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Something Our Parents Would Say Not My Monkey Not My Circus · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: to be sharing an old saying, a phrase, or an idiom.
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  Speaker 1: You know those things that family and friends usually come
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  Speaker 1: not my monkey, not my circus. Wow, Who would have
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  Speaker 1: ever thought the roots of this stretch all the way
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  Speaker 1: back to Old English? Ancient? Yet it's got a modern
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  Speaker 1: day impact. Not my monkey, not my circus. It is
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  Speaker 1: a direct translation of a Polish proverb dating all the
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  Speaker 1: way back to the nineteenth century Poland, where traveling circuses
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  Speaker 1: were very common, chaotic, and often poorly managed. If monkeys escaped,
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  Speaker 1: made horrible noises or caused trouble, the instant response was
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  Speaker 1: not my monkey, not my circus, ah, basically meaning not
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  Speaker 1: my responsibility. The actual path of the phrase moved from
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  Speaker 1: European immigrants to workplace culture to early day internet forums.
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  Speaker 1: These days, it's been amplified by memes and corporate humor.
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  Speaker 1: Not my monkey, not my circus. It gives people permission
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  Speaker 1: to opt out instead of explaining why you aren't participating.
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  Speaker 1: The monkey comment shuts the door. It shifts responsibility back
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  Speaker 1: to those who are leading. Experts say, it protects mental
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  Speaker 1: health and prevents codependency. It also avoids accountability. Not my problem,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gone, not my monkey, not my circus at its
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  Speaker 1: best is wisdom at its worst, it is an emotional firewall.
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  Speaker 1: Not my monkey, not my circus. And just yesterday, right
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  Speaker 1: there in the center of all those people and with
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  Speaker 1: everything going on in the world, I saw the greatest
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  Speaker 1: T shirt. It literally said, it is my monkey, it
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  Speaker 1: is my circus. That a girl, Hi'm Aeryl. And that's
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  Speaker 1: something our parents would say.