What is sustainability? Many international immigrants define sustainability as the conversation of the infrastructure society dwells in by means of changes in societal complications such as social inequality. César Chavez and the Union Farm Workers fought for a more sustainable lifestyle through portraying and altering the views of social inequality among Mexican immigrants and laborers in the agriculture field. In accordance, humanity must fundamentally engage in social equality and rights in order to achieve the form of sustainable equilibrium. As a result, immigration within sustainable countries has boomed more extensively in recent years due to the fact that more migrants are yearning for a better and brighter lifestyle. As an award
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Above all, Mexican immigrants are still enduring the one thing they were escaping from in the first place, a horrid lifestyle. César Chavez and the UFW proclaim white farm owners are exploiting Mexican Immigrants in low and immoral standards due to the simple fact that the abundance of these immigrants who can either read or write are easily a controlled target. He notes, “[growers] continued to bring in nearly an unlimited supply of cheap laborers from Mexico, desperate for money. But once in the US, their employers can use [immigrants] as strike breakers and have them deported if they complain…The growers are too rich. They’re too powerful and they’re too racist” (Farmworkers Strike). Based off César’s statements, there exist a strong resemblance between white growers who were ultimately using Mexican immigrants and oppressed them similar to the way older white growers were using African slaves during the 1800s. This comparison promptly supported by prominent Emory University Professor Marc Bousquet describes, “laborers’ working condition as the return of slavery; the end of democracy” (Bousquet 143). By operating under circumstances of social oppression and terrible work conditions, Mexican immigrants are unable to sustain themselves due to the fact that their lives are simply stolen. Furthermore, this proves that Mexican immigrants coming to America in search of a better lifestyle in the end are not receiving social equality in which is a necessity for sustainability of the infrastructure of
Above all, Mexican immigrants are still enduring the one thing they were escaping from in the first place, a horrid lifestyle. César Chavez and the UFW proclaim white farm owners are exploiting Mexican Immigrants in low and immoral standards due to the simple fact that the abundance of these immigrants who can either read or write are easily a controlled target. He notes, “[growers] continued to bring in nearly an unlimited supply of cheap laborers from Mexico, desperate for money. But once in the US, their employers can use [immigrants] as strike breakers and have them deported if they complain…The growers are too rich. They’re too powerful and they’re too racist” (Farmworkers Strike). Based off César’s statements, there exist a strong resemblance between white growers who were ultimately using Mexican immigrants and oppressed them similar to the way older white growers were using African slaves during the 1800s. This comparison promptly supported by prominent Emory University Professor Marc Bousquet describes, “laborers’ working condition as the return of slavery; the end of democracy” (Bousquet 143). By operating under circumstances of social oppression and terrible work conditions, Mexican immigrants are unable to sustain themselves due to the fact that their lives are simply stolen. Furthermore, this proves that Mexican immigrants coming to America in search of a better lifestyle in the end are not receiving social equality in which is a necessity for sustainability of the infrastructure of