The tragic cost of progress in Ethiopia

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1. I'd say to Ethiopians and all of black Africa to ignore videos like this. Don't be deceived. They have only their interests in mind. They fear a world of educated and economically independent Africans that they will have to compete with on a world stage. And shame on the Africans who have bought into this propaganda. Ethiopia has no better way to develop but through using the best industrial resources to produce food on a large scale. Ancient farming techniques are part of the problem. Journeyman Pictures seems to think that Africans would be much happier living as hunter gatherers and on rations... to sustain their "traditional way of life" of course. They will protest the building of hydroelectric dams that can support modern hospitals, schools, housing, transportation, and business all because, supposedly some tribes representing less than 1 percent of Ethiopia, don't want it. This is ridiculous because those groups refuse to live a more modern life and yet some a the small modern changes hasn't erased their culture at all but has preserved it. Why should the rest of Ethiopia, that wants development, suffer for the tiny few who don't want it...that is if it's true that most of that minority doesnt want it. As for the supposed forced villagisations, there's only been hearsay and no concrete evidence. There's been no evidence that development has caused tribal tensions that weren't already there. White liberals are so slimey. They are trying to exploit ethnic differences real or imagined. Their view of Africa is a perpetual open air museum of primitives for white people to gawk at and be reminded constantly of how superior they are and satisfy their poverty porn fetish.
2. Just listen to that title... The Tragic Cost of Progress? Because poverty and endless foreign aid from know it all Western states has created progress in Ethiopia? Who's twisted logic is this? Ethiopia's development wont solve problems over night, but Ethiopians are far better off than they were a decade ago. The only solution is development, not no development. It's certainly not white paternalism and meddling used to incite hate among black people to stop any progress. This video is nothing but a propaganda piece and a way to help elitist white liberals sleep at night as they contemplate an Ethiopia in the future with dramatically eradicated poverty. That doesn't fit the prefered image of perpetually suffering Africans and white saviors.
3. 😎🤗🤗"We're walking with our eyes on everyone else, ignoring the screams that come from the people buried alive underneath our feet. Yet we say we're here for each other and say we care. And we hypocritically wonder why everyone is walking passed our own screams as though we don't do the same""
   
   Caitlyn Paige
4. i wish i had the money to help
5. im eritrean .why you sold for forgainers.ethiopia big country with more educated people just do your self.dont beleive forgainers.
6. look like a dry place.I
7. These local primitive farmers cant even produce for self substain.. You can rely on local expertise cause
   there is not sufficient enough to mass produce.. Thats why you have to bring in professionals with knowledge
   and efficiency.. Bring in entrepenurs that create jobs and pay rent money.
   The communist way has not worked ever and will never work.. !!
8. shame on the Ethiopian leaders...I'm Eritrean but this is crazy ....if Ethiopians bought this land would be fine with me ...but Arabs turks and indians....that's crazy ...
9. bizarre subtitles!
10. Ethiopia started from a very low starting point. It was one of the 6 lowest income countries by PPP. 1984 famine shocked the world. In the last decade, Ethiopia ranked one of the fastest developing economies in the world, averaging 11% per year. China is the largest investor in Ethiopia, bar none. From the title, you can see this documentary is a slant attack on China as well as the late prime minister Zenawi. But all it talked was agricultural land lease. And China did not own any large agricultural land lease!
11. do you know about turky they are poor but you are foolish ethiopans you bow for white people if you know about to live out of ethiopa you know better you never change you kill your people and sale our land shame shame shame
12. we ethiopans shame on you how many ethiopans living out of ethiopa to help ethiopa but distroy your people and you want to be slave i sorry i feel bud i hate to be ethiopan
13. The tragic cost of communism. If the communists had not overthrown the empire, Ethiopia would have been a much safer, wealthier and healthier country.
14. I find Ethiopian women very attractive.
15. get the fuck out of Gambella
16. DO GOODER PROPAGANDA. How does the video get made, by "modern cameras" manufactured in these villages? Yea, enough said. This is the liberal nonsense that destroy African sanity. China says one child per family. Do it! Then benefits will be huge for all. One acre of land with modern machinery - look at the U.S. bread baskets that feed 300 million with surplus to space by the ton. Shipped to where? US AID sends it to Africa not China!
17. tribal village leaders admit they haven't done anything for 1000 years. First, one child per family, second, get electricity and let the foreign investment pour in. Then the standard of living in these tiny villages will get a lot better actually. Investors bring new equipment, new higher paying jobs to lesser people (one child) and build paved roads, rail, etc. This is so biased towards fools. Tribal villages are run by complete failures, just look at their lives. Look at the lives of "modern" tools (the tractor was invented 100 years ago!) Get real.
18. why is it always white Europeans taken African peoples land I wish the people of Africa will wake up and stop giving there lands to white Europeans and to yellow and brown Asians cause the African people not going to benefit
19. Cotton and soy beans are not optimal crops. They would be better growing Hemp. The fibres make great cloth, high quality paper, can be used to make building materials and the seeds give more protein than soy and it grows at a tremendous rate. Three crops a year are possible and it needs very little fertiliser, pesticides or irrigation. Time to be more forward thinking. Stupid foreigners.
20. Progress is expensive. The future generation will enjoy the benefits.