Anonymous's response has the tightest concept. Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez's response seems to be a misinterpretation of a particular (journalistic) case, which was interpreted as general; but it can also be an irony towards the person who made the query, emphasizing the consequences visible by the 'syndrome', instead of at the origin, which could be a complex (considering the laxity of that term in psychoanalysis). Anyway, see white savior.
It is an unfounded belief that proliferates in very poor countries, especially Africans, according to which white people or white robes are the only ones who can save them from their sufferings, which are usually malnutrition. In many cases this false belief has led to people with medical ignorance passing up as such and creating foundations of supposed humanitarian aid.
