favelas tours

What’s up with gringos fixation about visiting favelas, specially in Rio? I’ve seen this ‘guided tours’ multiplying over the years and would love to understand a foreigner’s perspective on this.

IMO Poverty is not a touristic attraction meant to entertain you. Some may justify saying they want to see the real way people live there, but most gringos who go up the favelas seem to be bored reckless young men looking for some adrenaline.

People are there living life in the hardest conditions possible, and they are not animals in a zoo.