That thread about moving to Bali as an American hits me in all the wrong ways knowing that Americans weren't taught how fucked up Indonesia has been to West Papua. That Indonesian soldiers literally kill West Papuans, every day. Moving there, even visiting, perpetuates that death
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Don't glamorize Bali. Don't glamorize a place so poor that its citizens heavily rely on tourism, foreign investors & rich expats. Don't glamorize being "one with nature" on some spiritual healing bs in a country that murders Indigenous people because it wants their lands.
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Replying to @Lani4Pasifika
You’re arguing that a poor country shouldn’t have the opportunity to better it’s economic situation with tourism and foreign investment. In your eyes, they should stay where they are and let history repeat itself... sound argument.
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Replying to @ThereGoesSimon
Spoken like an American

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