Having worked internationally for many years i can't begin to say how true such dynamics really are. What is a seemly simple task to us, calls upon every resource a poor man to woman has to prove something to us before we act.
"I made contract with the town's children that I would give them gringo chickens to taise if they would first build little bamboo chicken houses for them. It turned out that the kids and their fathers were too poor to buy nails or bamboo, too poor to own hammers and saws. Still, the little boys were crazy to own chickens. How they pestered and begged."
- Moritz Thomsen. The Saddest Pleasure.
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