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Old 03-09-2004, 09:42 PM   #15 (permalink)
anti fishstick
Post-modernism meets Individualism AKA the Clash
 
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I don't think that they actually worry about the way they look... do you? I think they are worried more about how to survive, and how to make it to the next day...
I think you've reduce poor people down to some sort of one-dimensional thing. People are people and they do care about how they look no matter how much they have or don't have. Poor people aren't like dogs or rats - they think and have feelings too. Being poor does not make you a simpleton. You're making a vast, damaging stereotype, in my opinion. Poor people tend to be treated as less than other people enough as it is.
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