Dignity isn’t determined by wealth. I have friends that teach at a school in West Africa where water is a luxury. Yet the people are always clean and keep their clothes clean. They have thatch roofs and dirt floors, yet they sweep those dirt floors. They may not have a bed to sleep on, just a pallet, but they make up that pallet. Usually when my friends return for a time of rest each summer I get the children of the school a large bag of tootsie rolls because they make good chocolate there but the people don’t get it, as well as a soccer ball and jump-ropes. Many of the games the children play there involve intricate hand-clapping or races while jump-roping. Yet the interesting thing to me is you never see these children pouting or whining that they have it hard. They live with dignity even when though they are dirt poor.