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Foreign aid is not the solution to poverty in Africa.
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It's one of the reasons why Africa is poor.
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Yes, you heard that right.
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For years, we've been sold the idea that aid from organizations like USAID helps lift Africa out of its poverty.
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But here's the truth.
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If foreign aid worked, Africa would be the richest continent on Earth by now.
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Free market advocate and former U .S.
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Congressman Ron Paul described it perfectly.
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Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country
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and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.
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Walk through the streets of Dakar, Senegal, where I'm from, and you'll see exactly where your aid money goes.
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The city is filled with foreign residents working for the UN, non -governmental organizations, NGOs, and embassies.
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They live in a parallel economy, one that most Senegalese can only observe from the outside.
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These aid workers enjoy lives of luxury, fine dining at expensive restaurants, driving new SUVs, occupying the best apartments in town,
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employing multiple household staff and hosting lavish parties.
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And by the way, they receive hardship pay for the sacrifice of living in faraway places filled with malaria, tropical diseases and tough climates.
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This creates a devastating ripple effect throughout our local economy.
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These organizations, flush with seemingly unlimited cash, inflate the cost of everything, from housing to basic services.
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A local business owner like me has to compete with these inflated prices while running a real business with real constraints.
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But the damage goes deeper than just raising the cost of living.
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These organizations also poach our best and brightest talents with salaries that no local business can match.
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Instead of building new enterprises, innovating solutions or creating economic value,
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our most capable people are diverted into bureaucratic jobs pushing papers and writing reports nobody will ever read.
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I've seen brilliant minds reduced to professional workshop attendees, moving from one donor -funded meeting to another, producing nothing of lasting value.
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When I travel across Africa, I don't see sustainable prosperity created by aid programs.
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Instead, I see the destruction of local markets and the creation of dependency cycles.
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Consider what happens in our villages.
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When free mosquito nets arrive, local merchants who sell them go bankrupt.
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The same thing happens with shoes.
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Donated shoes flood local markets, making it impossible for local shoe manufacturers to compete.
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And the desperately needed food aid?
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Much of that gets hijacked by corrupt government officials and sold at below market prices.
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African farmers can't compete against this free food.
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So they stop farming and move into the already crowded cities.
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Local food producing ecosystems are destroyed, which only worsens the hunger problem.
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These are the real costs of humanitarian aid.
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To be clear, I'm not speaking about aid in response to an emergency like a natural disaster.
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But these disasters are rare.
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Development aid is an ever -flowing river of money and goods, and it's destroying a continent.
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Like all government -sponsored efforts, this is as true within the U .S and Europe as it is in Africa.
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There is no accountability for the money spent.
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The budgets of these aid organizations make no sense in any real -world context.
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They measure success by money spent and goods distributed, not by actual economic development or the creation of profitable businesses.
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Even more frustrating is how this system creates a culture of dependency that diminishes Africans' dignity.
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The narrative becomes one of Africa needing constant help rather than Africa needing fair opportunities to compete and grow.
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When you think of Africa, what comes to your mind?
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Dynamic entrepreneurs or stabbing children?
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I thought so.
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I recently approached the head of a San Francisco venture fund
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looking for investment in a business I wanted to start in Africa.
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He didn't want to give me capital.
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He wanted to give me charity.
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Can we dig wells?
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He asked.
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They need fresh water, right?
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That's what got him excited.
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Condescension cloaked in do -goodism.
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That's the typical Western attitude toward Africa foreign aid indeed creates jobs
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and careers just not for the people it's supposed to help every successful economy in history has developed through entrepreneurship
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and trade not through handouts no matter how well intentioned the
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sooner we stop treating foreign aid as a sacred cow the
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sooner we can start focusing on what actually works economic freedom and policies that empower people to build their own futures.
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The first step towards the prosperous Africa is to eliminate what's poisoning it.
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This toxic aid that has created a parallel economy most Africans are locked out of
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and diverted our resources away from productive activities.
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Only then can we build the Africa we know is possible, where ambition is rewarded, dignity is preserved,
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and prosperity is created for our own efforts rather than the misguided kindness of strangers.
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Africa doesn't need more foreign aid.
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It needs more freedom.
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I'm Magat Wade, author of The Heart of a Cheetah,
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how we've been lied to about African poverty and what that means for human flourishing for Prager University.
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Thank you for watching this video.
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이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트

이 B2 수준 말하기 레슨은 영상 “How Foreign Aid Keeps Africa Poor”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: aid, Africa, foreign, organizations, compete. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 73개와 단어 868개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 5:37입니다. 화자는 분당 약 155단어로, 일상 대화에 가까운 자연스러운 속도로 말합니다. 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속하는 단어가 78%뿐이라 어휘가 어려운 편입니다.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에서 가장 어려운 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어발음뜻
inflate 동사/ɪnˈfleɪt/부풀리다
prosperity 명사/pɹɑˈspɛɹ.ɪ.ti/번영
dignity 명사/ˈdɪɡnɪti/존엄, 존엄성
continent 명사/ˈkɑntɪnənt/대륙
ripple 명사/ˈɹɪp(ə)l/물결, 연의
worsen 동사/ˈwɝsn̩/악화되다, 악화하다
hardship 명사/ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/어려움, 고난
cloak 명사/kləʊk/망토
mosquito 명사/məsˈki.toʊ/모기
malaria 명사/məˈlɛəɹi.ə/말라리아, 학질
bankrupt 형용사/ˈbæŋk.ɹəpt/파산
ecosystem 명사/ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/생태계
governmental 형용사/ˌɡʌvɚnˈmɛnt(ə)l/정부의
congressman 명사의원
humanitarian 형용사/hjuˌmæ.nəˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/박애의, 인도주의

이 영상의 문법

화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.

문형영상 속 표현
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점we've been sold · is filled · are diverted
현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때we've been sold · I've seen · has developed

주의할 발음

화자는 I'm, we've, can't 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 11번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

  • “sh”와 “zh” 소리: diminish /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/, lavish /ˈlævɪʃ/, flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/, entrepreneurship /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ.ʃɪp/
  • 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: dependency /dɪˈpɛndənsi/, prosperity /pɹɑˈspɛɹ.ɪ.ti/, bureaucratic /ˌbjʊəɹəˈkɹætɪk/, deductible [dɪˈdʌktəbəɫ], entrepreneurship /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ.ʃɪp/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

  • /f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: inflate /ɪnˈfleɪt/, faraway /ˈfɑɹəweɪ/, frustrate /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/, flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, flush /ˈflʌʃ/
  • /v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: divert /daɪˈvɝt/, devastate /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/, innovate /ˈɪn.ə.veɪt/, lavish /ˈlævɪʃ/, governmental /ˌɡʌvɚnˈmɛnt(ə)l/
  • /z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: observe /əbˈzɜːv/, poison /ˈpɔɪ.zən/, preserve /pɹəˈzɝv/

이 영상으로 연습하는 방법

  1. 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
  2. 0.75배속으로 한 문장씩 섀도잉을 시작하고, 익숙해지면 보통 속도로 돌아갑니다.
  3. 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, inflate, prosperity, dignity 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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