Photo: youtube / New York Rescue Mission
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We regularly find great highlights on the World Wide Web! Today: the sad truth of a social experiment.
Would you recognize your mother if she lived as a homeless on the street? Or her father? Your brother or cousin? Most certainly? Do not be too sure ...
A campaign by the New York Rescue Mission provides the sad proof. People like you and me disguise themselves as homeless, are made up and staged. Nobody recognizes his family members . Neither the brother nor the father or the mother. The people for whom they otherwise feel so much suddenly become invisible.
Homeless have always struggled with an unkempt and dingy image. Many of us do not pay any attention to them. So also in the social experiment. "The experiment is a strong reminder that homeless people are human, as we are - with one exception, " said Craig Mayes of the New York City Rescue Mission in a statement. "They are in trouble. And they are somebody's uncle, cousin or wife. "Maybe not from you. But determined by one of us.
