Nassy's Corner: Why I cried after learning how we react to poor, rich kids

I once watched a documentary that moved me to tears. The producers wanted to know how people would react to two children facing different situations.

The producers dressed a little girl so nicely. She wore beautiful clothes and looked adorable. When she was left at the side of the street and also in a restaurant almost everyone stopped to inquire if she was looking for her parents.

Some asked if she could give out an address or phone number so they could call her parents. Some people even stayed with her for so long. They smiled at her, talked to her and complimented her.

In short, they were all so good to her as if she was theirs. The girl felt loved and happy that strangers were so good to her.

She then dressed again but this time her clothes were dirty, her face had traces of dirt, basically, she was dressed like a homeless child.

When she walked into the restaurant,  she sat at a table but immediately one lady on the table told her to go away. Anyone she went to either moved away from her or brushed her fingers off them.

Not even a single individual treated her as they did when they saw her before all dressed up. At a point, the producers had to stop filming because the girl had begun to cry.

When asked why she said she felt so sad and that the people were indifferent to her than before. They never even looked at her much less treat her as good as before.

So the question on the floor is why? Why are we so disgusted by the underprivileged, why are do we treat them so badly? Not just the underprivileged but people who are different than we originally expected.

Our reactions to some of these people have consequences, but we never really own up to them, we only judge.

Many people deal with rejection in different ways. A university lady from a poor background with a sugar daddy and we judge her. But it is this same two-faced society which treated her like a nobody and made her so things she felt she needed to survive.

Others fall into depression, commit suicide or subject themselves to many things because of our actions.

The five fingers are not the same so it's up to us to shed this clothing we have on and put on a new one. One that accepts everyone in society regardless of what they have or who they are.

 

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