Or blaming mothers for having babies that will starve?
2006-07-09 06:33:04 · 15 answers · asked by littlemamajo 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Because people are thoughtless and full of ignorance, and it's easier to blame the victim than view the problems in their true complexity.
By the same token, people also are wedded to the idea that only state-administered foreign aid--from corrupt government to another--is the only way to solve the problem.
2006-07-09 07:57:13 · answer #1 · answered by jonny c 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I think that's a scapegoat thing when people blame the poor for the poor. What people who are not in the situation fail to realize is not everyone has the same knowledge as the next person on how to get out of a hard situation. Who to see and where to go. What they can do and so forth? If a person was raised in poverty and didn't know a thing about grants, or how to get low income housing and so forth (I met alot of people that didn't know how to even remotely do that let alone receive it), guess what? They can't or didn't follow through with it because they don't know how.
It takes guidance, not criticism, to help a person who is poor, or even becoming poor, get on the right track. Even for the mother who is having children. Guidance and help for them be given to them. Not judgement. Criticism does not solve a problem at all. It only creates more questions to the unresolved problem it was stated to.
Look at it this way. We all have gone to school. But the level of education we receive and the amount of knowledge we gain varies. Not everyone has learned the exact same courses or things that you have. They probably didn't know how to solve a problem in their math, english, or science class, that you probably knew the answer to. So what justifies that they may know how to get out of poverty? What one person may know how to solve a problem, the next person probably doesn't even understand it. So what usually happens? They get help from a teacher or a tutor if they can receive it. Sometimes they have to ask for it. Other times the teacher/tutor may have to check on them to see if they need help even if that person does not speak out for guidance. Or if it is offered to them. Trying to drop a clue here. Hope that makes sense to you.
2006-07-09 06:59:08 · answer #2 · answered by dayNnite 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all of the poor are free from blame but some are. I started out as an orphan and I was poor but have worked to make my life better. I didn't start out wanting to be poor (when I was on my own at 14) but I worked and learned and now have the respect of Judges and a comfortable income.
You may start out poor but staying poor is entirely up to you.
2006-07-09 06:48:38 · answer #3 · answered by opie with an attitude 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The poor are blamed because others now have to support them and their offspring. Many of the poor are to blame for being poor. When they were young, they didn't study hard and now they are ignorant. They don't know how to read or do basic math skills and they are angry and blame others for their plight which was self-inflicted.
2006-07-09 06:39:17 · answer #4 · answered by Superstar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Society hides the dirty little truth that it wants slaves; where there is no need since the difference is the proper pay for the work being done. When you look at it slavery has not changed. They used to give people just enough to survive so that they could do the work. That’s exactly what low paying jobs are.
2006-07-09 07:48:38 · answer #5 · answered by kasar777 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They a just ignorrant and afraid because most of the time being poor for some poeple is like ucharted territory. They don't know what to think. They just come up with stupid excuses.
2006-07-09 06:37:53 · answer #6 · answered by Im_a_winner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As Americans, we could never judge poverty in any third world country. We have no idea what it is like to live in some parts of Africa. They have no hope of ever bettering themselves --this is real poverty. Emotionally and physically.
Go to one of these countries, see for yourselves, as Bono did, then answer this question.
2006-07-09 08:37:28 · answer #7 · answered by Risk_Kay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think far more of them are blaming Bono for being a self-righteous jerk.
2006-07-09 10:09:27 · answer #8 · answered by cryptoscripto 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it's because every day, we see them lined up waiting for their free lunch while talking on cell phones and listening to their I-pods. Oh, yes, and usually pushing one baby in a stroller, carrying another and about to pop out the next.
2006-07-09 07:12:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's easy. "the poor" have no voice. Who do we go to to ask why?
They are also notoriously hard to count/quantify. How can we solve a problem when we don't know who it effects or how many?
2006-07-09 06:49:39 · answer #10 · answered by BlueGray 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋