Reply #4: Interesting findings. It would explain a lot of anomalous trends... [View All]

[TygrBright]

...anecdotal evidence, and folk-wisdom assumptions about poverty vs. opportunity, etc. Kids who grow up in poverty among other people in poverty, in an environment where there is little contact with those NOT in poverty, might bypass the "outcast, don't belong" stress and thus be better-positioned to take advantage of opportunity when it is presented.

Unfortunately, that situation does not obtain in contemporary western cultures where mass communications and ubiquitous corporate huckstering constantly expose the have-nots to the assumptions that they "should" be haves.

thoughtfully,
Bright