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What is the human experience? It could mean something different for everybody. To me the human experience is the experience of being human. Going through life with all its emotions and problems. Not every person goes through the same problems, but everyone goes through the same emotions as a reaction to their problems or everyday lives. So the answer to the question is yes, the human experience, no matter where you live, is relatively the same. Every person experiences emotions of happiness, sadness, anger, love, hope, stress, and fear. What causes those emotions can be different for each person. Examples of this are the human rights violations of Burma, India, Sudan, and Cuba. The violation in Burma is with the illegal use of child soldiers. Child soldiers are children from the ages of five to eighteen that are forced to serve in the army. Once recruited the children are forced to go through hard physical labor and beatings. For many of them they have seen war and fought in it, using violent weapons. The children are exposed to violence and have no access to an education. The Violation in India affects around 165 million people. These people are called Dalits, or “broken people” are at the very bottom of the Caste system. The Dalits are also known as the untouchables, because they are thought to pollute members of the higher castes. Due to the idea of polluting, the Dalits are not able to be in public places with them or come in any type of contact with them, even having their shadow touch you means your polluted. The Dalits are forced to live away from the rest of society in slums, or house made out of garbage or other scraps. They are made to do the most degrading jobs, such as sewage cleaners. The younger girls are sometimes forced to become prostitutes to earn more money. Members of the higher varnas will buy them for the night; untouchabillity means nothing when it comes to sex. The Dalits are treated with no respects and little to no rights. The situation in Sudan has caused 2,500,000 people to be displaced and hundreds of people to die each day. This is because of the genocide in Darfur. The genocide killings hurt so many people, with losing everything they once had. 97% of the killings are on innocent people. The government there isn’t doing much to stop it, so many other countries are trying to help the people. The last example is the violations of human rights in Cuba. For many years the dictator Fidel Castro, and recently his brother Raul Castro have controlled the government. Since taking over the law of “ dangerousness” has come to play. This law makes peaceful protesters go to jail, because they government sees them as dangerous. The prisons there are horrible, with poor sanitation, vermin, and over crowdedness. The reason the people are protesting is because the government doesn’t give them any rights. The problems affect all people, and each country has there own problems. The problems are all different but the experiences are the same for everyone. Every person goes through some type of problem, which causes certain emotions. All of those problems cause the emotions of sadness, anger, pain, and hope. All humans might not go through the same problems, but we all have similar ones, that cause us the same emotions and reactions. The human experience, no matter where you live is relatively the same.