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The human experience, no matter where you live, is relatively the same, is not valid statement at all. The above countries have major human rights issues such as racism, torture, restrictions of freedom of speech, persecution of religious minorities, exploitation, and abuse. These things occur in a lot of places in the world. It is true that you could probably find serious human rights issues no matter where you go. Or run into one or another of these issues in your lifetime, however it is not the same everywhere. I live in the United States and I have never had any experience with any of these human rights issues that are a part of the everyday lives of other teenagers living in other parts of the world. Our experiences are definitely unique.

The Apartheid was a legal system of racial separation. Families were often split up and people were forced from their homes. This affected the lives of so many people. However it is not the same for everyone. Although some people in the U.S. may experience racism, they probably experience it in a different way than someone suffering from the Apartheid. Living in the United States, their family probably wasn’t split up, and they probably were not forcibly removed from their home.

The Untouchables live in India and are discriminated against because they are so low in the social order that they are not even considered a part of the caste system. They are considered to be spiritually impure, people refuse to speak to or touch them. A teenager living in the United States, or Europe, or other places in the world would probably never go through something like this. I know that I have no idea what it would feel like to be treated like that. Someone living in the U.S. would have a very different human experience than someone living in India as an Untouchable. Sometimes people in the United States are discriminated against, because of the way that they look, talk, or act. However they would never go through the extreme sufferings that the Untouchables do. They may be discriminated against as well, but in a different way. As an American teen I cannot even begin to imagine what something like that would feel like. My human experience is different.

In Iran people have restrictions on their freedom of speech, religious minorities are persecuted, and people are torture, exploited, abused, and discriminated against. All of it is legal so they can’t even do anything about it. This is a very different experience than someone who lives in England would get. They would never experience these things. A person living in England would have no idea what it feels like to be tortured because of your beliefs, or told that there are certain things that you cannot write about. The human experiences are very different in different location.

In China they have problems with freedom of speech, for example, the Tienanmen Square Incident. if someone in the United States were to protest like that there is no way that the government would just slaughter them like that and then just deny the whole thing. As a student in the United States you would have a very different experience than a student living in China.

All in all, the human experience, no matter where you live, is relatively the same, is not a valid statement at all. The human experience is different everywhere. A person in South American may have a very different life and experience than someone living in China or Iran. A person living in the United States might have a very different experience than someone living in South America. It depend on the location, the time period, the people around you, your race, your religion, everything. Every human being is very different from another and has their own unique experience as a human.