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By Meredith (registered) - website | Posted April 21, 2010 at 18:17:55

There simply must be a difference between the poverty of, for example, new immigrants - certainly my family was direly short of money when we first came to Canada when I was a child - and the poverty we're discussing. And that difference is far more than simply money. What is it? How does it relate to money? To services? To hope? I don't know. But I want to.

VERY generally speaking, I think (a) the belief that a better life can be carved out for oneself if one works hard enough and (b) the resulting work ethic are two BIG differences between those stuck in poverty (which is very often generational)... and those who are newly immigrated to seek a better life here, or those who immigrated in generations past to do the same thing.

That said, the difficulties in literacy, accessing services (like health care) and understanding how to get a job in Canada are problems both face.

Often those stuck in poverty don't know anyone whose life is better (that isn't distant and unreachable) or believe that their lives or situation can be changed. There's no hope.

But in this city, when I hear a white guy who lives at home, sponges off his parents and doesn't want to work whine to me about how "the immigrants" are lazy it completely blows my mind.

Comment edited by Meredith on 2010-04-21 17:19:17

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