What did they do before the wise European was around?

It's not “assuming” they can't take care of themselves, it's reality that they can't.

If that is not a condescending statement what is? Of course it is socialistic.  What you are talking about is involuntary redistribution of wealth, the amount is irrelevant. 

You are ignoring my point.  My point is that while we can and do offer help to those less fortunate, we are under no obligation to do so, we do it out of the goodness of our heart.  I refuse to make other's problems my own.  Once again, yes it is indeed socialistic to finance aid programs both foriegn and domestic through tax dollars, that is the definition of socialism.  It is an involuntary redistribution of wealth.  Here is Webster's definition:

Main Entry: so?cial?ism  Pronunciation: ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm Function: noun Date: 1837 1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

Simply put, it is the notion that the state knows how to distribute the fruits of my labor better than I do because they are looking out for the collective good and I am not.

Out of goodness of the heart? I don't think so there's a hidden agenda behind it. And I can see that clearly because I live in a third world country!  😉

Where do you live and what is the hidden agenda?  What possible hidden, I presume evil, aim could be behind the giving of foriegn aid?