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heaven05

(18,124 posts) Sat May 5, 2018, 07:15 AM May 2018

great article

in Guardian, today of a young black woman, American, traveling alone in Africa and India. Interesting.

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great article (Original Post) heaven05 May 2018 OP

Can you post the link? MrScorpio May 2018 #1

I attempted to heaven05 May 2018 #2

link diddlysquat May 2018 #3

thank you heaven05 May 2018 #4

It was an onteresting article. Thank you irisblue May 2018 #5

You're right and thanks for posting. Kind of Blue May 2018 #6

MrScorpio

(73,714 posts)

1. Can you post the link?

Reply to heaven05 (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2018, 07:20 AM

May 2018

I’d love to read it.

heaven05

(18,124 posts)

2. I attempted to

Reply to MrScorpio (Reply #1)

Sat May 5, 2018, 07:37 AM

May 2018

cut, copy paste. I am not able to provide link. And I said Guardian web page, it is on BBC web page. Not quite awake yet, I guess.

diddlysquat

(1,156 posts)

3. link

Reply to heaven05 (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2018, 07:38 AM

May 2018

http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43877568

heaven05

(18,124 posts)

4. thank you

Reply to diddlysquat (Reply #3)

Sat May 5, 2018, 08:01 AM

May 2018

I have tried to post links, just haven't mastered the tech.

irisblue

(34,406 posts)

5. It was an onteresting article. Thank you

Reply to heaven05 (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2018, 11:28 AM

May 2018

Kind of Blue

(8,709 posts)

6. You're right and thanks for posting.

Reply to heaven05 (Original post)

Tue May 8, 2018, 02:06 PM

May 2018

My niece spent a year in India as part of her university study. For a while, she sent back glowing pictures of beautiful camaraderie with classmates and of people they'd met. But she soon found that wandering around alone was more than unsettling as a black girl because of the things cited in the article. I didn't find that surprising but am surprised by the author's experience in Swaziland. My SIL, niece's mom, was a Peace Corps volunteer in South Africa for many years back in the '80s was a little shocked by the author's experience - "spies," "fake American" by being non-white. Wow. Makes us wonder if the attitude was there all along or what might have changed or maybe there aren't as many people of color volunteering anymore.

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