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Human Rights South Africa China Argentina India

I do not believe that the human experience is the same everywhere you go. I think in every country and every different culture the experience is different. We have studied many countries and cultures in this class and they were all different. I studied human rights and in all countries they are different. The first country I will talk about is china and there human experience through human rights. The second is Argentina. The third is India and the last will be South Africa.

The first country is China. The human experience in America is completely different from that in China. In China, the government is a communist government. The government controls mostly everything in the country. They also don’t have the same rights as we do. The government Controls the economy and the environment. They do not have freedom of speech. This would drastically change the human experience in the country. In China they censor the internet. In china Laws clearly prohibit the spread of information that contains content subverting state power, undermining national unity infringing upon national honor and interests. . You can’t spread information that is bad about china’s government or undermines them.

The second country I studied is Argentina. From 1976 to 1983 Argentina had a dirty war. This was a war of state sponsored violence. It is estimated that over 13,000 people disappeared during this war. Thousands of women who were arrested and pregnant had their children taken and given to military personnel to raise. During this time much human rights were violated and the human experience would have been much different than it is now. You would have been in constant fear that you would be either kidnapped or killed by the government. The human experience changes everywhere you go.

The third country is India. In this country there are social castes. Each caste is given to you by birth. The lowest social caste is the Dalit’s or “the untouchables”. This social caste is condemned to do the worst jobs and is beaten and tortured just because they are the lowest caste. The human experience would change in this situation. The upper castes see the Dalit’s as inferior and not even human beings. They are forced to do the worst jobs that no one else wants to do. The human experience would be bad in this situation.

The last country I will talk about that relates to the human experience is South Africa. This human experience is drastically different than in any other country. South Africa was once under apartheid. This meant all the blacks in the country were segregated. They had black only bathrooms, black only restaurants and they had to carry a passbook everywhere they went. They then were put into ghettos where only blacks lived. They could only go to work at specific times and leave the ghetto when they went to work. So all of these countries human experiences are different form one other meaning that all human experiences are not the same.