"Jared has a white savior complex," the former employee said.
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But just as often it's their savior complex coming into play.
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And that savior complex is exactly where CAOS' wokeness gets iffy real fast.
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This savior complex is familiar but it also creates an argument about belief.
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How much did that perhaps erroneous belief shape her path and enable her savior complex?
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This dish represented the white savior complex — each component described as a white male chef's signature.
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A new viral video is taking on the "white savior complex" in a truly hilarious way.
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This view displays a white savior complex -- believing positive on-the-ground developments can only come from foreigners.
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Negan never even contemplated what it might mean to lose, falling right in line with his massive savior complex.
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This outpouring can be attributed, "to put it bluntly, (to) this white savior complex," said Fletcher, who is white.
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If he errs, it is on the side of over-involvement; he suffers, too smugly, from a savior complex.
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But more importantly, the white savior complex never even rears its head, thanks to the nature of Oyelowo's character.
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His vision could do away with the problematic exoticism and "white savior" complex associated with Iron Fist in the past.
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In between, he continually criticizes the white savior complex, as if to distract from the fact that he has one.
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This is the narrative that simultaneously fuels the white savior complex and a reluctance to accept movements for Black lives.
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In the second season, we learn why Kimmy has taken on a "savior complex," as Vulture's Flor Edwards describes it.
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" O'Leary says to avoid the savior complex, it's essential to constantly ask a simple question: "Who is centered in this work?
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But that also dovetails back to Randall's savior complex, which he gets called out for in the present by Skye's mom.
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But he deserves to be celebrated for his talent and not as a foil for the white savior complex on display.
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If you're not empowering the people you're saving to be self-sustaining, then you have a savior complex that's not sustainable.
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Judith (who seems to have a savior complex) is convinced she can bring light to her husband's life and open up his home.
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Busayo Twins, meanwhile, a 24-year-old black woman, became Josh, a trust-fund kid "with a white savior complex" pictured on his snowboarding holidays.
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In a subtle but telling way, Eugene has developed a savior complex, not unlike the one that has made Negan such an appealing leader to the Saviors.
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His cheating doesn't reflect something lacking in her, it is just about him: His gluttony, his stress, his savior complex, his ongoing attraction to damaged, needy women.
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Finally, there is the neocolonial savior complex perpetrated by both the Swiss and the American agents, who are acting as champions and guardians of the Mexican architect's legacy.
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He drinks a lot and runs the day-to-day of a very problematic regime built around an inexperienced warmonger with a white savior complex and an appropriative name.
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M. McFarland You may know Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole from his Twitter, where he sparked conversations about a white savior complex through his critique of Kony 2012 and Nicholas Kristof.
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" Okafor added that posting such photos on social media "doesn't make you look cool or well-traveled, you just look like a dickhead who is deeply committed to their White Savior Complex.
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And at the same time you have other movies in which there are issues of white savior complex, or issues in which the characters of color are playing subservient roles at best.
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"We in Portland have this weird tendency to continue patterns that we've done forever, and one of them is this same old, just to put it bluntly, white savior complex," he said.
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She reluctantly admits that their logo — which boasts a white hand holding three Black children in its palm — needs a redesign, but not without first defending the image and her own white savior complex.
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Jamie's savior complex compels him to try to save his friend, but Gavin is determined to die — all he asks for is to see a friendly face smiling at him as he does it.
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" Written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, the incredibly paternalistic 1984 charity single gathered together artists such as Bono, George Michael, and Sting to ask, "What if we set the white savior complex to music?
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At the same time, plenty of these programs operate from the top down — meaning they're bursting at the seams with white-savior-complex undertones — or merely making shallow attempts at boosting a company's corporate social responsibility (CSR).
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At Manchester City, the savior complex attaches to the coach, the man who oversees all of those systems, rather than the players who benefit from them: to Guardiola, the shortcut to a place among the true elite.
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Violence: For Negan, the closest thing he has to an ideology is his self-proclaimed savior complex: the idea that he, and he alone, is strong enough to keep people alive, fed, and working toward a shared goal.
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The decision to cast Matt Damon in the lead role was denounced by Asian-American actors as "white savior complex " and "whitewashing," referring to the practice of casting white actors in roles originally conceived as Asian or nonwhite.
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" For instance, Nick Vallelonga, the producer for the "Green Book" who tweeted about 9/11, isn't just the producer of an awards show-ready film that has been criticized by some as an example of a "white savior complex.
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I would have been fine without Superman in this movie, because if those past Superman movies are about humanity's savior complex, Justice League is about stepping up and accepting the responsibility of power, which he's already done to a degree the rest of them haven't.
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Amid a melodramatic plot worthy of Douglas Sirk, Olivia, seeking security, weds Bernard, a lovestruck toady with a savior complex, while Antonio suffers the moods of his wife, Danila, a harpy who has fallen under the spell of his ne'er-do-well Fascist brother.
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Just as it's become seemingly mandatory for any awards show hosts to joke about diversity to seem more self-aware, the next big step in acknowledging and rectifying a long history of rewarding films with a white savior complex will have to be with the actual winners.
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While some reviewers of the film diagnose it as suffering from what many describe as a "white savior" complex -- stories in which white characters become the vehicle of deliverance for-African Americans -- "Free State of Jones" is actually doing something much more significant with McConaughey's character.
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Among friends, our "inside the circle" conversations (yes, Indigenous peoples have private conversations y'all are not privy to) about The Revenant have revolved around the white savior complex of the story, the bloodthirsty revenge narrative of the Arikara Chief, and the general musings of the violent times that were.
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Stern highlights a variety of additional characteristics that allowed Karadzic to tap into his compatriots' worst instincts: extreme nationalism, narcissism with an accompanying savior complex, personal charisma, flexible ideology, a desire for power, the ability to read a crowd and exploit its fears of change and loss of status.
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In layman's terms, voluntourism, in the form of things like orphanage visits, serves as a space for people such as Goddard and West to exercise the white savior complex, based in a Western white supremacist structure of individuals with privilege—be it social or economic—practicing perceived goodwill to the less fortunate.
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From calling out The Blind Side (the 2009 film starring Sandra Bullock that depicts an idealized transracial adoption story and for which Bullock was awarded an Oscar) to an awkward exchange between social worker Karen (Octavia Spencer) and Pete acknowledging the stigma of the "white savior complex," I found myself nodding in recognition throughout the screening.
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BEIJING — When the trailer for "The Great Wall," a high-profile China-Hollywood coproduction, was released last year, critics pounced: The scenes of Matt Damon leading a Chinese army into battle seemed like yet another instance of Hollywood's "white savior" complex and its repeated whitewashing, the practice of casting white actors in roles originally conceived as Asian (or nonwhite).
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The strongest, clearest way to understand the story of Silence is through the character of Rodrigues, because his arc hangs on a double thread: that of his role as a European missionary in Japan — what from the 21st century might seem like a "white savior" complex — and that of his place as a priest struggling to understand how to imitate Christ and realizing, slowly, that he can't, or at least not the way he thought he should.
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Another important critique of liberal feminism posits the existence of a "white woman's burden" or White savior complex. The phrase "white woman's burden" derives from The White Man's Burden. Critics such as black feminists and postcolonial feminists assert that mainstream liberal feminism reflects only the values of middle-class, heterosexual, white women and fails to appreciate the position of women of different races, cultures or classes. With this, white liberal feminists reflect the issues that underlie the White savior complex.
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The term white savior, sometimes combined with savior complex to write white savior complex, refers to a white person who provides help to non-white people in a self-serving manner. The role is considered a modern-day version of what is expressed in the poem "The White Man's Burden" (1899) by Rudyard Kipling. The term has been associated with Africa, and certain characters in film and television have been critiqued as white savior figures. Writer Teju Cole combined the term with "industrial complex" (derived from military-industrial complex and similarly applied elsewhere) to coin "White Savior Industrial Complex".
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Other characters include Gao the Greater and his son Gao the Lesser, who serve as the antagonists during the early narrative; Sir Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom the Magnificent Bastard, a musket-wielding British-accented adventurer with a white savior complex;; Abbot Song, the head of the Spirit Monk order at Dirge; and the Water Dragon, shepherd of the dead and a key guide to the protagonist.
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Series creator Josh Schwartz said he wanted to explore the characters moving away as he "didn't want to be one of the shows that stayed in high school too long". He added that "graduating from high school is such a sentimental moment for kids and parents. It's something we knew we wanted to mine and explore." The season revolves around Ryan Atwood's savior complex causing trouble, and Seth Cohen's lies posing problems in his relationship with Summer Roberts.
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Neve's article "Nursing in Mission Stations" was published in the American Journal of Nursing in 1908. In it, she describes her work at the hospital in Srinagar, as described above in the Kashmir Mission Hospital section. She also refers to patients as being in "30 AD" while the hospital is in the 20th century, demonstrating a sentiment of cultural superiority and a savior complex. She describes the way that it is looked down on for men to care for women outside of their families, explaining why the hospital and its staff were segregated by gender.
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"Moon Song" romanticizes a lover who hates themselves. Many commentators singled out the couplet "We hate 'Tears in Heaven'/But it's sad his baby died" as particularly memorable: these lines refer to guitarist Eric Clapton's account of his son's tragic death. She wrote the melody to follow-up song "Savior Complex" in a dream, which carries on the subject of a difficult relationship. "ICU"—as in intensive care unit—has been called a "devastating breakup song" and recounts Bridgers' breakup with collaborator Marshall Vore, who remains her touring drummer and confidant.
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The perception was that an unemployed, unhoused Black African posed a serious threat to South African civil society, and liberal lawmakers devised a solution as to how best to punish him (Gillespie, 2011). Rooted in Christian missionary doctrine and supported by the ideological savior-complex commonly known as the “White Man’s Burden,” prison systemization and reform would take shape in South Africa. Punishment as “an institution” became an outlet for white lawmakers to entrench a form of “social jurisdiction” as a presiding ideal for the modernization of society (Gillespie, 2011).
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Martelle, Scott (June 28, 2006). "A Different Read on 'Mockingbird'; Long a classroom starting point for lessons about intolerance, the Harper Lee classic is being reexamined by some who find its perspective limited", The Los Angeles Times, p. 6. With racism told from a white perspective with a focus on white courage and morality, some have labeled the novel as having a "white savior complex", a criticism also leveled at the film adaptation with its white savior narrative. Another criticism, articulated by Michael Lind, is that the novel indulges in classist stereotyping and demonization of poor rural "white trash".
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It tells a story that Toma Takahara (高原 東馬 Takahara Tōma), a successful male ballet dancer with a savior complex, mysteriously abandoned his dancing career to pursue martial arts. It is revealed that the reason is because, after witnessing Ryo's fight with Sugawara, he became obsessed with Ryo and desired to 'save' him like he has others before. The new volumes (20, 21) pick up with Ryo fighting in a club in Japan. Ryo discovers after one fight that his ability has dropped significantly (implied to be due to the experimental steroids he had taken before) and he decides to start training hard.
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Whenever his heart rate exceeds 150, another personality emerges, and unlike Seo-jin's usual cold, cynical and ruthless self, Robin is kind, gentle and has a savior complex. This split personality began 15 years ago, and Seo-jin's doctor Kang Hee-ae believes that Robin is a manifestation of his guilt regarding a traumatic incident then. Because of this, Seo-jin avoids anything that might cause him to have a strong physical or emotional reaction which could trigger Robin's reappearance, even if that means shutting himself away from the world and eschewing any meaningful relationships. Jang Ha-na (Han Ji-min), has just returned to Korea after spending several years in the United States with Cirque du Soleil.
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A Superman complex is an unhealthy sense of responsibility, or the belief that everyone else lacks the capacity to successfully perform one or more tasks. Such a person may feel a constant need to "save" others and, in the process, takes on more work on their own. The expression seems to have been first been used by Dr. Fredric Wertham in his 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent and his testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. His original conceptualization was less about the current allusion to savior complex but was focused more on people's tendency to derive pleasure from a situation where one beats another while they remain as spectators free from physical harm.
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Attiah said the popular Instagram account "BarbieSavior" was inspired by the backlash to Linton's words. Special Broadcasting Service's Amal Awad said the Instagram account parodied "a reckless trend" of voluntourism (volunteering and touring) in which "'white saviours' use the less fortunate like props in their social media profiles". Awad said the interest in volunteering encouraged a business model that leverages a country's existing social issues and charges tourists for volunteering to be a "saviour". Baaz, Gondola, Marijnen, and Verweijen, writing in Foreign Affairs, were critical of the "white savior complex" in the 2014 documentary Virunga, which features the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Virunga National Park and the conservation work of its park rangers.
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