tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post4829792554781567795..comments2024-03-23T04:01:39.348-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: Knowing povertyDan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-87437538550071505562013-10-12T21:12:50.690-04:002013-10-12T21:12:50.690-04:00I am writing a guest post for a friend's blog ...I am writing a guest post for a friend's blog and will be using some of your information and linking it to you blog. Your posts have been very helpful. Thanks. Bette A. StevensAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-1067790148795957772012-11-13T04:06:36.952-05:002012-11-13T04:06:36.952-05:00mainly in africa people tend to be materialistic a...mainly in africa people tend to be materialistic and still count themselves as poor yet others have nothing to eat and dont complain since they have resigned themseves to poverty levels they are either or not comfortable with,quantifying poverty is hard since nobody wants to be classified as poor even though it sometimes evident through the lifestyles exhibited . <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-72256633834993054722008-04-10T00:17:00.000-04:002008-04-10T00:17:00.000-04:00Don't you think you ought to give some thought to ...Don't you think you ought to give some thought to your basic "assumptions"? The monetary system and complex of social relations that you live in as a Western "modern" is NOT "universal". Primitive Oceanic tribesmen are not "poor" intrinsically, neither are let's say Luddites..They are only "poor" inside your viewpoint, where "money" and "the distribution of western commodities" is a given.christopherleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04686299663407903621noreply@blogger.com