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16 Mar 2021
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You want to put a big smile on a kids face, let them sit on your bike. Even better, take them for a spin - if their parents allow it.
Isn't it a bit creepy to hand out sweets to children you don't know, pat their heads, play games... You do that where I live and you risk getting a beating or have the police called on you.
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I've been thinking a lot about this element of travel. I agree with everything said in the first post but will add the following: You don't give because you have to. Give because you want to, and the other person will know. Just been watching OnHerBike working her way thru Africa. She gives sweets to lots of children, and there is NOTHING creepy about it. Heartfelt and lots of smiles.
Maybe it does not come down to a set of rules, but about basic human kindness and compassion and a willingness to travel with an open mind, open heart, and intelligence.
While in India, on the great Thar Desert, on a camel ride - I wanted to give my unused harmonica to a young boy.....my brother (way more world traveled than I) stopped me. He believed the harmonica would be taken by the elders and sold, that the boy may get into trouble accepting the gift. And I began to think differently about what help means and how to help.
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17 Mar 2021
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Originally Posted by Wheelie
You want to put a big smile on a kids face, let them sit on your bike. Even better, take them for a spin - if their parents allow it.
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Hm - I let this adorable little girl sit on my bike. It was in the city of Surabaya on the indonesian island of Java, in the ferryline to the 36 hour ferry over to Makassar on the island of Sulawesi. She looks rather terrified though....
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In decades of travel by motorcycle I've never given a gift to any random person/ child just because I'm there. Things are, of course, different if services/ hospitality are involved.
I'm not responsible for kids in north west Africa demanding "Donne moi un stylo/bonbon/quelque chose".
I renamed the Zanskar valley in north India "Give me one pen valley" where every child raises their index finger as you ride by, even if they're half way up the hillside as well as shouting at you. There was also the local guy there who insisted I give him the headlight glass off my Enfield as his was smashed. I could apparently buy another further on my trip. He seemed surprised to be told to jog on. (An aside: nobody in neighbouring Ladakh asked for gifts).
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The trouble with giving gifts to children , is you can make them into beggers when they get a bit older.
I have seen people throwing clothes to children out of cars , so they expect the same from all travellers
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