More anxieties if the mission team has kids with them.
The Singaporean mother on a mission trip with her kids can sometimes get super exasperated and resort to threatening her kids to stop them from misbehaving.
"Wait the *Indian man come and catch you then you know!!! Get back here!!"
*Simply substitute Indian for any dark skin, strange looking local, if the country doesn't have Indians.
You know you can easily hear this, without being on a mission trip.
Think HDB void deck, wet market, play ground...etc.
It's interesting how we know we are on a mission trip to reach the locals, yet skin colour is enough to allow fear to overwhelm us. or our kids.
The issue is racial prejudice. It is universal and is largely a matter of culturally acquired prejudice. It must ultimately be dealt with on the individual personal level.
Nida speaks of the "Myth of Racial Superiority" and claims that "never in the history of the world have those who claimed to speak in the name of science been so infected with the plague of racial egotism."
"Just give the presents, don't touch them."
maybe we won't.
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