Title: Wealth: The significant problem not only in
America, but also around the world
Topic: Wealth
Relation: Conformity and Conflict,
Ch 15. The authors explain about many poor countries female migrate to
developed countries to earn money.
Source: The data I used for this
post comes from the video
“Shocking Statistics:
America’s wealth gap between the RICH&POOR.”
Description: The video is talking
about the wealth inequality in America. It shows us three types of wealth
distribution; Actual distribution of Wealth in U.S.(Reality), What Americans think the distribution is, the
distribution that 92% of people choose as ideal one. The wealth that American
people think each group has been distributed seems pretty similar with reality.
Nevertheless, there is a huge gap between the distribution which is chosen as
IDEAL distribution and Actual distribution of wealth in America. The ideal
wealth distribution chart seems pretty okay with dividing wealth to each class
in America society, however, according to the speaker “Actual distribution
shockingly skewed not only do the
bottom 20% and next 20%. The bottoms 40% of Americans barely have any of the
wealth.” Also, this gives us example by dispersing money to each group. Even
though the lower class works harder and spend much more time to earn money,
they don’t make more than the upper class. We can realize that idealized
distribution is desirable, but it is hard to apply in reality. It is because the
rich occupy most of the wealth, even the wealth for the poor should have. Therefore,
this clip states, “All we need to do is wake up, and realize that the reality
in this country is not at all what we think it is.”
Commentary/Analysis: In Global Women in the New Economy (CC,
Ch15), the author describes the pattern of female migration from the Third
World. This story tells us that most
come from poor nations to find work in rich ones. At the beginning, men started
to migrate to wealthier lands, but as time goes by women begin to move from
poor countries to rich ones. However, those women who traveled can get jobs
with limitations. They can get a job associated with a wife’s traditional role
and these kinds of jobs provide the lowest income. “Women in Western countries
have increasingly taken on paid work, and hence need other-paid domestics and
caretakers for children and elderly people-to replace them“ (CC, 151). This is
the reason why they only can get the lowest income job and this fact leads
those women who come from poor nations not be able to escape from the lower
class who earns the lowest incomes. The video is limited to only in America,
but I thought that this is still related with the article that I read in
Conformity and Conflict. It is because those female who migrate from poor
countries are included in the poor class in U.S. society. And because of people who are from poor
nations have limitation of job opportunities, and it is not possible for them
to be in higher class, like who occupied lower classes’ share instead of those
who are in “lower class”.
