NOTE: The Paper #1 Conference Schedule is in the post BELOW this one, or you can click here: Freshman Composition I (Fall 2021): Travel and Culture: For Next Week: Paper #1 Conferences (grassocomp1.blogspot.com)
Answer TWO of the following for next Tuesday’s class:
Q1: Though volunteerism has a long and celebrated history, Budd says that lately it has become “an international sin,” bound up in the “white-savior complex” (50). What does this mean? How could helping people in less-developed countries have a dark side?
Q2: In many ways, Budd agrees with many of the ideas espoused by Rick Steves in Sam Anderson’s essay that we read last week. According to Budd, why does he travel and participate in volunteerism? Why does he see it, like Steves, as a way to “rearrange your cultural furniture” (5)?
Q3: How do the Kenyans themselves feel about Calvary Zion and its volunteers? Do they share the global critics’ concerns, or is this a case of white people/outsiders speaking for the natives?
Q4: What do you think Budd wanted to get across in this essay, considering that he, himself, volunteers at Calvary Zion? Is he trying to expose its secret history? Support it? Do you think he will return in the future—and would he encourage other people to volunteer?
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