How do people in developed countries think about those who live in poore ones?
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The sad truth is that they usually don't.  They're too concerned with the petty stuff that's going on in their own lives.
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Many poor countries are "developing countries," or "Third World," because they have low "human development." (1).  If "developing countries," can improve their standard of living by increasing life expectancy and literacy, decreasing population growth, and building infastructure, including schools, hospitals, roads, etc., then they could become richer.  (2).  \n\nThe "human development index" or (HDI) measures where countries are in development, and those countries that are low are "poor," and could become richer by improving their "human development," which includes: life expectancy, literacy, education, and standards of living.  (3) \n\nWhen countries can increase savings, increase reliance on the "rule of law," decrease corruption, decrease debt, increase investment in the country by large companies, and increase profits from world trade, then they could become richer!  (2).  \n\nGood luck!
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I'm from bangladesh. My point of view is when a deprived person have even a small achievement, he feels very happy. In bangladesh the difference between rich and poor is so high that poor can never wish for anything good for themselves. So they are happy with the little they have. People are happiest when they are happy with what they have. I think thats why Bangladesh people are happiest ( I'm one of them!)
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It would be unfair to categorize people as stupid, lazy or any other name without having a more in depth grasp of the situation people in these countries are living. I'm from Senegal, West Africa, English is my third language, yet I feel I have more brains than certain people that will use such a medium to speak nonsense.\nAnyway mulumbu, to your question the answer is yes, but certain elements will have to be in place. Neither the US, nor any of the Western developed countries made it to this level of development in one day. No need to expand the historical tangent, but many African nations have had their so called Independence less than half a century ago -Senegal's was in 1960. After years of exploitation via colonization those countries owe a financial debt to the countries that colonize them in the first place, talking about irony. This makes it virtually impossible to fashion any internal policies that will favor the growth of those countries because the interests that needs to be considered first are the one of those other nations. \nSo when you ignorant people use the N word freely, or call people names in the comfort of your own cozy homes, my striving self for a better world via knowledge will be busy being curious about things that governs and affects the well being of our society.
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Well now let's see.  Plight is an interesting word.  Like the American middle class is somehow poor or oppressed.  Your typical American middle class person potentially has their own house... almost certainly their own car... access to 3 square meals a day, and reasonable opportunity for betterment through education and hard work.\n\nI think other people are envious of the middle class American.  That's why they come here.  From all over the world.
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i dont think so. why would you think people in other countries and other cultures are lower than your country? based on what? money? standard of living? average population happiness level? stressfull level and divorce rate? number of criminal and prison? average disposable income? nuclear power? morale? spiritual? EQ? IQ?
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I don't know that I agree with you that they are poor and uneducated. You have a particular city in mind?
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Times change my dear. I've traveled the world quiet a bit, including the Middle East. I saw poverty in a lot of places like you would not believe unless you see it with your own eyes!! We have problems in our country like any place but you still can't beat it! If you live in America, kiss the ground and be thankful.
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If you don't mind my asking -- what is the reason for this question.  We do empathize with the plight of developing countries, however it's not the responsibility of the west to take care of everyone that asks for help.  When westerners give aid to some countries (not all), graft and corruption steals this aid and the aid does not get to those that need it.  This is a waste of our money, something that we dont feel we want to do.\n\nWe are sympathetic to the needs of those that are less fortunate, but when we DO but into the business of others we tend to get slammed by the international media.
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"Poverty" means "the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions."\n \nOur country has done a great job of almost completely eliminating the true poverty, only to find people redefining it to include more people.  As the standard of living in this country continues to increase, people will adjust their definition of "poverty."\n\nI know a family who has 4 TVs, Satelite, several DVD players & more than enough to eat (the whole family is overweight.)\nThey are "impoverished" because they "can't afford nice clothes, nice cars (they have old cars & hand-me-downs) & other things this modern society now considers necessity.\n\nI think it is not right to use the same word, "poverty", to discribe the family living in a mobile home, buying clothes at garage sales, & eating simple food, like beans & rice, or Spaggetti & meat sauce. This type of family would be considered well-to-do in many places in Mexico! I prefer the phrase "disadvantaged." They need help, but we shouldn't try to act like they are on the same level with those dying of starvation in Africa!\n\nThe poorest people in America are the addicts & mentally ill.  They get caught in a downward spiral until the get the treatment they need, or till they just die on the streets.\n\nP.S.  While some of your stats are telling, some are not.\n . In probably 50% of the country it gets hot enough AC shou not be considered a luxery.\n . TVs & VCRs can be bought at garage sales for $5 so that should not be used to illustrate how they aren't really poor.\n . Cars are required in most areas so people can drive to work & pick up groceries.  And a beaten-up car can be bought pretty cheaply.
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First, I want to tell to some of other answerers: make the difference between the real life and movies/books - travellers, pirates... oh, God!\n\nI live in a country with many gipsies, too. Perhaps 5-6% of them are very reach. 4-5% are well educated (I had two school-mates gipsies and one of them was my best friend also). But the biggest part of them are extremely poor - they haven't homes, they haven't jobs, and many of them have to beg on the streets.
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South American countries are not poor at all.  Reality is that some of this countries are very very rich but their societies are controlled by groups of families that have been owners of huge mines and plantations since long before the USA were founded. By 1500's families from Spain and later from Portugal founded colonies were native Indians and Africans became in different ways slaves and domestic servants. This division in social classes was a copy of the 'feudal system' of Europe, were few families were owners of all lands and production systems and there was a lord in a castle. That was how people were living by the 1506 when ciities and towns were founded.  The USA was born 200 years later, under democratic ideas imported from the French revolution (they created the idea that we are all equal)! This idea still have to become a reality in a continent were education, health and freedom are yet privileges rather than rights. I am sending you a link to a slide show of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. So you can tell by yourself if you see a poor country.
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Think about something here before you judge others by their "income" and assume they should be scrutinized to unfair housing because "some" of the "unhealthier" ones in the bunch choose to follow another route.  There was time when communities fought the drugs in their neighborhoods, I know as I lived in those communities and I share the belief today as I did then that it takes a community and not the ignorance of others to correct a problem.\n\nWhy should the elderly couple down the hall have to be judged by their neighbors because they have a low income and where they live is all they could afford?  Should they be treated as "beneath" because this is where there income has led them?  I disagree strongly and believe it is one thing to self govern your own home but you don't have the right to infringe your "digressions" against those of lower incomes and place them into little stereotypical genres such as "the mentally ill low income"...\n\nThere are circumstances that have placed those in lower incomes into those housing units and many of them have morals and values as rich as the wealthy...
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the poor will always be with us \ncant change poverty can help the impoverished
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Maybe it is, but third world countries are primitive and backward compared to 1st and 2nd world countries.  They do things like wash their clothes by hand, have dirt floors in their homes, don't have electricity.
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In most cases I would argue that the people in other contries are far worse off than then even the sick and homeless in developed nations but in the USA I would argue otherwise.  The reckless disragard for human needs displayed by big businesses and the government alike are creating a growing underclass of starving unemployed people which soon will eclipse those in other nations.\nDetroit has a statisticaly higher infant mortality rate than Ethiopia - how can this be right?\nThe USA is stupidly wealthy - waste and excess in levels beyond the contemplation of foriegn tyrants but almost all the wealth is concentrated in an emmerging super wealthy class of people while more and more normal people are disguarded as businesses move abroad for cheaper materials and cheap "slave" labour.\nAmericans need to unite as a people against the buinesses and corporations which are expanding the economy at the expense of the citezens.\n\n“the country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains" - Noam Chomsky\n\nLet Oceania, Europe, Japan, and other nations help Africa and Asia - America has to helpm it's own people before they end up in the same state!
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Many people are prejudiced against people they perceive to be poor. At least you got to see how it feels to be on the receiving end of that, and hopefully you will help and be friends with those who are deserving instead of blaming them for their circumstances. No disrespect meant by my comment--we all learn something new (hopefully) every day.