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For all the people applauding this book, do you have ANY appreciation of how destructive and disrespectful the practice of using another people's culture as a fun-cessory is? "Exotic" people do not exist to help you get over your first world existential crisis. Let me tell you all what people who see something wrong in using another culture as an ego prop and fashion statement see with this story: "With my rich white girl money I decided to so some silly self-serving whim--I ran off to Africa where the peeps there are SO MUCH BETTER off than me coz all my fancy stuffs made me sad! So I meet these people of an ancient and OMG almost magical! tribe and wowie they were doing their own ways so wrong I had to save them! I had to, I was so much stronger then those doormat bushladies who might do 50X the manual labor I do but nu uh no one tells Miss Independent she can't hunt! So I flew back to my first world country and use my first world money to get a coach on how to be good at another culture! And i know i did good tee hee because all the big strong black bushpeople clapped and think I'm the bestest for doing for a few weeks what they do everyday, and I'm so awesome because like I washed myself with outside water instead of stuff from pipes, like that took so much inner strength wow. And you know I'm still sooper tuff because I run marathons and now bushladies can thank me forevah for being kewl enuff to change their sexist culture because they didn't have the spines to do it themselves YAY." The worst part is that she believes herself to be some kind of feminist hero for wearing a culture for a minute and showing it off like a Prada bag. This is not amusing to those of us who have felt the pain of watching our culture being turned into some kind of theatrical farce. Stop doing it.