Fairness And Equality In Ecuador Essay, Research Paper
Fairness and Equality in Ecuador
Ecuador is small country in south America. is situated over
Per? and beneath Venezuela and Colombia. It?s population is
12.500.000. there are different ethnic groups in Ecuador,
there is mestizo (mixed Amerindian and Spanish) 55%,
Amerindian 25%, Spanish 10%, black 10% (-1-). The predominant
religion is Roman Catholicism. 90% of the population knows how
to read and write. Ecuador is also very rich in tradition and
it has been blessed with tons of natural resources and a
climate that allows us to grow and produce all year long
almost anything. The official language is Spanish but in Somme
places they also speak a mixture of Amerindian dialects
especially Quechua( most likely spoken by Indians ) . In
Ecuador like in most south American countries politics are
very corrupted. Ecuador is not very fair to every one in it?s
community because it doesn?t provide equal opportunity for
every one,Ecuador?s modern society unfair that you can almost
say that you are either born with or with out opportunity.
One of the most significant factors that affect equal
treatment is last names. Last names can be good or bad it just
depends WHAT your name is and what does it represent to
society. Last names have a history attached. To have a good
name means tons of thing, means you come from a family known
to every one because it?s been around in Ecuador at the least
for the last 200 years and always have been known to be
honest, all men and women were gentlemen or proper ladies,
hard working, table manners, politeness, noble, and most of
all it says that you can be trusted. While that person can be
the biggest thief in Ecuador?s history. A lot of the
politicians use their last names to project an image of truth
and honesty to the people just so they can get a vote. A lot
of people rely on names for a lot of things, the difference
between having a good name or a bad one can affect you from
the most insignificant way to a way that could mean set back
in some of your lives goals. On one hand a insignificant
example is when you are a teenager and you want to go out with
some one whose last name is unknown or worse a bad name there
is no possible way you are going to be bale to go out with
that person if you are under 15. Another example when you are
really young. You can?t go to some one?s party if that person
has a bad name or if its last name is unknown, your parents
would give two reson for it. The one reson I agree with is
this one that actually makes sense that (parent would say) ?we
don?t know that family and we don?t know what rules or customs
do they have? it?s understandable I wouldn?t trust my kids to
a stranger so why trust them to an stranger family we don?t
know about or even herd of them. On the other hand a much more
difficult situation could pop up in your carrier, names in
Ecuador can influence a lot when it come to landing jobs. For
instance. Will just assume that Cate is one of most respected
names in Ecuador and that person has applied to exactly the
same job that a person whose name is Lopez that we assume is
not known by sociaty. First of all the one with the good name
is going to get the interview first and treated better, as the
employer goes over their resumes he notices names and tries to
identify if he knows someone with that name, he has identified
Cate because is known in Ecuador that the cate family comes
from a old honest hard working family where as the name Lopez
is just one more in the list. They both graduated from
Princeton University, they both got their MBA?s in U PENN?s
Wharton Business School and they have had a work experience in
different but equally important banks in the United States.
Either for pressure from higher managers, friends family or
society it self Cate is going to get the job because a good
name in Ecuador is name you can trust.
A Bad last name is some thing that you could be born
with two. A bad last name may have just the same weigh in
society as a good with the difference that a bad name only
produces negative effects on their daily lives. Bad last names
as well also carry a history attached to them. They are
supposedly known for the exact opposite of a good name, they
are very corrupt, dishonest, gri
no manners, no table manners, and because of this it becomes a
icon that automatically means bad. An example for being born
with a bad name are the Persian emigrants that came in
colonies around the 1800?s Persian are well known all over the
world for having a gut fell and skills for commerce. Because
there where so many business men from Persian backgrounds or
family not all of them could have been honest so there were a
few crocks and cheaters in commerce from Persian background
and over the years the Persians were characterized as crocks
and thieves by all of society in Ecuador. Another reson of
why Persian descendent last names are not good names is
because there have been a lot of corrupt Persian politicians
along Ecuador?s government history so besides their history in
beeign in the past crock they come and reinforce it with the
bad egoistic governments we have obtained from Persian
politicians.
In Ecuador un fairness doesn?t just come from good or
bad last names but also from race and regionalism. For a lot
of people RACE is another big factor when it comes to
fairness. Ecuador is mostly meztisos which are a mixture of
amerindians and Spanish that constitute 50 percent of
population, the Amerindians continued 25 percent and black and
Spanish 10 and 10 percent respectively. the ones who are
affected this mistreatment are he blaks and the amerindindians
continuing the 35 percent of population. In Ecuador there are
two big cities one is Guayaquil that from where I come from
and the other is the capital Quito in both of the cities there
is a lot of racial segregation for balks and amerindians. WHY?
because they do no live in cities blaks and amerindians live
often in small towns for example most blaks live by the coast
in cities like Esmeraldas and Manabi working as farm employes
or working in low pay jobs because they are nit well educated
and because their are known not to be well educated. The same
thing happens with amerindians they mostly live in the
highlands and also work underpaid because they are not well
educated, thus wen they go to the big cities for jobs even if
they have been well educated often they will reject blaks or
amerindians because they will often think they are not capable
of doing a job or smart enough to do the job right.
Regionalism is another kind of unfairness that happens a
lot in Ecuador. The country is divided into provinces esch
wich a capital city and all over the contry there are taxes
for purchesing and millions of things that produces a lot of
money. All of the money goes to the capital in order to be
re-emanated to provinces for them to manage. But insted
corruption is so high and shameless that the money dosent even
come out representavives from the provinces have to go to
capital beging for the money they own them in order for poor
towns and cities to survive in the corrupting economy we live
every day.
Economic and social status are other big factors in fair
treatment in Ecuador. By having a high economic and social
status what is implied? Power, power is implied. People with
money or high positions in sociaty are treated differently
than the people who don?t have money or a satand in sociaty.
people with out any kind of influences are more likely to go
to jail and have longer senteces where as people with
influences get out trouble by paying some cash or pulling
some strings. People should be cuted by the same knife and
acording to the law. There is just one law and one for all,
not one for the rich and another for the poor, or one for
whites and another for blaks.
In conclution i would like to incourage upon yung people
who in their hand is the future of our sociaties health that
no matter the color of the skin, the city nor region that we
live in, how much money our how well known we are, that we
should all learn our differences, accept them, treat and be
treated the same way everybody is in order to live in more
plasent place were people no matter their conditions have the
same opportunity to succed in their lives as everybody else.
Bibliography:
(-1-) All kinds of population data
where fund at www.ecuador.com
Bibliography
(-1-) All kinds of population data
where fund at www.ecuador.com