The Hidden Reason for Poverty the World Needs to Address Now

Running Head: Classism
Classism
Essay
System04104
2/27/2019

Classism
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TED TALK Summary
In the beginning of Ted Talk, Gary Haugen told about their experience of police
abuses cases in Rwanda. He told about the experiences during his posting as a Director of
U.N.'s genocide investigation in 1994. He said that it was the greatest failure of the world to
stop the Rwanda genocide. Gary Haugen said that Rwanda was suffering from a great level of
global poverty. Gary Haugen was also part of the greatest success of compassion program of
UN, which was about the fight against global poverty in Rwanda. He also explained about a
widow woman named Zambia, having three kids and was facing these problems. The woman
met to Garry and telling him about her poverty how she suffered from these problems. She
was more worried about her younger kid because he was suffering from malnutrition. She
told to Garry how malnutrition is one of the major global problems that arise because of
poverty.
When Garry was in his graduation period, he was told that more than 40,000 children
died from poverty, but now this number is decreased to 17,000. He also added that how
people were dying from poverty and he further added that how 35 years ago, 50% of people
died from poverty and were living under very low income. However, these stats are decreased
to 15% in the present time where those 2 billion people who made $1.25, now make $2.00
(Haugen, 2015).
Garry also met a girl named Griselda who lives in Guatemala. She said that she was
unable to go to school and raped by people when she was walking from church to home. She
had all the opportunities to go to school but she was in fear and not feeling safe. Thus, he
added that any anti-poverty program cannot save people or slaves from poverty and it causes
their downfall in society. Poverty is the major cause of every problem related to education,
societal development, and discrimination among people.
My Opinion
I think the lack of education among people and social development is correlated with
the development of people. However, I think it is so horrible that the anti-poverty program
cannot fix the problem of poverty in society. It can be said that poverty causes a lack of
education and crimes in any community and that further leads to other social problems in
society. Rape, racism, and crime related to kidnapping, assassination, and murder of people