ELEVEN MINUTES

Last night I finished reading a book of one of my favorite authors Paulo Cohelo. The book is named Eleven Minutes, when I finished reading the book I went with my mom and started giving her a breif description about the book because I wanted her to read it. The book is about a Brazilian poor girl looking for opportunities in the big cities, suddenly she was involved in a prostituion work. The conflict was that when the girl started earning money she taught that with that job she can actually get everything she had always dreamed, and thing like that. My mom was really interested in what I was talking, but she interrupted me beacuse she remebered something she saw on TV in the morning. She started telling me about a program she saw of prostitution, but that it was really weird beacuse many time we associate the word prostitution with a low class girl, the thing is that in this program the girls that where in this kind of job where middle class and high class girls that where trying like in the book get things that they have always dreamed about having like bags, jewelery, shoes ETC. So when my mom told me about this I looked some articles in internet, and I found one of UNICEF that a recent survey talks about this problem that it not only affect low classes. I think that this is really bad for every girl not only for middle an high class girls even for low class girls and of course also boys. This is another thing we should have more in consideration like many other problems this is also important.

Inequality and discrimination

In current times inequality is more noticeable than ever. The difference between classes is bigger, the middle class is the smallest group, and as always the social class or category means a lot to people. Inequality to me means the unfair difference of opportunities that the richest people get compared to the ones that the poorest get. Seeing it this way we can understand that inequality means that there is also a part called discrimination that gets involved.

Discrimination means the unfair treatment of a group of people according to specific characteristics, such as category, that includes prejudice.I think we all understand why this is wrong, but sometimes we don't even notice we are judging someone.

As I already said inequality leads to discrimination, but it happens the other way around too. When a person is looking for a job looks affect too. The presentation of the person is also important, the people who are considering hiring make a judgement, if they don't like it they discriminate this person. This happens all the time but we don't really think it's wrong because someone with a job like, for example, a salesman, has to have a good presentation. Therefore, this person won't get this really good job, he would find it harder to find another and he probably won't , this means he would be earning no money: Inequality.

So inequality leads to discrimination, I am sure this is wrong; but when it's the other way around it is unfair for some people, but it is the most convenient for the others.

Obviously this problem does not end here, this also has to do with the lack of education, job distribution, overpopulation, poverty and so on. This is a big problem involving many others that has to get deeper into to fully understand and know what to do about it and how.

Social Classes

This has always determined the future of somebody. But why? Why this has to stop the development of a person or the success of somebody?
Since a long time ago, people have arranged the social classes depending on their wealth and their power. These have been the destiny of everyone. Now a day, instead of stopping this ideology or descending it, it is in a continuous growing development and it has emphasis in the working field.
The economic problems have determined the social classes but we people have the idea or the criteria that depending on our social classes we are different or have different abilities. We have to understand that we all are the same, that we have or that we could have the same abilities but that money can stop this procedure.
We all have the same chances to enter to a prestigious university or school, but sometimes, not having money, or having the fear to be rejected by high society class can evoke us being uncomfortable. We people have to understand and destroy that ideology that belonging to different social classes can stop us from having success in life.
Sometimes, people that is from a low social class, gets frustrated by the fact of being poor and wanting to be have success or being in a prestigious university to study. Sometimes, they accept their destiny and stop reaching that dream. The government should push them and offer them scholarships to continue with their dreams. We know that governments supply scholarships to persons that do not have the capacity to cover a school fees. The government should pay more attention in this aspect because people from the high society are having the wrong idea about people that belong to the low social class.
The government should make deals with universities to start a program to let people that don’t have money to start their carrier or school degree.
We also have to apply values in us to understand that we all are the same and no matter where we or they come, we are all the same and we have the same opportunities as the son of the president from the United States.