tatewatkins:

It’s probably never a good idea for someone who has little frame of reference regarding poverty to parachute into a poor tropical city for one week and report on the situation for all the world to read. You inevitably wind up with descriptions of capital-city chaos and disorder, omnipresent threats of danger presented without context, more interviews with expats than locals, and tropes about the resiliency of “the people of [insert country name here].”

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