Poverty is a state of mind

Good Morning everyone, im going to talk about why i think that poverty is a state of
mind.
When i was a kid, i used to ask my mom why there are poor people and rich people,
she always tells me that it was because of two things, first is because they are probably
lazy and stubborn and dependent and unfortunate, second is because of the failure of
the Governtment, and as i grow up i thought those
2 were the only reason why there is poverty, but when our lovely professor asked us to
choose a topic, i began asking myself whether its possible that the poor are simply poor
because they think they are. Using the concept of culture of poverty which was
introduced by an American anthropologist, Oscar lewis, which constitutes a design for
living that is passed from generation to the next.
Individuals feel marginalized, helpless and inferior, and adopt an attitude of living for the
present. They are fatalistic. The view that we are powerless to do anything other than
what we actually do.
According to him, poverty tends to perpetuate itself from generation to generation
because of its effect on children. They grow up in such environment and learn to adapt
and absorb the basic values and attitudes of their subculture- to put it simple, they then
to think that they live in a box and they can never go beyond it because they grew up
accepting their status.
So wat made me so sure that poverty is a state of mind?
In addition to the culuture of poverty, there are living proofs that it is, namely- many
pacquiao, and henrys y, they both came from poverty, suffice it so say, they both came
from a box, but they didnt simply accept the fact thay they will be there, and they
struggled to be successful.
As my Chinese techer back in hS use to say, if you think you can, you can, if you think
you can;t, you can;t it may be a simple quote, but it means a lot. I want to tell each and
everyone of you that all of us posseses but one super power, which is the power of the
mind, so use it, and think that you can achieve anything u want as long as you believe
in yourself.