Bah, American ain't so bad. There's such variety in one single
  country that pretty much anything you find in another country
  you can also find here in some form. And you're right:
  waitresses can get another job - it's still a weird type of
  income. Oh! The Caste system in India where they have "the
  untouchables" (example: a village where the people eat rats -
  they're untouchables). We don't have ...a caste system in
  America right? Wrong - we do. Who is untouchable here in the
  USA? Homeless people. Yup. We don't touch them, have little to
  do with them, they're blamed for many crimes. The big difference
  is that we have social services somewhat available and offer
  some assistance. (its a unique situation though because once
  they closed the mental institutions the people had nowhere to
  go. And even today, mentally unstable folks whose parents and
  ... "