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Re:Why I stopped being a voluntourist by wyager on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:42PM (#7302926)
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"?
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Re:Why I stopped being a voluntourist by 001sky on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:47PM (#7302944)
Literary Allusion > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
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Re:Why I stopped being a voluntourist by arjie on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:46PM (#7302940)
Probably as a means to reference the "white man's burden".
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Re:Why I stopped being a voluntourist by msellout on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @12:37AM (#7303136)
To the Tanzanians, all Americans are white, regardless of pigmentation. According to the article.
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Re:Why I stopped being a voluntourist by thaumasiotes on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @12:44AM (#7303159)
To be fair, American blacks run significantly lighter than African blacks.
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