‘Begpackers’ Are the Next Entitled Epidemic to Hit Asia
Eastern cultures are tired of the entitled behavior of privileged, white Western folk who expect others to fund their travels abroad.
Websites such as GoFundMe were first created with the best of intentions and place.
GoFundMe Pages have been used to offer legal fees to someone who is being oppressed by the system and require fair representation, offering financial support to those who require expensive surgeries to save their lives, and paying for funeral costs in the face of a terribly tragic loss of life.
That said, as with many things that start out with good intentions, GoFundMe pages have been abused and used to fund incredibly selfish and entitled activities, as well.
Most commonly, the fundraising efforts which anger online users most are the ones that are related to an individual’s unwillingness to work to make money, and thus they request support from others to fund their luxury or privileged activities such as travel, so that they don’t have to save up their own money by putting aside a bit of a paycheck now and again.
More and more, we are seeing go fund me pages go viral, because online users are tired of strangers begging for money to fund their…
