Great read! Another point:

Viewing the poverty of other countries distance us (and especially whites) to the poverty in our backyard. Many Americans do live very similar to those in Mumbai, Rio, or Nairobi, but we can deny the poverty here because we’ve “witnessed real poverty” overseas.

So it’ll be hard for us to believe that a reservation in Arizona or a rural community in the Mississippi delta has no running water. And we play oppression olympics with the poor people in our daily lives because they “own a cellphone” or “are obese.”