What motivates people in 3rd world/developing countries to live and stay in their countries? Especially if it's a dictatorship, extreme poverty, difficult to get a job you likes, working from sunrise to sunset, war, other extreme living conditions etc? How do they cope with it and what do they do to enjoy life, have fun etc?
I'm asking because I simply don't know and have never lived in a 3rd world country. If I've never been there, I've no experience and if I don't get an answer, I would stay unknowing. Yes, I know not everyone in 3rd world countries are poor and some can be rich. I'm talking about the most extreme cases here; people living either like people in North-Korea, in wars, refugee camps, slums and similar. People who can't live comfortable lives, have little to no education, works a lot, have little food, are sick etc.
What Motivates People In 3rd World Countries To Live?
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Anonymous
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You're perhaps thinking about life from a place of privilege--a first world way of thinking. If you start out with the basics of food/water/education/malls/police/clean housing/relative safety--it becomes difficult to understand how someone could be happy or functional without those things on a regular basis, but if all you ever knew was a 3rd world life of destitution or living in a war zone, than what is important and valuable to you, may be vastly different. That person may value a day where their bones don't ache vs. free pizza in the quad, or going 2 hours without hearing an explosion. If you look around you, and there are people just like you, all going through the same thing, the struggles in poverty, hunger, lack of education, war, etc, that is normal to you even if you have an understanding that there is "a better life" somewhere else. It does no good to completely just focus on the what ifs and dreams if your current reality is just being in survival mode because you have to be or else you die.
Most people on this earth want to live, and many, to create life, and still more to find some form of happiness. They will want that whether in a prison camp or a Posh apartment in NYC. One's motivations and how that is accomplished depend on your circumstances. Happiness for them is perhaps finding something edible in the streets, and that is the motivation that keeps them going because that allows them to keep moving, and living, with the omnipresent possibility that just maybe somehow, tomorrow may be a better day.
From what I've seen (in real life) as I've had my interactions with these people, they haven't seen anything better than what they live in. Therefore they find it normal, and even tell you how their country is the best and most beautiful country. Simply because they've never tried another lifestyle or lived abroad. They're mostly used to living in poverty and working hard. While some of them are depressed, most of what I've seen are actually happy and content with their lives. They are also ready to fight for their country and defend it even if they don't have the weapons or even the strength. But anyway I've seen poor people from the third world countries way happier and way livelier than people who are rich and got amazing jobs. Because those people live a simple life, they don't worry over the future. They live every day for the present and don't know much, don't read much, don't educate themselves (a few of them do), they just live for the moment.
Ah and what motivates them mostly, is having kids and families. But then they make those kids work in the streets or beat them up if they don't get enough money. It's horrible. Those kids grow up to be like them.. And so on repeat. Some of them enter college and work a decent job... But most of them stay uneducated and poor.
I mean they are better off today than most people was 300 years ago. So I guess it's a question of what kept the pre Industrial revolution people going.
This is the strangest question ever. Are people in 3rd world countries not human? Do they behave differently from people in non-3rd world countries? So, somehow they just ignore the very human biological imperative to continue living and breeding because they live in 3rd world countries? Like if you get stuck in a dead-end job, with very little education, with barely enough food makes you want to kill yourself? If your leader is a dictator and your country's economy is bad you feel like blowing your brains out?
While I admire your curiosity and need to ask questions - which in itself is something worth of praise - perhaps you might consider the all together very sound, very logical premise that humans, as a whole, as a a species, all have the same desires and needs and wants. The biological imperative is to live and breed, and that doesn't change just because a person lives in a third would country.
You don't need to have lived in a third would country to empathize with other people. You certainly don't need to have lived in a third world country to realize that those who live in third world countries are just as human as those who don't.
i don't think you understand the question... i don't think there's a lack of sympathy, but a curiosity of understanding on their drive to live when their situation is less than idilic compared to how most of us do. kinda reminds me when i was in fiji. poor as shit, but happy as a ma'fucka.
Can't say that money is good, or even faculties are, education is bad too. Life is super expensive, and salaries are down to the ground. Still there is the part of living a simple life and being relaxed.
Survival and the will to live are instinctual. There is no question what motivates people to live. The question is what would motivate an otherwise privileged person to kill themselves. Don't get me wrong, I understand full well the good reasons to suicide, but way more people are doing it than should be; by tenfold, easily. "Good" and "bad" are relative. What you consider a bad day may be the best day ever to another person. "One man's trash is another man's treasure." The reverse is also true, and relative to the highs & lows, to be sure. You've never experienced joy the way someone does whose life is rife with struggle and sorrow. Travel and feel it for yourself.
No matter what it's my home and I love this place. Might have some disadvantages but it also has its own good things that I can't find elsewhere in the world. I still love my culture, language and heritage. And I wouldn't choose a Western culture or lifestyle over it.
Many people are just homesick for their land and this is especially true for me being a patriot.
What motivate people in develloped country to suicide, get addicted to drugs, beeing co-dependant and angry? What fills the heart of human beeings? Not money , a bad government nor wealth
Since I lives in a first world country considered the most successful one by both FN and Amnesty I., I can answer. The reason why suicide happen is because of certain diseases and disabilities are genetic; something you can inherit from your parents or grandparents. Other reasons are because of accidents giving people too traumatic injuries, bullying and mean people. Bullies/mean people, diseases, disabilities and injuries are international; meaning it exists in every countries. It's however more people in the 1st world that gets a decent healthcare than in the 3rd world. Half of the 1st world's problems from my experiences are bad genes. Depression and anxiety is something you can inherit from your family.
Not so sure about the 1st world bad genes theory... Depression and anxiety are spiritual illness develloped late after birth and from evolving in a stressful environment with human beeings unable to cop with stress but still showing you the path. You heal this with seld devp if you are brave enough to look deep inside yourself...
trust they want to get out of there but not only they dont have enough money they also dont have enough education to know what to do, feeding themselves is the only thing they have ever knew. i do live in a 3rd world country but as poor as poor those pictures you think of so i see a know alotta poor people. they dont wantto live like that but there is not any choice for them
Well most of us are bothered with a survival instinct... Frankly it is more likely for those of us living in the first world countries to decide life sucks and we don't want to do it because we are not so consumed by the struggle to stay alive that we can actually spend time contemplating that
I saw people who children in third world countries playing football and being happy / having fun. I guess as long as they have a loving family and some friends that would be enough like motivations to live.
Non-greediness. Satisfaction with what they have & try making everything out of it. Faith, humanity, realisation, beloved ones, media, things we can't understand sitting at our homes with every comfort!
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Anonymous
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Love, family, friends, hope, faith, community and a feeling of belonging.
@flatisin are you okay, Buddy? You seem to be an insane person. Get help. @samoht89 that is interestingly true. most 1st world countries are usually less religious, the USA has in comparison a rather large number of religious people. It's pretty odd, but then again, what isn't odd about the US, right? But that still doesn't really change anything. Look it up. The US isn't even one of the 20 most religious countries. Looking at that list you'll find poor African and Asian nations. The percentages of the religious people there is as high as 99%. it's crazy. Just look it up.
thats cause a lot of people in the u. s identify as agnostic or athetist, and those aren't religions. they're just the belief in god. we're still the most religious country in the world, regardless of "belief"
Because people generally like to be alive, and just because their situation is bad doesn't mean those people think "wow this place sucks I'm gonna go kill myself"
God and Religion, if you notice something in third world countries, it's majority of the population are religious or at least prone to religious missionaries. It's almost like Poverty is synonymous with Religion. Many African nations are christian,
In desperate and hard times when people have nothing, they become closer to god and grateful for life. if you was to put billions of investment into these places ; into such as schools, hospitals, roads, shops, markets , harbours, telecommunications, networking, buildings, you would see religion disappear and the population turn atheist
So it turns out, different religions have different effects on the economy. Even within Christianity, Protestantism's effects are different from Catholicism's.
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Survival instinct, the hope to get a normal life some day
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Anonymous
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Just survival, I think. Some don't get food, shelter and cleanliness, so they search for it in order to survive. Most people in 1st world countries don't need to fight to survive like that... so they lose their sense of purpose, and get depressed...
If that is slav grassland I would not say that is poor. They can build a beautiful houses. you can not see it to become left-wing and jump into it. that is not a way. Actually, they are still alive. it may be stronger than you who get sick easy.
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