The people are just imitating their government.

The Chinese are great at saving money.

Many poor people have simply made many bad decisions and fail to accept responsibility for their actions.

Why is it that legal immigrants come to the US all the time and within 10 years become very successful - broke, language barrier, culture barrier,etc - it's not easy but these people are used to much worse.
Americans have become lazy and fat, we have changed and no longer appreciate the freedoms we have. We expect everything to handed to us on a silver platter from the government.