Rich Dad Poor Dad, Poison of Society A Critique to a Popular Discourse

Abstract

In most cases academicians ignore popular discourse in their academic life. Though unscientific, popular discourse holds value in people ' s daily activities since they shape and re-shape people ' s ways of doing things. For that case, then we need to interrogate their contents and analyze their objectives and implications so that garbage can be revealed for the betterment of society. Without a critical examination of such discourses, it may imply we accept even worthless facts which destruct our societies as given. From that backdrop I pose a critic to a book titled "Rich Dad Poor Dad What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor and Middle Class Do Not."1 Meanwhile I also reflect the discourse in African rural areas particularly Tanzania.