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Originally posted by SazBomb:

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Originally posted by Queen of the High Teas:
I'm not sure what it's trying to achieve. The fact that the woman from the poor family spent all that money on a laptop when her kids need clothes seems to reinforce a very negative stereotype.

The family last week were lovely... the woman paid off all the bills and her daughters. Then with the next lot she started doing a course while the kids were at school so she could better provide for them

I dunno, it just feels a bit exploitative and wrong to use poor kids to teach rich kids how lucky they are. It all just smacks a bit of the Victorian concepts of the deserving and undeserving poor. I know that the poor familis are grateful and it's great that they are getting help. I just don't think an entertainment show is the right way of achieving that. I won't watch it again, I just didn't feel comfortable with it.

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Originally posted by Queen of the High Teas:

I dunno, it just feels a bit exploitative and wrong to use poor kids to teach rich kids how lucky they are. It all just smacks a bit of the Victorian concepts of the deserving and undeserving poor. I know that the poor familis are grateful and it's great that they are getting help. I just don't think an entertainment show is the right way of achieving that. I won't watch it again, I just didn't feel comfortable with it.

I agree Queen. If rich/well-off folk want to give money and support poorer people or give to various causes, then so be it, and good for them, but there is something about it being televised and the rich giving the money 'letting' themselves be 'seen' to be giving to the poor, that makes me cringe, and feel a bit nauseous. The whole show is just so patronising and condescending IMO. I get the impression that they are saying and thinking "Oh the tragic poor folk, isn't it a shame?" Icky, condescending crap, Won't watch it again.