If a foreign TV chanel made a program about a British working family and shot it in the middle of an inner city slum, the rest of the world would also assume the whole of the UK is like that too.
Englishman.. There are well over 500,000 Squatter families in Metro Manila alone..Obviously this is only an indicator of the general poverty that exists within the city.
I would say the poor reflect a good representation of the general populace as of today.