Why are the poor shunned? The reasons are complicated
- Written by: Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
Jon Tyson/Unsplash, CC BY-SAIn a study of 19th century ideas of poverty, the German historian Beate Althammer observes a strange dichotomy. On the one hand, “there existed a deep-rooted tradition of ascribing to the poor a special proximity to God”. As a Hamburg teacher wrote in 1834:
Who obliges us more to sympathy and reverence than...
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