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Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by hrjfkgkgk on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:44PM (#25931251)
idk man poverty in the us is not as bad as in india but it sure is worse than east europe. there is a dude here stating inequality is not bad, perhaps they’d want to visit communist countries to see how wide the gap is between regular folks and the elite
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Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by inglor_cz on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:11PM (#25932480)
Have you ever visited a gypsy village in eastern Slovakia or in the Balkans? You know, the huts that barely stand? Or some of the most notorious housing projects?

That is a trip straight to the Middle Ages. Look at the following videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ7WHKU_UoY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Men6iwpLjno

Eastern Europe has some really bad places. IDK if USA is worse, but it would have to try.

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Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by pietrovismara on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:31PM (#25932748)
Those are gypsy and you can find the same exact type of camps/villages in Western Europe, no need to go to Eastern Europe.

Their condition doesn't really depend on the poverty level of the country they live in, but other factors such as cultural and integration issues, not always caused by them.

In short, not a really good example of poverty.

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Re:U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 5... by inglor_cz on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:36PM (#25932825)
I am a Czech, I know gypsies well, I had several classmates from all sorts of gypsy families - from very well integrated to the ghetto standard.

I would argue that multigenerational poverty in contemporary West has always something to do with cultural and integration issues. Plenty of refugees who came with a small bags of personal items have built middle class lives in a generation, even though they were foreign, did not know the language and faced crude racism from primitives.

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