student who was working on his dissertation, and it represents this pain associated with people's longing for their homeland. Hence, when people are miserable that they turn to nostalgia, and nostalgia, doesn't reinforce that misery, it actually comforts them.
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The audio is about nostalgia which has a pretty wild history. The speaker also said that the term was coined in 1688 by a Swiss medical student who was working on his dissertation, and it represents this pain associated with people's longing for their homeland. Hence, when people are miserable that they turn to nostalgia, and nostalgia, doesn't reinforce that misery, it actually comforts them.
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