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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is like pre-season when will the leagues of FARM and SES start training camp?

Really, SES thinks that FARM don't value education or they aren't educated.

This is league is so much vicious than the Us vs Them league.[/quote]

I'm curious: do you think there's no difference? Or to put it more bluntly, do you believe there are any negative characteristics that correspond to poverty? If not, why do we bother trying to address poverty in America in any way? I always thought it was because those living in poverty--and their children--experience hardship. Guess not.[/quote]

Not the PP but I think it's a combination of things - hardship and environment being big players, but culture is also an important consideration.  Compare for example immigrants coming from extreme poverty - they came because they are extremely motivated, and given their motivation are far more likely to succeed.  A culture of motivation or lack thereof is a big piece of the puzzle, and no doubt a far better determinant of what makes the difference between ordinary poverty of hardship versus multi-generational poverty.[/quote]

The "immigrant coming from extreme poverty whose children always succeed" is a bit of a myth. Most immigrants to the US are either educated, middle-class people in their home countries. Or if they weren't, they already had such high barriers to overcome in order to immigrate to the US they're extreme outliers. For example, consider what it would take for an impoverished peasant in Guatemala to make it to the US. They don't just get on a plane one day and come to the US. Whether they immigrate legally or illegally, there is a huge amount of saving that needs to happen.

So the whole, "immigrants do great!" thing is a bit of a cop-out.[/quote]

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