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It's not hard to see the face of poverty in America. You can see it on any street in just about any town -- homeless people who sit on park benches, poor people who line up at the food pantry, or out of work people who wait for hours in the unemployment office. Even if we encounter poverty, we usually choose not to see it. Better to close our eyes than to think about the suffering of the poor.
Paul Stoller: The Face of Poverty in America
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:05 AM EST
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The face of poverty looks you in the eye every day. You choose whether or not you recognize it.
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#1 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:09 AM ESTthe 'gap' works in a very diverse way.
The elite understand the way in which they remain 'separate' from the little people.
and, the middle class doesn't have to go there if they choose not too.
does this make them intentionally separate as well? It may, but tell me about those 'service' people, do they stay away as well, except during working hours? you bet your ass they do.
#2 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:46 AM ESTI don't know if it is that simple.
If you are "living in /within your community you meet those either on the edge or close to it. I think most just bury their heads and start regressing to an earlier age when society felt safer.
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