• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I can sense your seething hate for poor people through your comment. Keep your bigotry to yourself. My comment referred to them backpacking through one of the deadliest places on earth and calling it an “adventure”. I wonder how fun the adventure is for the people in Laos who deal with human trafficking daily

    Laos is a source, and to a lesser extent, a transit and destination country for human trafficking. As a criminal activity, trafficking in person is difficult to evaluate and statistics documenting the scale of this subject in Laos are poor. International surveys estimate that between 200,000 and 450,000 people are trafficked annually within the Greater Mekong Subregion.

    You rich kids go to bad places, step over poor and dying people and ignore the suffering while you go “wow what an adventure!”

    • Cypher@lemmy.world
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      Your claim it is one of the most dangerous parts of the world simply doesn’t hold up. Laos doesn’t contain any of the top 100 most dangerous cities.

      Laos is mostly considered to have a normal level of danger, except areas bordering Myanmar due to civil war, and Xaisomboun province due to civil unrest, as advised by multiple countries:

      https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/asia/laos

      https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/laos-travel-advisory.html

      https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/laos

      Secondly I don’t hate poor people, I was pointing out your hate of people with the means to enjoy their lives.

      Young people travelling and experiencing new cultures is a good thing. What else would a person call that but an adventure?

      Also it wasn’t the victims that used that word it was the media. You decided you hated the victims before you knew anything about them.

      step over poor and dying people and ignore the suffering while you go “wow what an adventure!”

      Yea the poor would really appreciate if you kept your income and wealth entirely in your own nation thanks. Tourism has never been important to an economy.

      You are a short sighted and angry fool. Too focused on your own situation to view the world through any other lense.