Third Way

disaster, the country was susceptible to increased levels of damage and destruction, given that much of their infrastructure was not built in a way that would allow it to be able to withstand the severe weather conditions. The reasons behind the severe and chronic poverty in Haiti are disputed…

Transgender or third gender communities have been a part of history in a variety of countries and cultures for thousands of years. From the balka people of the Phillipines, the two-spirit people of the American indigenous, and the sworn virgins of the Balkan Peninsula third genders have been a part of history all across the world. This paper will examine the Hijra of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, specifically their history, current standing as citizens, official recognition as a third gender,…

Social Networking in Third World Countries Many people assume that third world countries have little, if any, modern technology. It is thought that developing countries like these are more like Cuba, stuck in a past decade or era. These thoughts are caused by the great increase in extreme poverty commercials and documentaries depicting people with no technological advancements or seem incapable of using these advancements if available. Scores of people are shocked that Arabians, Africans, rural…

Citizen of a Third World Country In the world today, people living in developed countries will see commercials or hear ads about people in third world countries living in poverty. They begin to think about how sad it is, then within the next ten minutes they forget all about it. People only know a small portion of what it is like to live in a third world country. Unless one has traveled abroad, they do not know about any other way of living other than their daily routines. Those in third world…

literature seems to suggest that, while immigration into the first world removes the individuals from certain third world problems such as instability and health crises, it imposes different problems like segregation and discrimination. Debatably, these problems are more manageable and favorable to some immigrants. Globalization does not influence all segments of society in the same way, so it is unlikely that dissimilar circumstances will lead to similar results; however, there is a general…

globalization but so has the third world. The factory type jobs that are being relocated to third world countries, are nothing but modern day slavery, and actually hurt the people in the countries. Capitalism without globalization I contend, has outgrown the United States because the biggest institution that helped the United States become an economic behemoth was slavery. Without slavery, capitalist will seek to fill its void, which is labor that cost next to nothing that in third world…

A Reaction to Narayan’s Dislocating Cultures. Uma Narayan’s article raises multiple questions about how third world issues are perceived by western bodies. In her article, Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism, she looks at the “‘effects’ that national contexts have on the construction of feminist issues and the ways in which understandings of issues are then affected by border crossings across national boundaries” and how culture is invoked in explaining the…

"Life on the Global Assembly Line" written by Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes condemns the exploitation of women industrial workers in third world countries. The authors ' explicit and detailed writing style engages the reader and reinforces the seriousness of the subject matter. By focusing on intolerable working conditions and overwhelming health hazards, Ehrenreich and Fuentes provide further detailed evidence of this abusive practice. Their article, while several decades old, still…

while finding a way to make it through, will become stronger in the end. Although the perseverance and dream of a young girl, to become a nurse, never came to fruition, her struggles and sacrifices enabled her to move out of a Third World country. Even if in the end the final dream is not wholly fulfilled, with strength, determination, and sacrifice, making a better life for oneself is achievable. In The Dreamer, Diaz writes about his mother’s rough childhood in a poor Third World country,…

people focused on women’s rights, such as the right to vote, property rights, and overall equity. The second movement shows how capitalism is a very gender-biased politic, and it is intolerant to women and their very little economic involvement. The third movement is still going on today as it focuses on defining gender terms and classifications. It considers the LGBT community and explains that feminism is not just for women. Peet and Hartwick emphasize that feminism should play a big part in…