Archived How do we teach the rich to empathize with poor white people? (AskVoat)
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Archived How do we teach the rich to empathize with poor white people? (AskVoat)
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[–] ViolentlyMasticates ago
People will always look to an easy class to mock. Often those who don't seem to follow middle class societal standards will be those who we do mock. Or politicians.
It is slowly moving away from pure exploitative TV. I mean, Australia has moved from Housos (A brilliantly hilarious TV show about people living in housing commissions in Australia), to heart felt documentaries about those whom we were satirizing in that TV show. I think we need both the satirical and the real life, because honestly, when watching "Struggle Street" and "Housos" in one sitting, you realise the only difference between the them is the people in the satire have good teeth.
Empathizing with the poor has been an issue we've had for yeaaaars now. A really good book about the plight of the poor that has stark contrasts with the modern day is "Down and Out in Paris and London" by George Orwell. An upper middle class man willingly becomes destitute, when he used to be in the ruling class of Burma, seeing the stark differences. It's amazing. We need more literature like that.