RICH vs POOR Girl at school : Does money make you popular in class?

They come from different backgrounds, but both seem like kind, intelligent young women. It's nice to see Jei back on here.

Honestly, all the comments here and the video teaches us a lot, I belong to a middle class family and I always got everything that is needed for a happy life and I am really grateful for that , but I realised that sometimes I am not giving my best while I should, my parents are working hard for my studies and I do study hard for exams but sometimes I just don't feel to study and waste all my time just doing nothing...I realise that and I hope I will not have any regrets in future from now on

Does money make you popular yes it's does but it's bring fake smiles , friends...and a lot of talking behind ur back

When I see Jei's gesture (keep holding hands and touch her things) I think she is anxious and defensive. Maybe it's because of previous friends that she cann't trust easily. And from Yeji's, I think she deals with a lot of people during her part time job so she can easily lead the conversation.

The conversation looks comfortable for a stranger talking for the first time so I think they can be good friends

Growing up I didn't get any allowance. Just get myself a full bottle of water for the day and fill my stomach in the morning with food... Talk about a full tank 😂😂😂

I hope they will be friends in the real world after this 😊

Just money won't make anyone popular. Personality and style is what matters more.

Growing up as a little bit above middle class…there were times I didn’t wanna talk about my parents wealth bc I knew kids would treat me different. I felt like they would act fake. And some did, and those ppl didn’t make me wanna trust ppl easily. That made me anxious around ppl cs they don’t see me for me. I only told them about my parents if they asked. Tbh my whole life was full of materialistic things but barely filled with experience with the world. Sure, I can buy things but in the end, it just gets boring esp if idk what i want to buy lol and that happens a lot of times. I’m a simple person who doesn’t ask for much. I got a job bc I didn’t wanna depend on my parents and I knew I was using them to stay in my comfort zone. Getting a job made me more open. I am more talkative. I don’t think too carefully anymore on what I should say and I’m learning more about the world around me. It’s not easy but I felt like I grew more due to that

I was considered as poor in my school, and I felt very self-conscious and it kinda impact me; as I realized that I will never be able to mingle with my classmates and afraid of them looking down at me. Now that I earned more and could even retired early than anyone else, I still fear someone looking down at me but not so much as before. I hope that I can get out of this fear soon.

Poor or middle class teens always study harder and do their best for anything they do not take things for granted and know the feeling of lacking things so well . Rich teens always take things for granted cause they know they have parents that can pay for anything and studying hard is not their priority

funny enough i was actually bullied in high school for having money. what a privileged problem but yeah. i was never boastful nor was flashy but kids in school were still jealous of me.

i feel what yeji's experienced so much cus I do wanna buy things for my friends, go anywhere we like, etc, but it's just me who can't afford it. but when I thought I can, our "tastes" just too different like there's the huge gap between us. for now, idk should I cut them off or just stay with the burdening feelings. ofc they're so kind to me, but sometimes it's not enough cus at some moments there's time when I can't feel grateful enough about what I have.

I realised, most people that are popular in high school has money people don’t acutally care about you personally that’s how most get popular cause of how “rich” they are.

I grew up wealthy, and my friends would gaslight me into paying for everyone, saying things like, “why don't you pay? This meal is such a small part of your allowance."

And this shows how is the mentality in Korea, since they are born, they think of money and materialistic things, and how powerful and indestructible you are being rich and how you can control others with money, that’s why there are tons of corruption cases in Korea even the police is involved sometimes, they buy people with money and benefits, they just think they are better having more than others, sometimes I think they should change that mentality.

Unfortunately this is a huge reality amongst Asian communities, countries, and cultures. Not only being rich and beautiful yourself is important, but surrounding yourself with rich and beautiful people is just as important. And this can lead to a lot of relationships being fake and very superficial and even creates this pressure for a lot of people.

I was broke but I was popular in high school. Because kids knew what's more valuable than money in friendship.

Hmmm, my experience was rather different. My family’s financial level can be considered a little above average. Not wealthy or rich, but we have enough. But growing up I’m a bit involved in my parents small business where we have a stationary shop, in elementary school I tend to bring small cute stuff like pretty pencils, cute notebooks etc etc to sell it at school, then I’ll get a share of money from what I sell at school. So the mindset of earning money is already imprinted in my brain since I was a kid. Because of that, even if my dad basically say I can take the money straight from the place where they kept the money and buy anything I want, I ended up bot doing that at all because I know earning money is not easy. Same thing happened to my siblings. None of us willing to do that even if our parents let us do that. I can ask my dad to buy me things that I want, but again, that never happened because the pleasure of saving money and using it to buy what I want make me feel happier. Stuff like phone, laptop, monitor, electric bicycles etc, I bought it with my own savings. I even do online jobs by translating and other stuff to make money. My parents never really teach us to do what we did. But I think teaching kids from young age the concept of earning money will certainly do them good. While I can’t speak for all kids, because that can also goes wrong, but it certainly work for us siblings.

I was born into a normal family that had enough to eat and spend, which was great happiness for me