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It's not the actual being poor part, it's that at my school, all the rich kids are popular and all the poor kids are "losers". I'm friends with 2 other poor kids, 1 middle-class kid, and 1 rich kid that's not popular because he's a nerd.
That is completely stupid to hate being poor because of that.
Jeez, don't be such a selfish bitch.
Yeah, it's normal. I was the poor kid at a predominantly rich kid's school, it has a way of alienating you. You can't dress the way everyone else does, you can't do the things they do, and you can't have the things they have. It's understandable that you wouldn't like that.
There are obviously different levels of poverty as children in Ethiopia etc are starving to death but I do know where you're coming from.
I was a poor kid in an extremely wealthy school but I wasn't in awe or impressed by my classmates. I saw it as an accident of birth and they hadn't earned their parents' money so therefore they had achieved nothing and were no better than me. I loved to learn and education was very important to the parents of those kids. It was only after I left school that I realised they were prompted to use me and my knowledge to explain any problems they had with homework etc. Saved them paying private tutors :o)
I think that if you excel in a particular subject you will find them gravitating to you, to use your knowledge. It's up to you to prove them wrong and that you are not going to be a 'loser' when you have to stand on your own 2 feet. Just remember that when they leave home, their parents don't just hand over their bank accounts or their homes to these Richie Richs.
BTW even my teachers were extreme snobs and checked everyone's address. They used to talk about people belonging to 'different classes' due to wealth. I shut them up when I asked them what 'class' did Jesus belong to?
I didn't answer, because it's really confusing to choose an answer to this one..
I understand you'll have to go through a lot of sh*t, but the truth is that rich kids are stupid snobs who get whatever they want. But they can't do anything when they'll have to live alone, get a SMART girlfriend to marry them and cook etc..
You are living in a cruel world, and you're fighting your way through it by your own. Battle scars are guaranteed, and they'll only make you stronger. If you're what you call "poor" (while I actually take this word as a pretty cruel word) you'll gain a lot more experience in life than those "rich" assholes.
Money is a bitch that doesn't make you any better as a person.
A lot of famous people have admitted that they've been the least popular kids in school, but the result really shows that school popularity doesn't affect on anything if it's only about being rich, wearing expensive clothes and doing "cool" stuff such as smoking and drinking.
Absolutely, especially when the rest of the world demonize us just because we're poor.
My husband lost a bunch of friends in school because his family went through some tough times. As a result of illness, his family no longer was middle class. The worst part was that it was the parents of the other children who wouldn't allow for socializing.
it's normal. use it to fuel your need to change your life not to rage incessantly
I understand, but I never felt like the poor kid.
If you were poor, you wouldn't be in a machine or device with Internet connection.
Think about it.
I was a poor kid at a poor school so I fitted right in. But the minority who had a label on their clothes or spare cash in their pocket soon got a lesson about how to fit in. It wasn't about rich or poor. It was about being different. We were rabid about it.
One lad actually got enough pocket money to buy himself toys and the like. We hated him. When the teacher told us that he wasn't going to finish the last year of junior school, the whole class leapt up and cheered and applauded. Nobody led. We just all did it simultaneously. We were only ten and we were already a mob.
Make the best of what you have.
My family was quite poor when I was growing up. I never had a new toy or new clothes until I was old enough to get a job and pay for those things myself. Until then, it was second-hand everything. I did feel a little left out of the "good life" that everyone else seemed to be having, but I never let it really get to me or hold me back in any way. No one ever teased me about it either.