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Andrs David Crdenas Palencia. 201124232
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LOWER CLASS OF THE
UNITED STATES AND POOR CLASSES IN COLOMBIA
Poverty is a common reality and social phenomenon that share
many countries in the
world. Colombia and the United States are not the exception. In
Colombia and the United
States many people suffer of the oppression of a hierarchical
society where the privileges
increase or decrease according with your position in the social
pyramid. Fourteenmillions of people in Colombia are poor according
to socioeconomic standards. 1 In the
United States near of forty six million of population were poor
in 2011. 2 Lower class is
associated with poverty in the United States and is one of the
three major class of
American society: upper class, middle class and lower class are
those. The classification
of social classes in Colombia is different. In Colombia the
society is divided in six
economic strata. These divisions affected your style of life,
income, job opportunities and
level of education. Strata classification determined many of the
social relationships and
opportunities that you have in your life, the household in that
you born determine, in
many cases, your success and your style of life. 3 On other
hand, the focus of this essay is
contrasting the same and different characteristics that permit
associate the lower class of
the United States with the poor classes in Colombia.
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In Colombia you ascend in the pyramid of social system according
to the strata.
Strata one, two and three are the poor, although these mix the
lower and working class of
American social system; four and five strata are the middle and
high-middle class,
respectively. Finally, six strata are the rich or the upper
class. The poor people in
Colombia
Lower class is associated with services employees, low-level
manual laborers, and
the unemployed. Many people have not higher educationLower class
households can be below of the line of poverty, also lower class is
the
people most vulnerable in the economic system of the United
Sates 4
The lower class is composed for the people with the more low
education, low status
job and low income in the society, many people receive public
assistance. 4
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