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Does poverty draw family and friends closer?

( bbs.chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-11-19 08:25

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I have never been married but was in a long-term relationship that ended. I think our main problem was not money. We were not exactly in poverty but there is always someone richer. I don't think money matters that much. Also, I find that many low socioeconomic families are very tight and very defensive of family members. Some poor people develop fierce family nationalism as a defense against the world that seems to hate them.

Does poverty draw family and friends closer?

Cui Hongwu and his two younger sisters in their run-down home in Fuyuan county, Yunnan province. Their father died in an accident and their mother remarried and left.

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