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Friday, May 25, 2012
Poverty Mentality
by Glenn Robinson
Financial poverty seems to nurture mental poverty. When you see people who have a nicer home, car, clothes and go to a nicer school you might start to think that you don't have nice things because you are less then they are. That you don't deserve what they have. This thinking would bring along the idea of "They also don't care about me", and in turn "Maybe they're right. Maybe I should accept the poverty that I have;" which is all the more reason for all of us to fight against poverty.
I thought of that while listening to Dr. Cornel West answer a question posed to him about if capitalism has reached a tipping point.
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Glenn is an Irish, German, Dutch, English & Austrian European-American married to an Indigenous & Spanish Mexican-American. They have two children - made in California. Glenn is working toward progressive immigration reform, universal health care and desegregation within schools and communities. He is a lifelong learner interested in sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and politics.
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