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[quote=Anonymous]If the project suggested ways for the U.S. to save/solve/take care of the situation, they are right.
It is a white savior complex.
Let me ask you this thing. Many countries have lower infant mortality rates. Why are their experts not coming here to save our babies?

Further, why does the solution to a problem within one country need to be executed by another country with no jurisdiction there?
Oh, to prevent illegal immigration to the U.S., you might say. Still, a no. You don't see Hungary, Denmark, Italy, sending troops to Africa and other countries to solve their problems to lessen the illegal immigration, do you? Some yes, but not much.
The solution to any problem in another country needs to come from within. 
This is the same issue as with aid to developing countries. The "aid" has robbed many economies around the world of essential jobs. Are you aware of that?

So, when a white person (usually American or Western European, not many Eastern Europeans join these "projects"), what does history tell us happens?
Poverty becomes the norm. New mosquito nets are given for free, removing the need for a local producer of nets. They take that business away and then the livelihood of all employees that worked there and their extended families.
Similarly, "solving" the gang problem for another country creates another problem.

For example, The League of Nations. It denied Middle Eastern countries the right to govern themselves and become nations after WWI. Cause they were not "fit" to do so on their own. So they divided them into protectorates to "help" them out. (Of course, they didn't do it for that, they did it for power). How is that working out?
How did they help them out? Bombing Damascus, and many other locales, abusing the local population. Did they know that, for example, Syrians and that territory was almost independently functioning within the Ottoman Empire? That many were in high government positions and highly educated?
Your kid did propose a white savior plan for the poor who do not know better or to govern themselves. I am sorry to say, but in that field, your kid doesn't have as much knowledge as you and the kid think he/she/you have. But, hopefully, now he/she will learn. And so will you.[/quote]

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