Honestly confused

In Korea there is this common thought that orphan kids have no one to depend on, no family connections, are poor and can't fit with kids with families (I'm not saying everyone thinks like that) so they tend to look down on them and show a lot of sympathy and stuff. So this is actually pretty normal.

I think it's just in korea

Thing is, this taught kindness goes bothways. It can stem from genuine want to help, or it can also be seen as a move to differentiate these kids from others. Orphans are easy targets of ostracism because they are grouped into a minority who don't have much backing.

Though Korea's socialism is on another level with all the chaebol bullying and corruption cases, society in general just have this classism thing going. It is always nice to show sympathy to those in need, but it'll be hard to get rid of all prejudice so long as the majority sees them as a disadvantaged minority group.

Oh no that one I understand. It's the extreme prejudice in manhwa that I was talking about. Like looking at orphans as if they're a disease. But maybe I shouldn't be surprised.

orphans can get fostered or adopted simply to receive money from the government. in poorer countries, they don't do background checks, eg. in first world countries, it's extremely expensive to adopt and you have to go through multiple background checks.

i know someone who ran away and completely cut off ties once they were 18, as they were essentially being used to cook, clean , and were always being punished, whilst their adoptee's birth son was treated completely the opposite.

How sad. I have a few relatives that family friends who adopted because they couldn't have children of their own, and they really love their children. Here, the government don't provide aid to people who adopt, so those who adopted really REALLY want to have a child.