[Packratt]

Some interesting theories...

The kid in the rough nieghborhood is not laughing due to a doubt in his own abilities to become a doctor, but in the massive hurdles that exist between him and that goal and how absurd that simple phrase seems when he considers the distance between here and there.

It is a question of chicken and egg, is it the broken spirit that causes poverty or the poverty that breaks the spirit? I know the answer first hand, do you?

The assumption that the very nature of being asian assures one of success is a proven fallacy. There are asians who reside in bad neighborhoods, there are people in Japan who are suffering from unemployment. The Japanese system has adopted the ways of the west and have turned their backs on their long term social visions and the casualties of that transformation have been committing suicide in large numbers due to the deep shame their feel in their supposed failure as indicated by the status of being unemployed. Even the shame you think those who are residing in poverty should feel is not enough to escape it's hold upon many it seems...