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[quote=Anonymous]All of these posters saying "It's dangerous," "Absolutely not!" - do you have any actual information about bad outcomes for Americans or other visitors to the Gambia?

A few years ago I planned a trip to Mexico and got so many "How could you, it's so risky" etc. comments. So I looked into the actual number of adverse effects (killing, assault, robbery, kidnapping, medical emergencies resulting in death, etc.) for Americans visiting Mexico every year. It was very small.

If a country has high numbers (that is: numbers that are clearly out of line with the place that you are currently living, for the demographic that you belong to) of those outcomes for visiting Americans, I would not travel there. Also would not visit a country in the middle of serious political instability that plausibly could result in mass violence or cutting off of flights out, or if it has a history of such instability arising suddenly. All other warnings of "danger" seem to me to be externalizations of prejudice and unwarranted fear of the unknown and different.

If this family is taking their own teenage child to the Gambia, then I would trust their ability to take care of yours and to judge what situations are safe. Send her!![/quote]

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