Social Discrimination

Capitalism originates a society in which there exist 3 classes: Top, half and bottom.

The division of people would be the greater percentatge of people in middle class and the lowest in highest class, but with the crisis lot of people is descending from half to low.

In every's day life we can see this discrimination from the upper classes to the lower classes in different things, places and opininios such as in the underground you see lots of racist faces.

But my point of view is that even middle-classes peoplediscriminate a upper clas person because the values and roles they have been told saying estereotypes so this ``discrimination´´ I don't think is really big in terms of social classes.

Arrested a woman in London by racist insults at the tram

"You're not British, you're Black!". A 34-year-old woman was arrested Sunday in London after utter racist insults in the tram ride from the capital of United Kingdom and that they transcend after being posted on the internet. The detainee, who holds her child while he sermonizes to a black woman on the London Tram, begins his insults with the following sentence. "What it has turned into this country...? In a lot of blacks and poles. You are not English, none of you are British. do you know what? Again where pussy you have left".

And continues: "Go back to your country. Not come to mine. "Great Britain is nothing now, Britain is fucked". Then, one of the passengers asked to moderate his language because there are children. "I have a child here," says the woman.

The incident took place between Croydon and Wimbledon's London urban transport service stations. Security of the London underground officials said: "we will not tolerate any form of racism in the metro network and do our utmost to track down the person responsible"

Racism is understood as the defence of the racial sense of an ethnic group. Many times we hear statements about persons immigrants that are not true and that serve to justify attitudes of racial discrimination.

Regarding the previous post, I think that to start people immigrants, like the rest of the citizenship, pay their taxes and therefore have the same right to enjoy public services (health, social assistance, school...), so to be clear, they have the same rights as white people have. Some people don’t have the same vision and so, they normally discriminate them. Race discrimination is part of racism, and it can be said of racism that it uses race or ethnicity as criterion for judging inferiority or superiority of other people; this may happen all over the places, such as in the Street, in the metro and even in a very common place, in the workplace. Considering that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out therein, without distinction of any kind, in particular as to race, colour or national origin. Considering that the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 20 November 1963 (General Assembly resolution 1904 (XVIII)) solemnly affirms the necessity of speedily eliminating racial discrimination throughout the world in all its forms and manifestations and of securing understanding of and respect for the dignity of the human person. In actual fact, Racism can be stopped in many ways but there are those who will live up to the stereotypes of their own police, which perpetuates more hatred.

In the news, the woman has a child on top of he rand she starts discriminating in a violent way in front of him and other children in the train. It is actually really difficult to teach children to have a non-judgmental viewpoint when it comes to race because of the people who live up to the stereotypes. If children are educated in the best way, the racial discrimination will decrease and so there will be less racists and more Peace in the world.

To end, the following phrase will add up all the previous information:

“When someone speaks to me I notice not skin colour

but the colour of their feelings.”

Discrimination against women

We can see how in modern societies women are still discriminated, we can see this in countries as Saudi Arabia were women are seen as being inferior to men and are treated in that way. This in other countries has changed a lot and there is a gender equality. In the news lately there has been a case of a women who has been pored on top acid by a man, and the mens judge veredict has been that he had to be pored on also acid on his face but less than the half she has been pored on. We can see how in this county which is Saudi Arabia women are seen inferior to men which is for the times we are at very unmodern and seen badly by the rest of society.

In this countries we can see this inequalities due to society and religion, which have a very strong repercution in this countries, are controlled mainly by men who have considerable power within politics and the workplace. In this countries men are which have the power in their houses, if they are very rich they usually have more than one wife and they are the breadwiners. In the other hand women can note ven drive and they have to stay at home, they can not go alone without another men to the street o even leave the country without the permision of the men they are with. This are serious inequalities which lead to this judge veredict in this case. In this countries all women depend of a men and this does not occur in more developed countries as are the ones in Europe.

Another reason for this massive inequality in gender is that men generally have a bigger share of rewards such as status and wealth. In the case of this countries it is not only generally it is in nearly all cases and this reward in wealth is due to that women can not work and for this a man has to take care of them and by this men gain status and women decrease in status. Due to all of this occurring what finishes happening is that men have a bigger repercusión in judgments and by this happening when there is a court of a women against a men they usually finish winning or getting less damaged as in my example.

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Why are families changing? Victor de Santos

Why are families changing?
In American society, 20 years ago there was a type of family seen as the only valid one. This type of family was called the nuclear or conjugal family; this consisted in a family formed by a married men and women with their dependent and not married children. However things have changed and other types of families have gained power and influence making the stereotype of ideal family less popular and also making families change.

Family can be defined as a group of people joined by consanguinity (birth), marriage or because of co- residence or shared consumptions. Families are changing for various reasons that include:

Lone parental families have increased; this has been especially caused because divorces have risen, divorces are not longer seen as before because religion and other factors have lost the influence they had before. Also women no longer depend in men so they can become independent. This type of family is formed by a mother (more frequent) or father and their dependent children. This normally occurs because parents with children get divorced and children prefer to stay with the mother, also the death of one of the parents can lead to a lone parental family or the loss of the custody of their children of one of the parents.

Step families have also increased because divorces have increased. This type of family consists in mixed parents: one or both parents remarried, bringing children of the previous family into the new family. Nowadays this type of family is gaining influence in our society because before this type of family was very reduced in number.

Also couples decide not to marry so much. Cohabitation families consist in a couple that lives together with their children but without being married. This is happening because of financial reason that don’t allow the couple to marry, same sex couples are increasing, personal reason, couples think marring is not necessary, etc.

Finally gay and lesbian families are beginning to rise and to act like a normal family. This consists in a family formed by a couple of the same sex. At the beginning homosexual couples were very unpopular and gay couples had to maintain secret their relationship but this has changed and this type of family is seen as a normal and adopting children by this same sex couples is seen as normal.
In conclusion families are changing because the stereotype of a family is changing and new types of families are being created. Also most women don’t depend any more in their husband and can live independently.

WEBBIOGRAPHY: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/health/families.html?_r=0

Domestic violence, Carlos Ferrer

A new case of domestic violence occured in Medina del Campo, Spain. A women of 35 years old has finished injured after being shooted with a gun by his ex boyfriend while she was in a park. The police didn't have news about other incidents between this couple.
Although many reforms have been made to help women beaten by man, domestic violence continues to happen frequently. Some reasons that makes this happens are:

-economic inequality after marriage and parenthood -different expectations of the roles of men and women and the different pressures they place on families especially during recessions -insufficient housing for single parents and their children -the difficulties of policing domestic violence  -the privacy of the family home -difficulties of public funding of social services to help these situations -higher expectations about married life 
- excessive masculinisation/feminisation of media presentations of sporting heroes/celebrities 

Normally we can relate this domestic violence to inadequate socialization, learning the wrong rules, norms and roles(negative influence of family background and home environmental). People with a low status are normally the kind of persons that will commit criminal behavior. The gap between expectations and reality make them feel relatively depravity and this discontent made lead them to act that way. A man beating a women is a way of feeling powerful because they think that at home everything must be done as they say. They don´t accept that a women have the rights to decide or do what she thinks. And if a women decides to leave him he can´t accept this decision because this kind of men have the idea that women belongs to them and also there is the influence of his peer group, because he can lose status between his friends if his women divorces him. 
Domestic violence many times is not reported to the police because:
-the victim may believe that the police will handle it insensitively.
-they feel ashamed 
-they are frightened because the think that if they tell someone the situation at home can become worse.
-the law normally don´t do nothing in this type of situation.
-victims of violent crime consider the issue to be private, prefer to deal with it themselves. 

In our country there are more women asking for help to associations and probably in a short time there will be strict laws against domestic violence. Something that we can´t not see in other countries were religion and ethnicity permit men treat women as they want and that makes that men lose respect towards women, and young girls, that in many countries are rapped, and nobody do anything to help them. 

Natural or not?

Since the beginning of humanity social orientation has determined your status on society. Society has always repressed these people making that even now people don't have the courage to express their feelings out loud. Nevertheless there have been radical changes due to their willingness to change society's approval. But did they really make a change? 

After decades of demonstrations and displays of the right of freedom and expression, homosexuals unfortunately haven't been able to win society's and government's heart. With their motto "Everyone has the right to decide!" They have been willing to finally get the right they are fighting for. Homosexual marriage is playing an essential role in most of the discussions nowadays. Dozens of courts battle against gay marriage. But, why? Some people argue that having parents of the same sex is bad for children. Nevertheless other people highlight the idea that marriage is irrelevant to parenthood. Gay marriage is part of gay rights, which are at the same time part of civil rights.

People argue that the government is using sexual orientation as an excuse to deny gay marriage. The truth is that the state has acquired to win the battle as it has convinced society of frowning at homosexual relationships, meaning that now, as a consequence, gay partners are being repressed by their own society as they can't do the same thing everybody does. In addition society has created stereotypes that attribute a more aggressive and masculine view of homosexual women and more feminine and fragile views of homosexual men.

Finally, homophobia has extended through the whole world even young children grow up being forced to think that loving someone of your same sex is bad and without having an opportunity to develop their own opinion about this. Homophobia has even reached the point of extreme violence. How far can we let homophobia control the thoughts and actions of our society?

Dedocracia - Salvados

The main purpose of this video is to make people aware of how many Government Consultants haven’t been chosen via democracy. The program explains how the politicians have elected their consultants by pointing with their finger instead of using democratic methods. 

Consultants are professionals hired by the Government to give politicians expert advice on particular matters. In Spain there are between 15000 and 17000 consultants. We might question whether many of them have been elected because of their friendships or because of their technical skills.

When a person relies on someone, they trust and believe that the person of confidence will be capable of carrying out many of the specific tasks required in the job. In many cases this person ends up expecting something in return, as there might be a family link or friendship involved. This is what happens to many politicians as they trust family members or friends without having previously checked their technical skills.

This video also shows another problem. Politicians are able to access to an exaggerated number of consultants, as there is supposed to be no limit. This is important, as the government could end up having more consultants than councillors. To what point could the number of consultants increase?

Fortunately, nowadays this practice has stopped as the state realised that there were too many consultants for a reduced group of councillors.

All in all, it is clear tht in this particular case democracy is not being fully applied, as sometimes, consultants are chosen based on personal interests rather than based on professional criteria.

                                                                                                                        Laura Arias