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Let me say this loud and clear.
FUCK LAWRENCE MEAD!
FUCK WHOMEVER ALLOWED THIS TO GET PUBLISHED!
FUCK THE EDITORS!
FUCK THE REVIEWERS!
How’s that for a “Hispanic” responding weakly to education and work! Kiss my ass!
Poverty and Culture | SpringerLink https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-020-00496-1
FUCK LAWRENCE MEAD!
FUCK WHOMEVER ALLOWED THIS TO GET PUBLISHED!
FUCK THE EDITORS!
FUCK THE REVIEWERS!
How’s that for a “Hispanic” responding weakly to education and work! Kiss my ass!
Poverty and Culture | SpringerLink https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-020-00496-1
Fifty years after civil rights, their main problem is no longer racial discrimination by other people but rather that they face an individualist culture that they are unprepared for.
Cultural difference helps to explain the two most puzzling things about the long-term poor: their tepid response to oppor- tunity and the frequent disorder in their personal lives.
But the long-term jobless often turned out to lack even the most basic work discipline. Many simply did not respond to these programs, or they dropped out, or failed to keep jobs once placed.
Better-off Americans have more income, their lives are filled with responsibilities to others, including families & employers. We call them “privileged,” they are less free in this inner sense than the poor. For many poor adults, the point of life may not be to maximize income.
