Powerful Photos of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Blocks – 1969-72
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#2Erm, most of the world is still like this.
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#3Erm, most of the world is still like this.
Still, seeing white people living in such a bad conditions is striking.
Please don't take out of context my comment, it's just what I think. I am brown by the way.
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#4The book Angela's Ashes is a pretty solid read. Life in a poor area of Limerick Ireland.
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#5Erm, most of the world is still like this.
It's changing rapidly, though. In 1997, 29% of the world lived in extreme poverty. Today, it's less than 9%. Stunning, but true.
Or to put it another way... 50 years ago, people lived like that in Scotland. They don't anymore. Who's to say that places in the world that live like that today won't be as successful as Scotland has been in putting poverty behind them?
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#7Erm, most of the world is still like this.
It's changing rapidly, though. In 1997, 29% of the world lived in extreme poverty. Today, it's less than 9%. Stunning, but true. Or to put it another way... 50 years ago, people lived like that in Scotland. They don't anymore. Who's to say that places in the world that live like that today won't be as successful as Scotland has been in putting poverty behind them?
Reminds me of the Bronx, from a train window, in about 2005.
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#8Erm, most of the world is still like this.
Still, seeing white people living in such a bad conditions is striking. Please don't take out of context my comment, it's just what I think. I am brown by the way.
Poverty is a class issue, not a race issue. Sometimes they are correlated (US cities, all of the US southeast), sometimes not (west Virginia, rural everywhere EXCEPT the southeast, everything Irish - - you can't get whiter than Irish)
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Still, seeing white people living in such a bad conditions is striking. Please don't take out of context my comment, it's just what I think. I am brown by the way.
Poverty is a class issue, not a race issue. Sometimes they are correlated (US cities, all of the US southeast), sometimes not (west Virginia, rural everywhere EXCEPT the southeast, everything Irish - - you can't get whiter than Irish)
Poverty is a class issue.
Class is a race issue.
Poverty is not a race issue.
And something has gone wrong with this argument.
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#10What's striking is that nearly every one (with only a couple possible exceptions) of these photos show children and family occupants. Did single people (without kids) not live in these tenement blocks, or were in the overwhelmingly minority and these were mostly flats for housing family units? Or were singles just as common, but are not represented in the photographs?