Class differentiation in the Dominican Republic may lead to lack of opportunities towards the lower class while high class enjoy the luxuries of a more lavish lifestyle. As I roamed the city looking for pictures of class differentiation I noticed that low class men and women had much less opportunities. Stereotypes towards the low class unable them to be successful and have a lavish lifestyle like the ones high-class people have. For example, if a businessman is looking to start a business and hire people, this man will have his mind preset and will think poorly of low class workers. “Low-class workers are all lazy and are late to work,” he would say.
People on the other side of this argument claim that immigrants help by taking unwanted jobs with very little pay, and in doing that they are helping keep the prices of domestic goods down across the country. Can immigration be really called a problem? It is likely that most people would call immigration a major problem. Even though immigrants take the lowest of domestic jobs and it is agreed that too much money is being spent to thwart illegals from trying to come into the country, immigration ultimately helps the economy because immigrants take undesirable jobs and there is no statistical evidence that immigration is harming our country in any way. In fact the opposite is the truth; there is evidence that immigration helps the economy in boosting the amount of jobs and that wages are altered in a positive way for everybody who works legally.
But, researchers are not shadowing light on why low income people are poor and often stay that way. A healthy, vibrant family man, and a prize winning journalist David K. Shipler seemed concerned about others than about himself. The Working Poor: Invisible in America, tells us that poverty is the fault of society. The poor faces a system that makes it almost impossible for them to rise. The writer, describes the lives of America’s low wage earners and families living in or near poverty line, interviewing many individuals and narrating their stories in great details.
For example, if we know someone is on welfare, we tend to think they are lazy and don't care. When we see poor people, we say they deserve their life because they are lazy and don't try hard enough, and we say homeless people are addicts/alcoholics, but in reality most people in the US are one paycheck from disaster. Really, we as a hole need to stop and think, when we see poor, homeless or people receiving government assistance that could be us, and they
Greed and corruption, in addition to a false sense of "fairness" spread amongst the people, means that it is usually quite easy for those in power to take advantage of the situation. In most socialist communities people are no longer as motivated to work for their success, because their basic needs are met. There is a much higher rate of progressing upwards socially amongst the poor and 'downtrodden' because they have motivation to succeed. Meanwhile, upper middle class and upper class individuals are much more likely to remain where they are, simply because they feel no need to advance themselves. There is nothing to work for.
The dehumanization of the people of the South Bronx allow the people living in these neighborhoods justify their lifestyles while in the same city people are starving. They have become so ‘other’ that the injustices they suffer do not seem like crimes. Kozol quotes Reverend Martha Overall of St. Anne’s church, “Only a very glazed and clever culture in which social blindness is accepted as a normal state of mind which could possibly permit itself this luxury” (Kozol 1995, 188). The people of New York have become blind to the true situation of the poor because they see the poor as something less human than themselves. This definition of ‘other’ has come from the social institutions that allow people to be dehumanized, like the welfare system where recipients are only a
Much like Xquisite Africa, it offers an array of merchandise for a specific ethnic minority in the area. Again, a lot of the people who shop on City Road do not require the specific, culture based products Sanna Silk sells, which could leave them feeling ostracized. There is also a supplementary inequality regarding wealth. From the examples shown in the DVD, Sanna Silk’s prices are prohibitive to some. During the interview the family are quite happy to discuss their wealth and seem to encourage the interviewer to ask about the costly products they sell “Do you see how much one costs or?
As Eighner explains though " a lot of perfectly good food can be found in dumpsters" (Eighner 392). When money and good food are not an option sometime you have to scavenge to make it through. Many people also may be confused on who dumpster divers are. Sure they are homeless people, hobos, scoundrels but many people do not think of anyone past that. Many rich people will dumpster dive, or simply take an object that may catch their eye from the trash.
Economic/Political Analysis -Are the poor and the wealthy equally concerned about the “freedom from fear”? Compare and contrast both speeches to answer this question.- From President Franklins Roosevelts speech and Barack Obamas speech, the poor and wealthy people are fairly concerned about “freedome of fear.” There are quite a few things that a lot of people in this world are in fear of. President also said in his speech that we shouldn’t fear anything, but fear itself. It also, doesnt mean if you are not as rich in this world as others around you, you can not do the things wealthy people do to improve in the world. President Franklin Roosevelt also said in one of his speeches that, you dont have to be rich to be happy in life, happiness in life comes from accomplishment.
Sedaris is clearly not a very adventurous or open-minded man (based on his story). On page 3 he quotes his friend, “This country may have it’s ups and downs, but a bad meal is virtually impossible.” He reacts quite negatively and judgmental to this comment. He also tends to emphasize the content of the food, and how crazy it may sound, rather than the actual taste. There are many things that could sound disgusting, but are in fact delicious to eat. E.g, frog legs.