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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Letter to the National Science Foundation


Social inequality is a raging plight in numerous third world nations . The gap in between rich and poor had continued to enhance more than the many years . Even the onset in the industrial and technological era has not decreased this gap.

Capitalism , although defined as a social method according to the principle of individual rights (capitalism .org), seems for getting additional fueled the growth of this inequality . The respect for individual rights has become severely skewed towards the individuals who can afford to fight for it Studies conducted on third world economies claim how the world expansion of capitalism is accompanied by increasing inequality in social distribution at the periphery (Maldevelopment - Anatomy of a global failure, ch 5).

A third globe country usually faced with the consequences of this brutal case is Brazil . Brazil 's status in social and cultural problems is terrible , even though most of it have been plain exaggeration (Schwartzman 29) Brazil 's citizens do not all live in third world conditions , some do revel in first world luxuries . But the social divide is as well large that the region is unable to escape from its third-world image.


Brazil is often portrayed as a location where violence runs rampant . As depicted within the film City of God, criminality in Brazil is a trouble the federal government has virtually given up on . Resigned towards notion how the violence cannot be ended , they had concentrated their efforts to containing the violence inside the slums , further aggravating the social unrest from the country . The rich sleeps securely in their mansions , whilst the poor are dying in their rest in their shanties.

City of God depicts in great detail that the individuals living inside the slums of Brazil go for the issues of their daily lives . Gang violence rips the community apart young children enlist themselves to die and innocent persons die everyday.

This criminality and violence is 1 on the outcomes with the social inequality inside region . Evidence of this good inequality can be seen in the contrast among the elegant apartments in Ipanema facing the slums from the hills (Schwartzman 29 ) Brazil 's federal government , even with its large and well-developed and support sectors (Central Intelligence Agency internet site ) has been unable to remedy this rift . As Veras (1 ) put it Brazil itself just isn't a poor nation , but a country of numerous poor.

For a nation having a predominantly white ' population along with belonging for the top ten countries with the largest economies , Brazil ranks in between the world 's highest nations inside the Gini coefficient index of inequality assessment (Wikipedia) Brazil is exceeded only by South Africa and Malawi in this assessment of 92 participating countries (Veras 2).

But in which does this inequality really stem... 

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