A Different Kind of Poor: The American Experience

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00:00Whenever you visit the States, I think my biggest thing,

00:04I mean, even though I'm from the United States,

00:06I didn't grow up in the United States all the way.

00:08And the biggest thing that I've noticed

00:09about the United States is there are issues with finances.

00:13There are people that are poor here,

00:14but American poor is not the same as Nigerian poor.

00:18It is not the same as Taiwanese poor.

00:20It's not the same as China poor.

00:23Homeless people in the United States

00:24oftentimes have smartphones.

00:26It's not something that you're gonna see

00:28in other countries still.

00:29And I'm not saying that they have an easy life at all.

00:30I'm not saying, oh, they shouldn't complain

00:32because there's definitely things that are bad here.

00:34But in the United States, by and large,

00:36I noticed that people don't like to go without

00:38and we like to be comfortable.

00:39So when you see somebody that makes above minimum wage

00:43as a single person with no kids,

00:45if you are good with your money,

00:47I think you can be much more comfortable

00:49in the United States and slowly make your way up.

00:52But I think we have a culture here

00:53of feeling like a lot of people deserve something.

00:57So there's a lot of complaints I hear from other Americans

01:00about how much they don't make money,

01:01but I think like, wow, other countries

01:03don't make anything close to what we make.

01:05Like my friend from Nigeria right now,

01:07I would love if you talk to him sometime,

01:09but I think he makes $9 an hour at the moment,

01:12which most Americans would not be okay with.

01:14It's very low pay for us, but he has an apartment.

01:17He has fast internet.

01:18He has a brand new iPhone.

01:20He has AirPods.

01:20He has nice Nikes.

01:22He's got these things he never had before

01:24and it's affordable to him.

01:27Yeah, I think you can if you're smart about it.

01:30And if you're from a country

01:31where you're used to going without things,

01:34that's a lot easier for people

01:35to come to the United States and work hard.

01:37We're not used to going without here.

01:39So if we have no AC in our house,

01:41it's like the end of the world.

01:43If the internet doesn't work, end of the world.

01:45But my friend King, he's from a country right now,

01:47Nigeria has blackouts everywhere.

01:48There's protests going on, you know?

01:50So there are constant blackouts.

01:51There's no such thing as blackouts in the United States.

01:54That would be like the end of the world

01:56if we had blackouts here.

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