Question

Write a 350-500-word essay discussing a current social injustice, and support your findings with an explanation of a reliable source you used during your investigation

Answer 1

Brazil is one of the biggest economies in the world. They possess a wide variety of natural resources and many private corporations are important participants on the global scene. Brazil's GDP per capita in 2016 was  $ 15,100. In other words, that is the amount of money the average Brazilian would earn in a year.

However, there is a weak correlation with the distribution of wealth, as one can see in their social progress index (SPI), which was 73.91 (the higher one gets to 100 is better) in 2016. This means that there is a greater accumulation of wealth within the minorities and the majority of Brazilian's don't actually earn the amount stated in the GDP per capita.

One can rapidly notice this, as Brazil has faced the social problem of "the fabellas" for many years. The fabellas are communities of people who live in the surroundings of big cities. They are characterized for being places where poor people live and widespread crime occurs.  

Answer 2

Social injustice occurs when people are not being treated equally in society, the reason for it may be related to some condition or state as belonging to a specific group. Some of the main problems regarding social injustice are linked to race or nationality; mental or physical ability; religion; age; gender or sexual orientation; education or class.

Most of the time social injustice will occur in enshrouded forms, but sometimes it is embraced and embodied in law and other public and private policies. As the law represent one society’s desires and beliefs it will often express the discriminatory beliefs of it as well.

The underline causes of social injustice are often baseless prejudice or old and outdated beliefs that tend to spread ideas in society which will influence how people treat others. Some basic ways which social injustice is shown is by discriminating others, this kind of attitude is one way of excluding people you do not agree with their choices, conditions or status and want to prevent them from being part of the society explicitly or implicitly. But more severe forms of social injustice appear as well in forms of persecution; violence; penalties and punishments which some of them are sometimes allowed by the law.

Currently all the main problems we listed above are still going on, some countries face more specific problems, while others reached a fairly state of social justice including policies and laws that prevented some forms of social injustice or violation of human’s rights regardless of race, gender, nationality or other issues.

But one important global issue at the moment regarding social injustice is the penalization of people that belong to LGBTI community to the point of taking their lives. In “A World Survey of Laws: criminalisation, protection and recognition of same-sex love, 2015” they collected legal information about criminalization and decriminalization of people around the world that have love affections for the same sex or suffer these because of gender identity. There you can see beside not having the right to marry, adopting children, or accessing specific jobs (as in United States Supreme Court on January, 24, 2018 gave a green light for the Trump Administration’s ban on transgender military service to take effect) some countries also allow people to beat up the LGBTI community, other send them for imprisonment or to pay a fine (Nigeria), while other sentence them to death because of their sexual choice (Mauritania).