It really it isn't so much about race as it is privilege (race only in that statistically a lot of white kids in the burbs are well off). If you don't have to work for anything it is hard to become good at anything while at the same time since you aren't failing at something you end up thinking you're such a super duper special person. Basically even the nice people get screwed up by being a special snowflake all their developing life.

The only part that is probably really about race is that the well off white kids are probably less likely to get told they are unhelpful idiots on these trips.

No, as the article explicitly points out.

IMO Yes and I was expecting the article will point that out just by reading the title.

I was in Tanzania a few years ago as a tourist and I came across many young westerners doing all kind of things like HIV prevention. Sometimes I thought I belong to a minority among westerns by just being a tourist.

I was trying to view the situation from the other side. What must it be like to be a black guy living in Tanzania being told by little white teenagers how to have sex? Little black kids getting cool toys only from white folks, all teachers who know cool stuff being white. I don't stretch the argument too much if I claim that you will get the impression that all good things come from white people and that black people are too stupid to even have sex. As an educated person I know that this is not true and I can differ between spurious correlation and real causes, namely growing up in a developed country, but I doubt that little children are able to do so. They will assign many things to skin color just to realize that they can't change their own and then will think they are doomed and have to hope for the good will of the white saviours for the rest of their lives.

Then why does the author end the article by talking about the "white savior" complex, and why is the article titled "The problem with little white girls"?

Literary Allusion > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden

Probably as a means to reference the "white man's burden".

To the Tanzanians, all Americans are white, regardless of pigmentation. According to the article.

To be fair, American blacks run significantly lighter than African blacks.

yes, because teaching the children living there that white people are rich and you can never be white is worse than being accosted by rich people from another land who at least look something like them