Born With A Wooden Spoon: Video Analysis

In the video, “Born with a Wooden Spoon”, we were introduced on how poverty affects the United States. The United States is known as the wealthiest country in the world, as by providing a basic necessity of healthy living that includes home, food, and health care. Only 5% of Americans believe that poverty is an important problem, others do not see that 37% (1 of 8 people) of all people in the United States have been classified as living in poverty for at least 2 months out of a year. This is also about 1/3 or 12 million children that fall below the poverty line. We are given different factors that influence people to live in poverty, such as low education levels, racial groups, lack of job skills, single parent homes, and environment of crimes and drugs. Poverty is seen in many diverse groups, some more visible than others, such as homeless and urban areas. Poverty can be classified in many groups as well, like situational poverty, working poor poverty, immigration poverty, asset poverty, elder poverty, child poverty and most popular found in generational poverty. As a result, there are many characteristics that distinguish poverty

The blacks were the ones who lacked education and had no health care provided, which is what most people did not know or have as those who were poverty. The ones who participated in the study, were those who wanted to provide for their large families. In the video, many of those who suffered in poverty had a large number of families as well and wanted to what they could for one another. Family is significant in both the study and the video, people were valued more like their possessions. In the study, it was the black males who were the participants, and just like in the video the males were considered the fighters and lovers, which the females were left at home with the