I once volunteered to help kids in a rural school in my home country with their math homework. There was a word problem in their textbook that seemed to hit every single possible cultural barrier.<p>It was about budgeting for a couple. The couple had a difficult-to-read name in a language not spoken in that province. Most of the kids couldn&#x27;t even read past the first sentence without stumbling, because of this. The couple in the problem probably earned about as much as all of the students&#x27; parents combined. Both of the people had their own car - while in this village there were about four cars total. The couple had no children, and didn&#x27;t look after any family, while many of the students had children of their own, and anybody in that village who earned an income had a large family to support on it.