Unavoidable--Poverty

Unavoidable--Poverty

In these ten years, economic are growing rapidly among the world. The living standard of people is becoming much higher. However, the problem of poverty is also worsening simultaneously. A survey on 2008 conducted by the World Bank revealed that nearly 1.3 billion people are named as absolutely poverty, which is stated as “a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. The World Bank defined the new international poverty line as $1.25 a day for 2005.” (Wikipedia) As more people are being affected, the reasons deep down should be thoroughly investigated. When it comes to inculcating the sense of poverty, the living environment is inevitable, thus family aspect is always the first blame. In the culture of poverty, it is passed from generation to generation generally. For the innate factor, some genes can be hereditary. For instance, their family members are not good at studying, it is hard for them to score a high marks in the exam previously since their genes are not intelligent to study. For the postnatal factor, their lifestyle can be affected by the living environment. For example, when you were born in a poor family, you are used to tighten your belt in order to help your family to save money. They are lack of family support to launch a career. Alongside with the family aspect, individual attitude should also be put the blame on this issue. As the poor people are used to be poor, they are prefer to live for the moment and would not fight for the future so as to improve their living condition. Besides, they are characterized as self- defeating person. Most of them are passive, hopeless and having a negative thought. They usually think that they can do nothing to change their economic outcome. They are lack of ambition to strive for themselves. Furthermore, society plays a major part in breeding this phenomenon. Disappointedly, with the growth of economic, the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Since the people with larger power are the richest one usually, the underprivileged group is used to be exploited for the sake of gaining maximum profit. In this jungle environment, the sovereignty power is controlled by the upper class. Even though the government implements the policies apparently, most of the policies are only benefitial to the upper class. There is lack of chances for the lower class upward mobility. Based on the above mentioned, the roots of poverty are accumulated from the past history and the society. The situation cannot be improved in a short time, consequently, there are an array of influences have given rise to the social problem. To commence with, when children grow up in poverty, they have to suffer various health problem. They are usually undernutrition inside the embryo because their mother absorbs insufficient nutrition. Thus, they have low-birth weight, which is associated with a great deal of avertable mental and physical disabilities like impaired vision and hearing, chronic illness etc. What’s more, many infants may even die when they are just born. This leads to the addition of financial burden of the family and the raise of the death rate in the city. Not only is the health problem of children being affected, but the education of children is also being influenced. Saving unnecessary expenses, student tends to use old textbooks or even borrow textbooks from schoolmates. They cannot use their own book to have revision for tests or exam that is hard for them to get a good result. Also, for the purpose of helping make end meets, some of the children may drop out of school to work for the family. Consequently, they do not have full education to enrich themselves. In addition, the stabilities of the society will be disrupted. Because of the uneven distribution, the underprivileged group has limited resources to survive as they only earn a little. As they are lack of education and working skill to improve their living situation, they would like to use some illegal method to satisfy their demands such as pilferage and kidnap. As a result, criminal cases will be increased and this leads to an unpeaceful and unstable society with a spate of crime. In the nutshell, the problem of poverty is inevitable and the reasons behind poverty are passed on from generation to generation. Yet, the government cannot just adopt a nonchalance attitude towards this issue and foster the exploitation behavior by the wealth people continuously. The government should implement more policies to help the needy so as to improve their living condition.