I once volunteered to help kids in a rural school in my home country with their math homework. There was a word problem in their textbook that seemed to hit eve

I once volunteered to help kids in a rural school in my home country with their math homework. There was a word problem in their textbook that seemed to hit every single possible cultural barrier. It was about budgeting for a couple. The couple had a difficult-to-read name in a language not spoken in that province. Most of the kids couldn't even read past the first sentence without stumbling, because of this. The couple in the problem probably earned about as much as all of the students' parents combined. Both of the people had their own car - while in this village there were about four cars total. The couple had no children, and didn't look after any family, while many of the students had children of their own, and anybody in that village who earned an income had a large family to support on it.