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From the Ted Talk by Hugh Evans: What does it mean to be a citizen of the world?

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Now, I only later came to understand that the poverty I'd seen in the Philippines was the result of decisions made or not made, man-made, by a succession of claooinl pwroes and corrupt governments who had anything but the interests of Sonny Boy at heart. Sure, they didn't create Smoky mioatnun, but they may as well have. And if we're to try to help kids like Sonny Boy, it wouldn't work just to try to send him a few dollars or to try to clean up the garbage dump on which he lived, because the core of the problem lay elsewhere. And as I wokerd on community development ptjrceos over the coming yraes trying to help build schools, train teachers, and tackle HIV and AIDS, I came to see that community development should be driven by ciiomnmutes themselves, and that although charity is necessary, it's not sufficient. We need to conrofnt these challenges on a global scale and in a systemic way. And the best thing I could do is try to mbzoiile a lrgae group of citizens back home to insist that our leaders engage in that systemic change.

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Now, I only later came to understand that the poverty I'd seen in the Philippines was the result of decisions made or not made, man-made, by a succession of ________ ______ and corrupt governments who had anything but the interests of Sonny Boy at heart. Sure, they didn't create Smoky ________, but they may as well have. And if we're to try to help kids like Sonny Boy, it wouldn't work just to try to send him a few dollars or to try to clean up the garbage dump on which he lived, because the core of the problem lay elsewhere. And as I ______ on community development ________ over the coming _____ trying to help build schools, train teachers, and tackle HIV and AIDS, I came to see that community development should be driven by ___________ themselves, and that although charity is necessary, it's not sufficient. We need to ________ these challenges on a global scale and in a systemic way. And the best thing I could do is try to ________ a _____ group of citizens back home to insist that our leaders engage in that systemic change.

Solution


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  3. colonial
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  5. years
  6. large
  7. mountain
  8. powers
  9. communities
  10. confront

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Now, I only later came to understand that the poverty I'd seen in the Philippines was the result of decisions made or not made, man-made, by a succession of colonial powers and corrupt governments who had anything but the interests of Sonny Boy at heart. Sure, they didn't create Smoky Mountain, but they may as well have. And if we're to try to help kids like Sonny Boy, it wouldn't work just to try to send him a few dollars or to try to clean up the garbage dump on which he lived, because the core of the problem lay elsewhere. And as I worked on community development projects over the coming years trying to help build schools, train teachers, and tackle HIV and AIDS, I came to see that community development should be driven by communities themselves, and that although charity is necessary, it's not sufficient. We need to confront these challenges on a global scale and in a systemic way. And the best thing I could do is try to mobilize a large group of citizens back home to insist that our leaders engage in that systemic change.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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world leaders 2
millennium development 2
development goals 2
climate change 2

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