Generally, anywhere children begin their morning hungry, not knowing if they'll have anything to eat that day.

Luanda, Angola and Lagos, Nigeria with large areas that are incredibly filthy and poor. Their enormous oil wealth could mitigate much of that but the elites steal it all and when they can live in Europe.

Taxi drivers in small coastal Honduras and Columbian towns, who buy a few small fish in the morning and hang them off their car mirrors on strings to dry out in the hot sun for the family meal that day.

China employs millions of rural men and women for construction projects doing manual, dangerous labor. They are viewed as expendable, the willing participants enormous in size, easily replaceable. Death is an accepted job hazard of no concern to the managing class.

Small, poor villages in Vietnam can change their economic fortunes dramatically just by collectively owning a water buffalo to help with growing rice. I've contributed to charities that help them buy one, at the time only $500.

For sheer poverty and a life of despair with no hope of improving, nothing beats India's large cities and their Caste system, IMO the closest thing to entrenched, legalized slavery in the world.

Open sewers, begging children by the thousands hoping for just one bowl of rice that day. The Untouchable Caste who empty latrines and clean open street sewers with buckets and are happy to have a job.

The stench in parts of Mumbai (Bombay) is overwhelming. Brahman cows walking freely in parts of the city shitting everywhere, protected by Hindu religious beliefs.

It was the most depressing large, supposedly civilized city I've ever seen.

Every American should travel off the beaten path or live overseas for a short while just to realize, despite all our shortcomings, how good we have it in the U.S.A.