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Originally Posted by Beetle
You don't seem to understand my point.
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no, i do, and i feel strongly about the same things you do but in the end, the only way to bring progress (or rather, the western type of progress) to these countries is show them the things it brings.
but i guess you need to get out there in that big wide world, use that passport that's burning a hole in your pocket and see things in perspective. people you're pitying won't even understand what you're pitying them for.
i'm actually having a similar personal debate about whether to go to russia to see some racing this year and in the end, after stepping back from it last year, i'm going to do it this year. because i don't understand the country, and i want to see it for myself and understand it a little more so i can develop my view and work out whether my view of the country is anywhere near reality.
sometimes, you have to put aside your own hesitations and just go and experience and learn.