儘管仍有不少人生活在貧窮中, 但在台灣並沒有真正的貧民區, 可是在美國洛杉磯這個大城市, 貧民區就在繁忙的街道上.
Poverty in the metropolitan Los Angeles
If I were not here in LA, I wouldn’t believe this wide gap between the rich and the poor in the US. You know, we tend to believe that America is a land of opportunity and so on. Maybe it still is but, what I see and what I hear convinces me that the growing gap between rich and poor in this country is consigning people to a fate that is probably inescapable. That is, if you are born poor in America today you are likely to die poor. If you are born rich, the same.
It is so real that it is only a line across from rich to poor. The line in LA is the street. The street is so wide that people on the poor side can hardly get across the line to the other mentally and financially. I was told by my friends here that poverty is even brutally and clearly seen in many rural areas. All of these glimpses make me experience America from the most brutal bottom.
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