It is simple to say that poverty is something that no one wants. It is this giant, massive, over lurking problem that won’t seem to fix itself. Unfortunately, poverty creates its own culture that only serves to prevent the impoverished from escaping poverty. Of course, poverty can’t exist if there isn’t something to have the money that the poor don’t have, so the affluent have to foil the impoverished with their own lifestyle and culture. That being said, these two cultures don’t work well with each other. Upon looking at the situation as a whole, it becomes easy to say that; the lifestyles of the impoverished and the affluent create major cultural differences and result in the separation of the poor from society.
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The impoverished and the affluent see each other in a light where they only see the stereotypical representations. Many of the sources definitely show this divide between classes, as they are often from the perspective of someone who’s either really rich or really poor. Linda Tirado states, “It’s amazing what things that are absolute crises for me are simple annoyances for people with money”, which shows impoverished people’s viewpoint of rich people and how they imagine rich people see situations experienced by everyone. They see rich people as having a conceited attitude towards situations that are struggles for the poor, playing them off as annoyances that are just bothersome. In a similar fashion, rich people see poverty through a stereotypical lens that only serves to condescend poor people. One of the Hamptons teens said one of her “friends did this stupid thing – he worked in a smoothie shop, but it wasn’t serious” (Roche). This shows how much affluent people take for granted, as they see jobs as being horrible and annoying. People living in poverty struggle to get jobs just to keep themselves alive, and these rich people take the jobs, aren’t even serious about them, and still live a thousand time better than those in poverty. However, in either case of misrepresentation, both the people living in poverty and the people living wealthily, do not experience the other
Those who live in poverty …show more content…
The impoverished and the affluent see each other in a light where they only see the stereotypical representations. Many of the sources definitely show this divide between classes, as they are often from the perspective of someone who’s either really rich or really poor. Linda Tirado states, “It’s amazing what things that are absolute crises for me are simple annoyances for people with money”, which shows impoverished people’s viewpoint of rich people and how they imagine rich people see situations experienced by everyone. They see rich people as having a conceited attitude towards situations that are struggles for the poor, playing them off as annoyances that are just bothersome. In a similar fashion, rich people see poverty through a stereotypical lens that only serves to condescend poor people. One of the Hamptons teens said one of her “friends did this stupid thing – he worked in a smoothie shop, but it wasn’t serious” (Roche). This shows how much affluent people take for granted, as they see jobs as being horrible and annoying. People living in poverty struggle to get jobs just to keep themselves alive, and these rich people take the jobs, aren’t even serious about them, and still live a thousand time better than those in poverty. However, in either case of misrepresentation, both the people living in poverty and the people living wealthily, do not experience the other