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12-16-2014, 12:30 AM | #17581 (permalink) |
Dude... What?
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It's circumstantial. There's definitely degrees of poverty. There's a lot of people who are born and raised on food stamps and government housing with at most a high school education. And lets face it, a high school education in that income bracket especially usually isn't much because typically poor, uneducated neighborhoods/cities don't have good schools. There are cases where school districts graduate students who are a grade or several behind according to standardized testing. For these people that's the only life they know and understand how to live. Some people manage to break away from that cycle but most don't and it's pretty easy to understand why.
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12-16-2014, 12:35 AM | #17583 (permalink) | |
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12-16-2014, 12:39 AM | #17584 (permalink) | |
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Well, when you talk about solidarity with one group of people against another, and come off like you sometimes do against that group of people, it's definitely not a million miles away from the kind of insular, us vs. them mentality behind other forms of prejudice.
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12-16-2014, 12:43 AM | #17585 (permalink) |
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i definitely agree that circumstances have a lot to do with it but making the right decisions also factors in imo. i have a friend who's mom didn't finish middle school and his dad was a drug dealer and all his siblings basically fell into normal working class jobs. he got his gf pregnant at 16 as well, yet he's going to school for accounting cause he was smart enough to look around and notice there are opportunities out there, and that that life isn't something he has to settle for. i'm sure there are some people who's circumstances really do prevent them from succeeding but there are probably more who just don't realize what is out there.
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12-16-2014, 12:47 AM | #17586 (permalink) |
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I absolutely agree with the bolded. I know it's corny, but everyone has the power to do with their life what they want to do. I know that there are some cases where people can't get the loans or support that they need to do what they want right away, but those same people could work a crappy part time job until they have the money to evolve.
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