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helps a lot. When you go to an indigenous community, oftentimes people live in houses that

don't even have a floor. It's just a dirt floor. They don't have running water or electricity.

The poverty is something that we label because they themselves don't feel poor.

A lot of times people that live in extreme conditions like that feel quite lucky.

And they seem grateful and they seem content and they find happiness. And so I started

thinking, you know, why? Why are they feeling so content when they have nothing?

That was Christina Mittermeyer, a photographer, conservationist, and marine biologist whose work

has been published in hundreds of

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