Random sidenote, what's wild is this is true, but also a whole bunch of em get sent to other countries to recruit door to door, daily, for a full year, and so.

You get this very strange mix of person, pretty often, who is both way more sheltered and ignorant than your average USian (let that sink in) - but who also has way, way more direct experience with other cultures (well, generally precisely one other culture, per individual) than your average USian.

Makes for interesting conversations lol. The ones I've met came away with some pretty sincere love for the place they went, and real sympathy and understanding for the people there, a lot of times. And then, in the same conversation, are genuinely confused and asking me "why don't the homeless people here simply get a job and an apartment?". And they mean it with all the sweet naive sincerity of frickin Bambi lol.

So then that sounds like a promising opening but proceeds to go exactly (amazingly) nowhere. Like their understanding can't develop, here. They're locked into something pretty hard.

Had this experience enough times to wanna share lol, it's the strangest thing.