The book is different in tone in that it doesn’t explicitly point out things that are lacking (like running water) in a given household, and I don’t remember picking up on the class differences as a kid—partly because we looked most at the children with prettiest clothes! So definitely more in the “global solidarity” vein more than the “look how different things are” vein.
An interesting way of using Dollar Street is filtering by income, rather than country. You start to notice that people all over the world with a similar income level have very similar homes. People at my income level have homes similar to mine; people making, say, $15k a year have homes very similar to when I was in uni. It’s interesting to be able to distinguish between what’s a cultural difference and what’s an income difference.
Wow, that’s a great resource.
The book is different in tone in that it doesn’t explicitly point out things that are lacking (like running water) in a given household, and I don’t remember picking up on the class differences as a kid—partly because we looked most at the children with prettiest clothes! So definitely more in the “global solidarity” vein more than the “look how different things are” vein.
An interesting way of using Dollar Street is filtering by income, rather than country. You start to notice that people all over the world with a similar income level have very similar homes. People at my income level have homes similar to mine; people making, say, $15k a year have homes very similar to when I was in uni. It’s interesting to be able to distinguish between what’s a cultural difference and what’s an income difference.
Yeah I noticed with “cleaning equipment”there’s a very clear distinction between 1. homemade brushes, 2. storebought brooms, and 3. vacuum cleaners.