Reminder: The world is not a safe place. It's not some theme park for you to just stroll through as a vacation destination. People seem to forget this as a consequence of living in a first world country and imbibing luxury ideologies that pretend otherwise. The third world is the third world because it is populated by people who do shit like this.
If I had to guess, they are typical "the world is a beautiful place!" liberal Europeans. Their travel blog probably goes something like this:
Myanmar is such an amazing place with kind, generous people. The culture is rich and diverse. The food is delicious.
Bangladesh is such an amazing place with kind, generous people. The culture is rich and diverse. The food is delicious.
India is...such an amazing place with kind, generous people. The culture is rich and diverse. The countryside has its share of underprivileged youths who haven't gotten the help they need, but every country has it's issues. That doesn't represent the best India has to offer. LOVE NOT HATE! The food is delicious.
Nepal, it's such an amazing place with kind, generous people. The culture is rich and diverse. The food is delicious.
It's always the fucking food with people like that. Ask them to name one thing about a foreign culture they claim to love - aside from its food - and they might, at best, be able to name a pop culture song.
This is the truth, and not just for different countries/cultures. It applies to the whole world.
The natural state of man is abject poverty, a few days if not hours away from dying of starvation, infection, broken limbs, excessive heat/cold/water/fire, hungry animals, and countless other miserable ways to die.
Every action of human advancement, from when Crog the caveman first figured out how to secure a pointy rock to a stick up until today has been Crog (and descendants) telling Mother Nature (who is an absolute, murderous monster) and that complete jerk Grog living in the next cave over "Screw you, I'm going to keep me and mine safe and try to get us lives which are as comfortable as possible!"
I don't know if it is ignorance, ridiculously easy lives where they're never had to do anything hard, a sense of entitlement/superiority, or a combination thereof, but the same people who ignore the dangers around them (and amplify minor o non-dangers) also seem determined to undo as much of what civilization as accomplished over history as possible.
Reminder: The world is not a safe place. It's not some theme park for you to just stroll through as a vacation destination. People seem to forget this as a consequence of living in a first world country and imbibing luxury ideologies that pretend otherwise. The third world is the third world because it is populated by people who do shit like this.
If I had to guess, they are typical "the world is a beautiful place!" liberal Europeans. Their travel blog probably goes something like this:
Myanmar is such an amazing place with kind, generous people. The culture is rich and diverse. The food is delicious.
Bangladesh is such an amazing place with kind, generous people. The culture is rich and diverse. The food is delicious.
India is...such an amazing place with kind, generous people. The culture is rich and diverse. The countryside has its share of underprivileged youths who haven't gotten the help they need, but every country has it's issues. That doesn't represent the best India has to offer. LOVE NOT HATE! The food is delicious.
Nepal, it's such an amazing place with kind, generous people. The culture is rich and diverse. The food is delicious.
Live, laugh, love.
It's always the fucking food with people like that. Ask them to name one thing about a foreign culture they claim to love - aside from its food - and they might, at best, be able to name a pop culture song.
This is the truth, and not just for different countries/cultures. It applies to the whole world.
The natural state of man is abject poverty, a few days if not hours away from dying of starvation, infection, broken limbs, excessive heat/cold/water/fire, hungry animals, and countless other miserable ways to die.
Every action of human advancement, from when Crog the caveman first figured out how to secure a pointy rock to a stick up until today has been Crog (and descendants) telling Mother Nature (who is an absolute, murderous monster) and that complete jerk Grog living in the next cave over "Screw you, I'm going to keep me and mine safe and try to get us lives which are as comfortable as possible!"
I don't know if it is ignorance, ridiculously easy lives where they're never had to do anything hard, a sense of entitlement/superiority, or a combination thereof, but the same people who ignore the dangers around them (and amplify minor o non-dangers) also seem determined to undo as much of what civilization as accomplished over history as possible.