"James Annan" <still_the_same_me@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:40130443$0$23270$44c9b20d@news3.asahi-net.or.jp...
> And maybe most people are reasonable enough to accept that there are
> good aspects and bad aspects to all cultures and countries. Even for all
> Japan's faults, I've not been out of the UK for long enough to forget
> the problems back home. And one person's experiences are unlikely to be
> very representative of the entirety of the culture anyway.

When X is a poor country, there are foreign relief workers who live there,
often from undistinguished backgrounds.  X's refugees hail them as folk
heroes, according them demigod status.  Some relief workers really get into
X's culture and adopt many God-children, invited to family ceremonies,
treated like rock stars.  However, they live in a fragile bubble that may be
shattered by rebel/bandit attacks, when gunmen shoot up the refugee camp and
maim relief workers; local media, run by X nationalists, may hail the
"liberation" from foreign dominance.  Or X's economy could improve, leaving
the relief workers without jobs; they either move on to some other poor
country, or become bitter drunkards back home.