The teacher gives a link so you can watch the video again. I know of Jared Diamond from his books. I have not seen this video before & would need to watch it too in order to help you.
The parenting style most encouraged in modern America is Permissive. This parenting style requires that parents should be loving, giving children the freedom to make their own choice as much as possible. Permissive parents have few rules and do not stand over children like an authority figure. Authoritative is the opposite of permissive and here parents make rules and children have little say in making choices about themselves.
Cryptography is the science and practice of safeguarding information through codes.
Information that someone doesn't want someone else to be able to understand is put into cryptography. This stops someone from being able to see the message and depending on what it is about, steal the information. This text is called cipher text.