Culture The word culture in the Webster dictionary and by other sources defines it as “behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or in the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern. ” Dike (2014) stated, “The culture manifested in family structure and relationships, psychology and personality, and in the relationship between the poor and the larger communities in which they live. He called this the culture of poverty” (p. 173). Therefore, the culture of poverty is like a disease that affects no particular race, age, person or group; where a person lives, belief and values can identify an individual as being in the culture of poverty. This disease has no boundaries. Nunnally and Carter (2012,
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291). In 2010, Windsor, Dunlap, and Golub article mentioned, “Several of the central controlling images that dominate the lives of impoverished African-American women today actually date back to slavery” (p. 291). McKinney stated, “Poverty is associated with material need-lack of food, fuel, health care, adequate clothing and housing and lack of resource to meet some or all of these needs.” Consequently, African American has always lived in poverty and still struggling to come out. As in the article, “No Rest for the Weary: The Modern Antislavery Movement in the United States” Betts and Russ, have written that “modern day slavery is a worldwide phenomenon” that can be looked at as bondage (Russ & Spring 2003, p. 65).” This is definitely true when you look at the student loans, mortgage debt, and credit cards; a sophisticated way of saying you are enslaved to the rich. Koechlin (2013) has made a clear statement that it is those that owns the biggest of this country are the “Corporate profits in the United States are an all-time high, and the stock market’s values” (p. 6). Therefore, people are enslaved to work and pay bills, if not, you are deeper in slave to a system that is not being
291). In 2010, Windsor, Dunlap, and Golub article mentioned, “Several of the central controlling images that dominate the lives of impoverished African-American women today actually date back to slavery” (p. 291). McKinney stated, “Poverty is associated with material need-lack of food, fuel, health care, adequate clothing and housing and lack of resource to meet some or all of these needs.” Consequently, African American has always lived in poverty and still struggling to come out. As in the article, “No Rest for the Weary: The Modern Antislavery Movement in the United States” Betts and Russ, have written that “modern day slavery is a worldwide phenomenon” that can be looked at as bondage (Russ & Spring 2003, p. 65).” This is definitely true when you look at the student loans, mortgage debt, and credit cards; a sophisticated way of saying you are enslaved to the rich. Koechlin (2013) has made a clear statement that it is those that owns the biggest of this country are the “Corporate profits in the United States are an all-time high, and the stock market’s values” (p. 6). Therefore, people are enslaved to work and pay bills, if not, you are deeper in slave to a system that is not being