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What is is that they want to find in there? I really don't underestand and besides I feel is like insulting for the people living there. Is not like a zoo. I don't get it.
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My friend: if you grow up in America you may think that "poverty" means old cars or old houses. The favelas show the absolut misery to which people are submitted. Tourists like to experience a thrill, a sense of danger with a certainty that they'll be out of there so they visit these places where human beings suffer, starve, and are absolutely unable to get out of. Taking a picture (and being on it) register the "educational experience" that tourists thing they acquire by spending a little time where human misery is created at the benefit of others. In a way it also helps reinforce the tourist's own understanding how privileged he or she is. Unfortunately it is more likely that a tourist from a rich country donates or spends money on dogs than on helping starving children from the favelas to get food or move out of there.
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I've seen that from very close.
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