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That's not very empathetic. If you were brought up with no formal education, little access to information outside of your sphere, and you knew most people that lived around you on a first name basis, you too would be as distrusting of strangers.

For all you know they could be trying to poison you to steal your land. To you their stuff might be worthless (a point you made abundantly clear) but to them that stuff is their entire livelihood and everything they have worked for. Something they might wish to pass down to their kids.

Your entire little rant there just comes across arrogant and judgemental.



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Fact is, xenophobia is a problem of ignorance and ignorance is far more acceptable among people who have not had the opportunity to learn better than it is among people who have. You appear to have a surprisingly simplistic attitude to life - do you also judge an illiterate toddler the same way you would an illiterate college student?




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