If you see yourself as a victim, you'll be convinced that the world views you that way too.
The Dartmouth Scar Experiment reveals that.
Participants thought they'd be interviewed for jobs with a fake scar on their face, which they saw being applied by a makeup artist. However, during the touch up phase, unbeknownst to them the scar was removed.
Those participants who believed that they still had a visible scar, reported a massively increased level of discrimination. They also "displayed heightened feelings of powerlessness, self-pity, and an increased tendency to blame others for their failures." (source: Medium).
They believed that they were discriminated against and thus internalized it in a negative way.
The study essentially revealed that regardless of whether there's actual discrimination or not, when one believes themselves to be a victim it results in negative consequences.
Why isn’t Personal Finance taught in schools? It is. Never worked at a school that didn’t teach it. My 8th grader is currently learning personal finance. The problem is that people ignored it like most of the things teachers tried to teach them in HS. Stop blaming the schools.