AUGUST 19 — I could be wrong, but I’ve been noticing a minor backlash against “beg-packers” i.e. foreign tourists who go around asking, some evenYou sometimes see them on the trains, walking from coach to coach giving out explanatory micro-brochures or selling trinklets.
Understandably all this pisses off many Malaysians. There are fewer things weirder in life than people from “rich” countries going to “poor” countries to beg for money. Nevertheless, there is a profound paradox here: For second-world citizens to be annoyed by first-world people begging in their country is nothing short of a “first-world problem.” many of them. I think there are more Western evangelists than beggars on the trains .
Essentially — and I’m not going to talk about other foreign communities which may be a greater source of social ills — the “beg-packers” aren’t the biggest culprits in the “social problems” area.
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