how far do you agree that poverty leads to a feeling of social exclusion?

Answer 1

Maybe to an extent because you cannot afford the same entertainment. But you dont need money to make friends or have fun.

Answer 2

Extremely far.

Poverty influences the impoverished person in that they not only lack money, but feel social exclusion simply because they do not have or feel that they do not have access to many things that people who are in higher income brackets do have. Many luxuries for the middle class are unavailable to the poor, the poor do not participate in public events like other social classes, they do not enter society the way the middle class does. They feel internally repressed and know they are unwanted, so they never make the moves to become a part of society as a whole and participate in the many things the middle class does, even things which come at no cost. The poor are always the group we shy away from, when we see a bum we turn our heads...

Answer 3

Very far.

I worked with homeless people for a long time. Met some of the finest people with the highest degree of moral fibre. But so many felt that the world did not care about them, that they were not able to participate as others do.

In a big city, to attend free functions, requires transportation to get there and public transportation is expensive. One of the biggest source of problems is the foot, for the homeless. Endless walking to eat and survive.

I could go on forever, but the truth is, it is just a plain fact.

Answer 4

I do agree. Remember in school, when everyone would make fun of the poor kids? The homeless also have a big problem with feeling invisible to the rest of the world.

Answer 5

From rich people entirely, from your fellow poor it is positively including. Rich people feel dreadfully excluded from my neighbourhood!