SOLIDARITY Flashcards

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1
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L’aide sociale

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/ welfare

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Une allocation/

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an allowance, a benefit

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L’assurance maladie/

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health insurance scheme

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Les cotisations sociales/

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social contributions

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5
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Une population vieillissante/

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an ageing population

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Vivre jusqu’à cent ans/

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to live to be a hundred

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Les assisstés/

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people living on state handouts

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8
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La CMU

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/ Universal health coverage

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Donner de l’argent, faire un don/

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to give away, to

donate money

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Un bénévole/

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a volunteer

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Désintéressé/

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disinterested

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une organization humanitaire/

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a relief agency

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L’allègement de la dette/

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debt relief

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La protection sociale/

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social protection

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Avoir droit à qqc/

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to be entitled to sth

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Recevoir l’aide sociale/

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to be on welfare

17
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Droit de succession/

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estate tax

18
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Le rééchelonnement de la dette/

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debt-rescheduling

19
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L’assistanat

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welfare dependency

20
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compassion fatigue

A

Compassion fatigue is the idea that we get so much human suffering thrust in our faces every day from the media
that we’ve become sort of numbed, we’ve used up all our reserves of pity, anger, outrage.

21
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Madame Thatcher a affirmé un jour que 
«
la société, cela n’ex
iste pas, qu’il n’y a que des individus, hommes 
et des femmes, et des familles
»
A
Mrs Thatcher once declared «
there is no such thing as society, there are individual men and women, and 
there ar
e families
»
22
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Comment se fait-il qu’un pays riche et démocratique comme les Etats-Unis soit incapable d’assurer une couverture médicale à tous ses citoyens?

A

How come such a rich democratic country as the United States is incapable of providing all its citizens with
health care coverage?