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=Human Rights=



India Iran DRC China

The statement, “The human experience is relatively the same, no matter where you live” is false. From just doing human rights I found that this statement is false. If you live in a country like the Democratic Republic of Congo your human experience as a child would be much more violent, harder, and you would grow up much faster from the experiences you would have compared to a country like the United States. Kids in the Democratic Republic of Congo are forced to kill people and other terrible acts. This changes their childhood completely. A child in a country like the United States usually have a good childhood and the worst thing they have to worry about is their school work. Another example to show that the statement is false is in China people cannot speak freely about some things. In a lot of countries if someone doesn’t agree with what the government is doing they can protest peacefully. In China if people try to protest anything that the government is doing they could be put in jail. So if you live in China your human experience would be much different compared to living in a country where everybody have freedom of speech and expression. A third example is if you are born as a Dalit in India you do extremely hard work for little money, everybody avoids you, and you cannot improve your status. If you live in a country that doesn’t have castes your human experience would be much different. Some countries you might be born into a poor family, but most of the time you have the opportunity to move up. As a Dalit you do not have that opportunity. Living at the lowest place of a country’s social status your entire life would obviously change your human experience. If you lived in a country that didn’t have these castes it would be completely different. A final example is a woman living in Iran does not have the same human experience as a woman living in a country that does not have a problem with women’s rights. Women living in Iran are treated very poorly. They are not able to vote and, the people that come into power are voted in by men. Since the leaders are voted in by men and are men the women’s rights issues are not being solved. Women in Iran have many human rights taken from them. Women in most other countries have most of their rights still. The human experience obviously would be a lot worse for a woman living in Iran or another country with women’s rights versus a country that doesn’t have issues with women’s rights. To sum it up the statement, “The human experience, no matter where you live, is relatively the same” is false. I have given four examples of situations in which the human experience would be different on where you live. These examples are only of human rights as well. There are many other situations in which the country you live affects the human experience.