Poverty and race are very closely intertwined in the US, though; there are plenty of living people who can remember when segregation was the law, and black people had to live in different neighborhoods and go to different schools than white people. It resulted in a huge socioeconomic and cultural gap. The country is learning to celebrate the cultural differences, but many people are still struggling to get out of the resultant poverty.
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Date: 2007-08-05 10:54 pm (UTC)