There’s quite a common trope both in fiction and in world history (in the sense of survivor-bias reported history) of the White man travelling to a foreign land and becoming more important and successful there than they ever were back home. Captain Cook being treated as a literal God in Hawai’i. John Blackthorne becoming Daimyo of Kanagawa. Sideshow Bob becoming mayor of an Italian town. So, it’s not unusual for privileged fucknuts to move to shithole countries thinking they’ll get the celebrity lifestyle.