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Slums Around The World
Slums Around The World
By:Bala Jing Xiong
Slums in Manila
Hundreds of thousands of people live in squalid conditions in Manila's slums, eking out a living within sight of the mansions owned by members of the wealthy, or people that has immense wealth.
Other Slums
How Slums hinder development
It hinders development in four different ways, social, economic,
political and intellectual.
Social:Slums develop communities that has strange and dangerous
behaviors . These behaviors threaten the lives of the families
living in that society, they include; not respecting the neighbors
privacy, abuse other people's rights like money, self and religion,
the spread of dangerous social issues such as organized robbery,
taking drugs, alcohol addiction, mutual violence and commit
adultery relatives or incest; illiteracy rates are high in these
communities while life expectancy rates are very low.
How do Slums hinder development
Economic:Slums depend on jobs that are considered inferior, legal
and illegal jobs such as drugs and children trade, fruits and
vegetables trade transferring between the near neighborhood areas
as these slums are on the city sides, in addition to the house
workers at the side of women and small girls. Furthermore, children
labor is very spread in these areas, there is no rights for this
children. Moreover, the slums dwellers are controlling a wide space
of land owned by the government which lack the abilities to build
infrastructure, public services and facilities necessary for
living. These government owned lands are illegally controlled by
the slums with the local authorities' inattention . These slums are
hindering the way of overall development.
How do Slums hinder development
Culture:Slums are the exporter of a strange culture based on the
envy and dissatisfaction on the society as whole, it is a place
where overpopulation, lack of infrastructure,greed, no loyalty
towards country, no capable leaders to lead them and regardless of
the law.Political:There are all sorts of people that involves
themselves with cults and illegal jobs, all these is caused by
Poverty.Political ideas such as democracy, dialogue, other and
variety acceptance, forgiveness and partnerships are all absent in
these areas.
Names of Slumbs in different places
# Villas de emergencia or villas miseria in Argentina# Barrio or barriada in Puerto Rico# Champerios or tugurios in El Salvador# Asentamientos (settlements) in Guatemala# Barrios de chabolas and barrios bajos in Spain# Bairro de Lata in Portugal# Barrio Malo in Dominican Republic# Bidonvilles in French-speaking countries# Bustee in Hindi(India)# Cantegriles in Uruguay