Let Them Do It Themselves
Many people throughout the world live in some of the harshest, most despicable living conditions on the earth. Whole countries may have less than a few thousand people that actually live in real houses and eat real amounts of food. Countries like Somalia depend a large amount on whether or not people find it in their heart to donate food, money and clothes to them. There are places like that within our own country, which are the focus of The Promised Land, by Nicholas Lemann. These places are called ghettos. These two scenarios are completely different, despite the fact that Lemann seems to classify them as being the same. Although he doesn’t outright say this, he writes as if we as Americans should feel the same way about ghettos as we would about any other poor living conditions. This is shown when he states, “The black poor that live in ghettos are among the most poor in the world and ghettos are among the worst places in the world to live.” (p 353). I have a problem with this. Though some may disagree, I feel as though Lemann actually puts people living in ghettos in the same category as those in poverty stricken countries. People who live in poverty-stricken countries live in that condition because for them ther
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Approximate Word count = 1561
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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