If not totally hopeless, they are as hopeless a people I've ever seen. They now live in a glue-sniffing culture wrought with suicide and lacking in any family structure.
If you haven't seen it, I can see how you wouldn't believe how bad it is.
Then they are hopeless and will soon disappear. But it's hard to believe that none among them is intelligent enough to see what's happening and determined enough to take advantage of opportunity.
This occurred about ten years ago. It was shocking to read of such a self-destructive culture.
So this is the rest of the story....
The Wonderful World of the Nanny State.