Your initial post should answer the following in at least a paragraph (250). Be sure to use course material to formulate your answers. Relevant course material may include: “The Culture of Poverty” by Oscar Lewis; “How Urban Ethnography Counters Myths about the Poor” by Judith Goode; and the film House Divided
1. What myth about poverty or inequality do you think is most damaging? What ethnographic or other evidence can be used to debunk this myth? Why is this myth so harmful for our understanding of poverty and inequality, for the people facing financial struggles, or for our ability to find solutions for these problems as a society?
2. If you were an anthropologist planning on studying a working class or financially struggling community, what questions would you want to find out? What issues might you have to be sensitive to?
