Class Division

Of every society that has existed have all shared a shameful characteristic. This characteristic exists as class division. A major factor that drives class division is the poverty cycle. The poverty cycle takes its place as trapping the underprivileged in the cycle for generations. Therefore many of those in poverty have most likely had ancestors and distant relatives that have also experienced poverty. Additionally typically it is not the person’s fault that they are in poverty, but that society has led them to. To sum it up the poverty cycle takes an active role in class division by reducing success for the underprivileged and taking place as a major hurdle to go through in order to reach what is defined as success.

To understand the issue

Many of those in poverty who live in wealthy countries, typically experience poverty due to social or financial issues that they are not able to handle in contrast to those in developing countries who are in poverty due to a lack of resources. Therefore the issue of poverty in developed countries takes place as not a lack of resources but rather due to social inequality. Inequality plays a role in poverty by existing as a great gap between the rich and the poor. When great gaps between the lower and higher class divisions arise, it becomes significantly more difficult for the impoverished to at least reach a higher class in which their standard of life can be improved. Segregation may not exist today, but racial separation still takes place even today and this problem is on the rise because “Low-income blacks were 3.8 times more likely than poor whites to live in high-poverty neighborhoods in 1960, but 7.3 times more likely in 2000.” (prospect.org N.P). The fact that pops out the most in this statistic is that racial segregation still existed in this era. Even though segregation is fully eradicated from modern society its scars still make their mark. The problem also lies in a way due to the misorganization of placing mass scale impoverished communities that have fundings cut off to education, school, healthcare and other social

However this is not the case because “World hunger is a terrible symptom of world poverty. If efforts are only directed at providing food, or improving food production or distribution, then the structural root causes that create hunger, poverty and dependency would still remain.” (globalissues.org N.P). Additionally “The silent killers of poverty are easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes.” (globalissues.org N.P.). Another misconception of poverty that has to be understood is that “Food aid (when not for emergency relief) can actually be very destructive on the economy of the recipient nation and contribute to more hunger and poverty in the long term.” (globalissues.org N.P.) To expand this idea even more, applying food aid to countries that is not purposely for disaster relief can actually be damaging because the impoverished will have access to cheap subsidized food which will make it significantly more difficult for farmers to sell their products in the country. When unnecesary food aid is applied to a country, the country will most likely become dependent on the country providing the resources. Consequently, providing unnecesary food donations takes place as a lose lose situation because the country donating the food spends innumerable amounts of money as well as the impoverished country becoming dependent on these resources and not