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Romanticizing Poverty

The romanticizing poverty infographic shows how pop culture portrays the working-class life as free of stress and also boring.


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Romanticizing Poverty

Pop culture portrays a working poor life as uncomplicated, void of stress, pure, and moral. However, working poor is not a lifestyle choice. Furthermore, romanticizing poverty makes people think it doesn’t need to change. So, don’t romanticize poverty.


Movie Portrayals of Poverty:

Deeply moralistic and contented:

  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • The Son
  • Good Will Hunting

In need of assistance from a wealthy character from higher socioeconomic status:

  • The Help
  • The Soloist
  • The Dark Knight Rises

In pop culture and fashion:

  • Bohemian: pushes aside capitalist framework and also stability for what they are passionate about.
  • Bourgeois-Bohemian: mimic the daily “simplicity of working poor, but without giving up financial stability.
  • Dick Haynes, President and also Founder, Urban Outfitters: Urban Outfitters is for the “upscale homeless.” Nothing says homeless like the $144 “Bitching & Junkfood Algardi Velvet Swing Dress”
  • The “live below the line” campaign challenged participants to live below Canada’s poverty line ($1.75 a day) FOR 5 DAYS, but with the knowledge they can return to overblown savings accounts.

Effects of Poverty

We think of working poor as a destination. It’s exotic. But that stage wears off. Furthermore, poverty shrinks your brain from chronic stress. Long-term stress shrinks the prefrontal cortex, insular cortex, and also subgenual anterior cingulate regions. All of which affect reasoning, decision-making, emotions, and also self-control. So, you’re deeper in the hole. It has the highest correlations to substance abuse, broken homes, violence, and also health problems.


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