Some people, and I do not want to generalize, think you are a billionaire and give out money for free because you are white. Every week we have people asking for something or trying to trick us in paying more in everything we want to buy.
People follow you around and play with your temper or just want to charge you more when you are buying things. For them we are money! You realize after giving sometimes something you are not thanked after. In my opinion there is a type of thought by these certain individuals where they think it’s your obligation to give them something since you are white and an outsider. If I had given what they have asked me to give on my trip until now we would have spent over a billion dollars.
On matatus, in shops, tourist office… we sometimes have to discuss prices because we see that the guy in front, paid three times less then what we are being charged, and we hate when people think you are dumb, or do not care. We dress worse than people here, but that does not help, what matters is the color of your skin.
Even when helping people in the organization where we work, we sometimes are asked for money by them or even wanted to do all the work without them helping, which in the end is for their own benefit. We have even been told that sometimes when organizing events that are free to assist they ask for money for assisting when it is for there own benefit.
To clarify this is not everyone, this is not the nice and loving Kenyans we have mostly met. We like the people that work and earn fairly what they have.
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