The white savior complex has an unprecedented effect in our global society but not many people have looked at the vast consequences that occur from it nor the causes that created it in the first place. The classic white savior is someone from a developed country who visits a developing country using resources that the local community cannot utilize in their daily life. For example, a church mission trip based in California bringing paint and other materials to paint homes in the Mexican State of Oaxaca. While in the short term that community is able to have houses that are painted, in the long term they are now reliant on volunteers from an entirely different country. From a historical context the white savior complex has been an effect or a symptom of a larger problem. Many developed countries including but not limited to the United States, the United Kingdom, and other European countries have influenced other developing countries in terms of elections, war, and other types of interference. If other countries were interfering in the United States for example, there would be a strong reaction against that. For example, September 11, 2001 terrorists attacked the twin towers, and President George W. Bush essentially declared war on much of the middle east. Due to ongoing war in the middle east, that region has become incredibly destabilized. In Turkey a military leader gained power and formed a coup, and other countries have begun to be more hostile and aggressive. In essence, the military involvement in that specific example has sparked more aggressive movements in that region. While that is one example, the Institute for Policy Studies mentioned the Persian Gulf; “Even prior to the Gulf War, the United States had thrown its immense military, diplomatic, and economic weight behind the monarchies of the Persian Gulf.” (Zunes). The United States’ influence in the world has largely revolved around their economic and military power. Coming back to the white savior complex with this knowledge in mind it seems that the people doing the saving are not thinking broadly enough. This project is important because I will be looking at the root cause of the white savior complex and hope to find reasonable solutions to these systemic problems. The solution to global problems might not be in the developing countries but in the already developed which is what I will be looking into.