Article - The Culture of Poverty: The many states and views of being poor

The Culture of Poverty: The many states and views of being poor

When we talk about being poor in the Philippines, you can practically see the great divide in terms of opinions. On one end, you have people who look down on the poor, seeing them as people who wallow in their state of poverty, even taking advantage of it so they can get a free ride on other people’s taxes. On the other end, you have people who emphasize the fact that no one wants to be poor, that what should be done is to give opportunities to the dispossessed, so they will have a chance.
 
At the very heart of it, poverty means that you are practically at the bottom rung of the socioeconomic classes in a society – the have-nots that define the other side, the rich, and is the boogeyman for the middle class, in the sense that being poor is to be avoided at all costs.

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