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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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They usually are on the ground. Not here in American HQ though.[/quote]

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