I was watching a documentary about the Karen hilltribes refugees living in Mae Sot on Youtube the other day and my idiot friend (who has never been outside of Canada) said "they are just lazy bums on welfare, they should just go to work."
"Welfare" is the government assistance given to poor people in Canada and the United States. they get money and don't have to work.. some people abuse this system and have many babies and stay on this forever.
he compared the Karen refugees who have no access to education and very limited opportunities to the lazy people on welfare in America.
I have been to poor villages, I have seen poor people that have absolutely nothing and tried my best to help... and I wanted to slap him for being so stupid
and this is usually what happens when you never get out of your country, you have no point of reference to compare with.