EBS 파워잉글리쉬 2014년 9월 4일 목요일 Johannesburg: Apartheid Museum

Johannesburg: Apartheid Museum

Cecil : Wow, this museum has a weird energy to it. I feel like I'm reliving the fear of the blacks of South Africa in the last half of the 1900s.

Janice : It was a bad time for them and it's still fresh in the minds of the people in their 40s and older. This museum wasn't even established until 2001.

Cecil : Well, the South African constitution was only approved in 1996. But it's got the most wide-ranging guarantees of equality anywhere in the world. That's what those concrete pillars outside symbolized.

Janice : The ones that said equality, democracy, reconciliation, and a few other things?

Cecil : Yeah. But it was definitely needed after so much oppression for 80 years.

Janice : Look at all the nooses hanging from the ceiling! It says here that blacks were hung for minor infractions.  

Cecil : Yeah, the whites, even though they were the minority, had the money and power and really enforced laws that kept the blacks down.

Janice : Hey, look! It's a picture of Mahatma Gandhi! I thought he was the hero of India. 

Cecil : He was, but he earned his stripes as a lawyer in South Africa and even spent time in prison here. This is where he really developed his philosophy of nonviolent confrontation.

Janice : Between Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, it seemed like there was no way that apartheid could last that long! 

Cecil : Well, I hope humanity has finally seen the light.

[Vocab Tips]

* pillar - 기둥

* oppression - 압제

* reconciliation - 화해

* infraction - 위반

[Expression of the day]

I hope humanity has finally seen the light.

나는 인류가 마침내 정신을 차렸으면 좋겠어.

I hope humanity has finally worked it out. 

I hope humanity has finally gotten the drift.​

I hope humanity has finally ​​figured it out.