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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've traveled a lot but not to many third world countries. I have been reluctant because I feel as if bearing witness to the grinding poverty would ruin the experience for me. I couldn't sleep at night in India knowing that right outside my window there are people without the most basic means to survive. Yes, I know when I got to sleep here they are still there but somehow the thought of lookign people in the eye and not really being able to help them while touring around the country and treating them as a bit of the 'experience' feels uncomfortable for me. I mean we took a helicopter trip to a tiny island in Hawaii with fancy picnic lunches and I ended up spending the whole time on the island feeding our lunches to the skinny dogs we stumbled upon. I'm not good with proximal suffering. How do others manage this or am I just too empathic? [/quote]

I get you, OP. I have had trouble some places I've traveled to, and I live near a city with extremely high homeless rates and poverty. Half my family is from a third-world country as well. My friends from India have told me not to go because I would not enjoy myself at all due to the poverty. How do I manage it- I do some research and then decide if the planned destination is more likely to upset me than facilitate an interesting vacation. Yes, it's limiting, but the world is huge. [/quote]

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