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Wrote out a long reply and it glitched, sorry those things happened to you but it's not relevant to the point I was making.
I completely agree having white skin makes you a target.
However, being a target in your own country is your problem, for you to fix. I learned my lesson the hard way, as I'm sure you have now, Africa is a shithole and if you aren't vigilant every second you're in for a short time.
The worst danger was in my own country funnily enough. When the risk vs reward changes, so too does peoples motivations for violence. Armed robbery in an South African shithole doesn't need to end in death if you play it right, no benefit if no reward and no point drawing any attention. The murder rate is so high because of frequency, due to poverty
Armed robbery in a first world nation can land the crim a lengthy stint, therefore they are willing to commit a further act of violence if it achieves a reward, knowing that
Being a target in another country is, like you've mentioned part weatlh, part hate, but also part international politics. You can't change what your government might have done to another populace in history.
Having traveled extensively to the areas you've mentioned, although to only a few regions of the middle-east, I've come within minutes of either extreme harm or death at times, did my skin colour play into it? Absolutely.
Did I take that into account when travelling there? Absolutely.
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Wrote out a long reply and it glitched, sorry those things happened to you but it's not relevant to the point I was making.
I completely agree having white skin makes you a target.
However, being a target in your own country is your problem, for you to fix. I learned my lesson the hard way, as I'm sure you have now, Africa is a shithole and if you aren't vigilant every second you're in for a short time.
The worst danger was in my own country funnily enough. When the risk vs reward changes, so too does peoples motivations for violence. Armed robbery in an South African shithole doesn't need to end in death if you play it right, no benefit if no reward and no point drawing any attention. The murder rate is so high because of frequency, due to poverty
Armed robbery in a first world nation can land the crim a lengthy stint, therefore they are willing to commit a further act of violence if it achieves a reward, knowing that
Being a target in another country is, like you've mentioned part weatlh, part hate, but also part international politics. You can't change what your government might have done to another populace in history.
Having traveled extensively to the areas you've mentioned, although to only a few regions of the middle-east, I've come within minutes of either extreme harm or death at times, did my skin colour play into it? Absolutely.
Did I take that into account when travelling there? Absolutely.