Why do poor people tend to be ignorant, dirty and crime-ridden?

Question

I hear all the time "there is a direct correlation between poverty and crime/health problems/low education"

Thing is I grew up dirt floor poor. Quite literally. It can't be understated - I was poor.

Yet I've never intentionally committed a crime in my life. Never did drugs, drank, or even smoke a cigarette. I was raised to be clean, no matter what. I was told that it didn't matter if I had to gather water in a tin can and clean my clothes with stone and my bare hands - as long as I stayed clean and held myself to a high standard.

I dropped out of School. That was a mistake. But I acquired a job and now I'm heading to a University soon.

I'm not trying to brag but I hear constantly from Poor people, and politicians that "Poor people can't help being dirty and uneducated and unhealthy" when yes, you can.

Poverty doesn't take away ones ability to work. I don't mean a 9 - 5 Job, I mean house and hygiene work. I mean putting in the effort to keep yourself clean and your home in working order.

Or am I just wrong?

Answer 1

People who have those traits tend to be unemployable thus making them poor.

Answer 2

This is what Carl Jung called the shadow. There is a part of us that we dislike, and we struggle to overcome it. When we see aspects of our own shadow in others, our fear of the shadow causes us to devalue and attack people who show those aspects of the shadow.



In simple terms, your insecurity about overcoming your own poverty is causing you to negatively judge poor people. You think you are distancing yourself from them, and in the process distancing yourself from your past self that was poor, but to outsiders, you're clearly showing your insecurities about your own history of poverty.

Answer 3

Because your mother learned to twerk in the most proper manner.

Answer 4

The "all" church has been lost in the antiquities of the Roman Catholic Vhurch