In each country poverty can be defined by absolute …show more content…
Therefore, the exact definition of poverty can change from place to place based on what a community views as being poor. The culture a family lives in and is surrounded by will cause “The exact definition of poverty to vary from one community to another. Most people define the term based on their unique cultures, lifestyles, and experiences.”(Allard). As Scott Allard describes, every person has different values, and in one community the people may view not owning something such as a car as a sign of poverty, where as in another culture they would not consider the lack of a car a sign of poverty. Therefore, in developed countries such as America, a familiy considered impoverished by relative standards, could be considered wealthy in a different, underdeveloped country because they have lower relative poverty standards than in