In Which I Discover that a Fellow Traveler is a Not So Secret Racist

After a few days of additional consideration, I have decided that while my fellow travelers are pretty stupid, they are not altogether harmless. The worst offender: a middle-aged Australian woman who refers to blacks as "Negroes" and who had the gall to tell me that "we" always assume that Africans are so much more backwards than Asians, because "countries" like Africa, Ethiopia and Kenya are so poor. I couldn't let it go, so I had to give her a lecture about history (colonialism) and geography (the difference between a country and a continent). Not good. My goal for the next 3 weeks: avoiding said Australian.