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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always assumed it's because the rich, white girls were the ones who could afford to take lower paying jobs. [/quote]

This is some of it. Also, with the less rich but still privileged, guilt. And with others, determination to give others the things that they themselves could have taken for granted.... and their parents raised them right to care about others.[/quote]

Caring about others to what extent though? All non profits and charities operate under the the assumption that there are poor helpless set of others in exotic far away lands; cue stock photos with dark skinned Indian girls in traditional clothes. It seems disingenuous to me that a rich white girl who spends her holidays in Paris can realistically empathize with and care about a victim of gang rape in India.

Why aren't more indian girls or indian refugees or some kind given jobs at these organizations?

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Because you are talking about the bureaucratic jobs at a HQ in one of the most expensive cities in the country. Every good and successful ID org has plenty of smart, well plugged in and connected and capable people working in the field (and yes along with some who might come from other countries to work on the ground). Top down only missions don't work as well so its not fair to say they aren't "given" jobs. You can't force anyone in the US (where the vast majority of international dev. ngos are HQed) to do any kind of job, so the idea that someone of Indian descent (who might have had a very similar upbringing as the 25 year old white chick and therefore feel just as American/ distant) will necessarily want a job in ID just because of her ethnicity is false and you can't "make" her want it because that's now how our society works.[/quote]

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