These traits didn't seem to exist in most of those we saw on television.
The article does a good job of covering the key points. The poor are often not accustomed to being challenged to meet their own needs or that of their families, and they don't seem to have the necessary skills to do it.
As God is my witness, I would not have sat stranded on a concrete island for five days hopelessly waiting to die without doing anything to help myself. I really don't get how people could not care enough to want to survive.
"The poor are often not accustomed to being challenged to meet their own needs or that of their families,.."
That is why they are poor. My Grandpa said: "Anybody can be broke from time to time, but poor is a way of life."