Trapped in the cycle of poverty

It is hard for anyone realizing that he/she is helplessly trapped in the cycle of poverty. This is like accepting a fate with what he/she can do to make a living and survive. We all understand education is the only way to break the poverty cycle, but it isn’t that easy as it seems in America since most high paying jobs are still occupied mostly by white-Americans.  From a different perspective, native Indians lived their lives freely before the intrusion of the Anglos. To the native Indians, it is the alien culture, language and economic system that conquered their lives yet they have to re-learn in order to survive. It is like telling Americans to learn everything about Chinese and speak in Chinese IF Chinese conquers America. That is how I felt.