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European subsidies produce other weird anomalies. Europe is now the second largest sugar exporter in the world, from being a net importer 30 years ago. European sugar is made from sugar beets grown in such unlikely places as Finland, better known as a mobile phone producer. That hurts poorer countries much better suited to producing sugar, such as Haiti, Mozambique and Thailand.
But cotton has become a symbol of the inequities of the current system. Mamadou Goita, a Malian activist, calls cotton 'a kind of school for us. It allows us to analyze the way things are going. If we see progress on cotton, we're hopeful that the developing world can convince the West that it needs to change the whole system. So far, we have seen not much.'
Mayor Sissoko sees things more simply. Sitting with his bare feet brushing the dusty floor beside a battered pair of white flip-flops, he shakes his head at a description of an air-conditioned tractor common in the U.S. and Europe. 'The farmers there don't sweat,' he says. 'We are sweating here.'
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weird 기묘한, 괴상한, 초자연의, 무시무시한. anomaly 變則(변칙).
net importer 100% 수입하는 나라. sugar beet 사탕무.
countries much better suited 더 적합한 나라. inequity 불공정, 불공평.
current 현재의. analyze 분석하다. the way things are going 돌아가고 있는 상황.
convince 납득시키다. dusty 먼지투성이의. batter 찌그러뜨리다, 때려부수다.
flip-flop 旣成靴(기성화). 퍼덕퍼덕하는 소리. 불꽃, 폭죽. description 설명, 서술, 묘사.
sweat 땀 흘리다.
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