Blog 1: Ignoring global Inequality

This article discusses how people are not always taught and fully assured what rights they have and how the international law needs to be enforcing the governments so that they can teach citizens and inform them on what rights they actually have. For example, this article goes into the topic of gender inequality, which is made up of a person’s race, gender, religions, and other backgrounds. Another topic that is brought to attention is females, and how females are more likely to be poor if they come from a marginalized ethnic group, and if they were to come from a neglected region of the country. This also corresponds with political and civil rights, pretty much determining a person’s economic and social right. For example the article discusses how if one is stationed at the bottom of the social pyramid most likely they will also be at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Overall this article is extremely interesting because it really does make me worry about others and how they are supposed to surpass and rise above inequality if they were born into it. For example if you are a female you are not seen as high up as a male is because males are considered to be more privileged then females especially when it comes to the work environment. Another example of inequality is race, whites have privilege where as African Americans are oppressed. Our society has unconsciously established these rules of privilege and oppression and it has caused great inequality all over the world. Society needs to take a step back and realize we are all fighting to make it through the day and based on our gender, race, culture, religion, or any other backgrounds, no one person is better than the next because of who they are of what they simply believe in.


9:05pm 1/31/13
Meredith Casacchia

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/2013125113659521297.html