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Why Do People In the USA Need To Go To Foreign Countries? There Is Enough Need Here.
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I know lots of people who will come back and show you there photographs from their missionary trip to Africa. Why not just help here? It is not as glamorous saying I'm helping out down at skid row or in South Central Los Angeles, but it can have just as much effect.
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Because poor people in foreign countries aren't entitled shitheads, and you can't understand them when they whine that you're not giving them enough free shit.
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Missonaries are a good sell and so a good money maker. Actually I am not sure that the USA is even in the top 5 countries that send out missionaries. Asia is taking over that duty since the USA doesn't really have many Christians left.
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I would imagine that there is a massive difference in our needy and 3rd world shithole needy.
The worst off American is way better off than the best of those living in places like Africa and Detroit.
(edit: meaning, the other peeps are way more in need of help than people here are.)
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Most overseas volunteers don't necessarily do much to really help people.
The motivation is generally back-slapping rather than really helping. You go to burkastan and plant some trees and then come back in five years and all the trees are dead because no one cared about them.
The biggest contribution most of these people make to the country they go to is the money they inject into the local economy.
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Give homeless African bottle of water and they worship you as a God. Give homeless American a bottle of water and they'll stab you and take your wallet instead.
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^^ 
Yukishiro1 posted:
Most overseas volunteers don't necessarily do much to really help people.
The motivation is generally back-slapping rather than really helping. You go to burkastan and plant some trees and then come back in five years and all the trees are dead because no one cared about them.
The biggest contribution most of these people make to the country they go to is the money they inject into the local economy.
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dae_trist posted:
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Yukishiro1 posted:
Most overseas volunteers don't necessarily do much to really help people.
The motivation is generally back-slapping rather than really helping. You go to burkastan and plant some trees and then come back in five years and all the trees are dead because no one cared about them.
The biggest contribution most of these people make to the country they go to is the money they inject into the local economy.
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Its a form of tourism.
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http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats
At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.Source
More than 660 million people without sanitation live on less than $2 a day, and more than 385 million on less than $1 a day.
The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income.
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Szerek posted:
http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats
At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.Source
More than 660 million people without sanitation live on less than $2 a day, and more than 385 million on less than $1 a day.
The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income.
I blame Raygun and Bush! Da Capitalistic Pigs.
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Szerek posted:
http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats
At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.Source
More than 660 million people without sanitation live on less than $2 a day, and more than 385 million on less than $1 a day.
The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income.
Money is a strange thing in that some places something like a sandwich that costs $5 here and is heavily processed costs 35cents elsewhere and tastes better and is more fresh. In other words, a few dollars can go a long way in the right place.
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