It really can teach empathy to young people, but it's also an extremely inefficient use of resources. People will spend 3 grand to travel across the world to provide aid worth about a hundred bucks.
There's a whole lot of empathy that could be learned in the US too, we aren't as open to converting though.
From what Iβve heard that empathy lasts about a week before the day-to-day in your home country lets you forget the third world.
Oh, absolutely. I doubt any of them really keep contact with the people they "helped".
βThe foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.βΒ
Leviticus 19:34
If only they actually took the bible seriously.
Frederick Douglass called it American Christianity.
He was soo fucking right.
No god please don't try to get then to spread their religion. It always ends in genocide. :(
Poverty tourism is a fascinating industry.
It really can teach empathy to young people, but it's also an extremely inefficient use of resources. People will spend 3 grand to travel across the world to provide aid worth about a hundred bucks.
There's a whole lot of empathy that could be learned in the US too, we aren't as open to converting though.
From what Iβve heard that empathy lasts about a week before the day-to-day in your home country lets you forget the third world.
Oh, absolutely. I doubt any of them really keep contact with the people they "helped".