People in 1st world ghettos can if they want to, escape poverty but most of them wont go to school, hate education and have great distrust in the law enforcers.
While in developing countries, there is not much of options due to lack of income in most families.
nice job being another white male conforming to a generalization.
as a black male who lives in Essex County , NJ (and the 3rd worse city in the state as a whole) I believe the "hood mentality" is not really what it seems.
I'm around drug dealers and gang members constantly, and it seems like they all want to get out the hood, but get sucked into the "game". Nate you already know how i feel with generalizations like these.
@XTERMIX : Everyone in my city went to school / is going to school, and how are we supposed to feel if everytime we turn on the news some innocent black male gets shot for being human and being afraid, and what..?
These hoods and ghettos ARE developing countries. We didn't have shit to start with.
I'm around drug dealers and gang members constantly, and it seems like they all want to get out the hood