After a sharply dressed Saudi man mocked a young migrant picking
through rubbish, others rushed to try to find the girl and give her
money.
The young man stopped to take a selfie in front of an
African migrant picking through rubbish in Jeddah. He spotted that the
young girl, maybe about 10 years old, was wearing a shirt displaying the
logo of the al-Ittihad football team, and saw the opportunity for a
quick joke.
"Look at where al-Ittihad is, in the bin," the man wrote underneath the photo on the image-sharing app Snapchat.
The
image was then taken off Snapchat and widely shared on other social
networks, as well as reported in the media. Not many people found it
funny. The overwhelming sentiment online was outrage and anger: people
who saw the picture thought it was in poor taste, even racist, and that
the man was using a poor child as a prop.
"It's a publicity stunt, poor girl doesn't even know what's going on, he's pathetic,"
SOURCE: BBC
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