The Origins of White Savior Complex
In Elementary and Religious Education
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4 min readAug 15, 2021
It is said that a Catholic education stays with you. I am told that Catholic guilt has its own entry in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) yet I cannot find evidence of this. As surely as our education experiences are formative, imagine the innocence of a child submerged in a world view where everything is…