Violence Next Door Favelas

One of the documentaries we watched in class called Violence Next Door; Growing up in the Favelas followed teenagers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Baltimore City, Maryland. The documentary was made to show the lives of teens that live in what people call slums, ghettos, favelas, or the hood. The documentary interviewed several teens about their living conditions and how it affects them. Although Baltimore City and Rio de Janeiro are on two different continents, the lives of these teens are very similar. Their conditions affects them emotionally, physically, ad economically. The teens who live in slums and ghettos are often affected by economic factors such as police oppression, social stereotypes, living conditions, and their parents. In terms …show more content…
One of the teen girls in Baltimore city mentioned getting shot on accident just because of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Both Baltimore city and the favela in Rio de Janeiro have gangs in their community that are the cause of most of the violence they encounter. The next factor, which is social stereotypes, comes in to play when the residents of slums try to get jobs. They are denied by work places because of their skin color or where they live. They are not given the opportunity to escape their conditions. One of the biggest problems that effects them is police oppression. The police are corrupt toward anyone who lives in favelas or the hood. They have no respect for citizens that live in those conditions because they see themselves as superior. Police beat, arrest, and terrorize the people who live in these conditions with no probable cause. People in these living situations are oppressed because even though they try to move up in their social stratification. The teens who live in these neighborhood try their hardest to move up in the class stratification through education. They want the opportunity to make changes in their …show more content…
The documentaries open my mind by taking me through the lives of several people who have been affected by economic factors. Violence Next Door: Growing Up in the Favela shows how economic factors such as police oppression, social stereotypes, living conditions, and their parents affects teens that live in the hood or favela in Baltimore city and Rio de Janeiro. The Other Side of Immigration shows how economic factors such as shows how economic factors such as shows how economic factors such as NAFTA, government corruption, and lack of technology and resources. The police oppression in the favelas and slums can relate to the article “The Hyper-Criminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth in the Era of Mass Incarceration” by Victor