Economic Inequality And Poverty In San Antonio

x“Survival of the Fittest” that has always been my ideology, I had never questioned before why some countries were rich and others were poor. I did question the state of poverty in my country; I had learned in many history classes in high school that when my country became independent we were leading the Caribbean in industry and economy, however by the time I was in high school we were second to last just above Haiti. I always thought that our financial ruin was caused by poor leadership, and not because of colonization or our history of slavery. It was my belief that America and Britain flourished because they were the fittest, in other words they were the best and other poor countries just were not good enough, and did not have capable leaders. As this history class comes to an end, this belief has changed and I know see the cause of this great global inequality, it …show more content…
One very important one was the effect of race, where privilege and opportunities were given to whites and not people of other races. In San Antonio you can see this when you compare the north and the west side, whites were given loans and government assistance to build homes and businesses while other races were denied these opportunities. This created a vast gap in wealth in San Antonio that still exist today, reflected in my service learning at Our Haven of Hope Food Bank, where people of color made up the dominant population, with a small number of whites. The break down of other countries economy like Africa, the Caribbean, India and Mexico etc., created push factors that would see an influx of immigrants, reflected in San Antonio diverse population. While I did not deal with a large immigrant population in my service learning, I can see this occurrence in my daily life, meeting individual who left the poor economic conditions of Mexico and even Jamaica for better opportunities here in