Question

CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING PROPOSITION:

"The way income and wealth inequality (stratification) has changed over the past decades in the United States today is beneficial for our individual citizens as well as serving the greater good of our American Society."

You must answer all three questions:

1.     Describe your position regarding the statement above.

2.     Present details that you believe support your conclusions.

3.     If you were "in charge" of this country how would you re-design the effort/reward system so that children of the Upper, Middle, Working and Lower Class families all had equal chances to participate in the socio-economic competition for success

Answer 1

America today is the world's superpower because of its strong economy and other infrastructures. The increasing amount of equality among the races and colour across the population, the increase in the number of women employees in the workforce, the amount of social security measures have all contributed to the development and success of America. There is more acceptance, tolerance and opportunities for everyone in the country to prosper and progress in this country.
Once America was considered to be the White country and White's country but today it already had a Black president to its credit. The number of Black people and people of colour in the upper middle class in the US shows three progress and efforts jAmerica as a country takes in order to include everyone in the process thus eliminating any speculations regarding its racial and class differences.
Although all seems to be alright, there are few things I would try to make things work for everyone. Firstly, everyone except the White had more privileges which they used to dominate others. All these others of race and colour had a very short time, may be fifty years to establish themselves. I would give them more opportunities which I would call denied opportunities in order to bring them up in the social ladder. Secondly, economically well off people might be stopped of their social security measures, especially, the discounts and freebies that they revive from the government and channelise those funds to strengthen the downtrodden and the oppressed. Finally, I would give first preference to people in the social order in terms of employment, education, medical facilities etc.
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