WHITE GUILT IS HARD: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being White. “Liberalism creates a double-bind for its most sensitive and idealistic adherents: they desire to save the world (eliminate poverty, racism, etc.) with liberalism, yet their efforts in the third world necessarily involve a sort of cultural imperialism that the left abhors. For to provide money, education, materials, construction, or medicine to poor people in another country is to point out the obvious scarcity of those same things in that other country. This shows the objective superiority of the First World country that is giving the aid to the Third World country that is receiving the aid, and this is embarrassing and unacceptable to the sensitive leftist.”