Fairness And Equality In Ecuador Essay, Research Paper

Fairness and Equality in Ecuador

Ecuador is small country in south America. is situated over

Per? and beneath Venezuela and Colombia. It?s population is

12.500.000. there are different ethnic groups in Ecuador,

there is mestizo (mixed Amerindian and Spanish) 55%,

Amerindian 25%, Spanish 10%, black 10% (-1-). The predominant

religion is Roman Catholicism. 90% of the population knows how

to read and write. Ecuador is also very rich in tradition and

it has been blessed with tons of natural resources and a

climate that allows us to grow and produce all year long

almost anything. The official language is Spanish but in Somme

places they also speak a mixture of Amerindian dialects

especially Quechua( most likely spoken by Indians ) . In

Ecuador like in most south American countries politics are

very corrupted. Ecuador is not very fair to every one in it?s

community because it doesn?t provide equal opportunity for

every one,Ecuador?s modern society unfair that you can almost

say that you are either born with or with out opportunity.

One of the most significant factors that affect equal

treatment is last names. Last names can be good or bad it just

depends WHAT your name is and what does it represent to

society. Last names have a history attached. To have a good

name means tons of thing, means you come from a family known

to every one because it?s been around in Ecuador at the least

for the last 200 years and always have been known to be

honest, all men and women were gentlemen or proper ladies,

hard working, table manners, politeness, noble, and most of

all it says that you can be trusted. While that person can be

the biggest thief in Ecuador?s history. A lot of the

politicians use their last names to project an image of truth

and honesty to the people just so they can get a vote. A lot

of people rely on names for a lot of things, the difference

between having a good name or a bad one can affect you from

the most insignificant way to a way that could mean set back

in some of your lives goals. On one hand a insignificant

example is when you are a teenager and you want to go out with

some one whose last name is unknown or worse a bad name there

is no possible way you are going to be bale to go out with

that person if you are under 15. Another example when you are

really young. You can?t go to some one?s party if that person

has a bad name or if its last name is unknown, your parents

would give two reson for it. The one reson I agree with is

this one that actually makes sense that (parent would say) ?we

don?t know that family and we don?t know what rules or customs

do they have? it?s understandable I wouldn?t trust my kids to

a stranger so why trust them to an stranger family we don?t

know about or even herd of them. On the other hand a much more

difficult situation could pop up in your carrier, names in

Ecuador can influence a lot when it come to landing jobs. For

instance. Will just assume that Cate is one of most respected

names in Ecuador and that person has applied to exactly the

same job that a person whose name is Lopez that we assume is

not known by sociaty. First of all the one with the good name

is going to get the interview first and treated better, as the

employer goes over their resumes he notices names and tries to

identify if he knows someone with that name, he has identified

Cate because is known in Ecuador that the cate family comes

from a old honest hard working family where as the name Lopez

is just one more in the list. They both graduated from

Princeton University, they both got their MBA?s in U PENN?s

Wharton Business School and they have had a work experience in

different but equally important banks in the United States.

Either for pressure from higher managers, friends family or

society it self Cate is going to get the job because a good

name in Ecuador is name you can trust.

A Bad last name is some thing that you could be born

with two. A bad last name may have just the same weigh in

society as a good with the difference that a bad name only

produces negative effects on their daily lives. Bad last names

as well also carry a history attached to them. They are

supposedly known for the exact opposite of a good name, they

are very corrupt, dishonest, gritty, cheaters, no politeness,

no manners, no table manners, and because of this it becomes a

icon that automatically means bad. An example for being born

with a bad name are the Persian emigrants that came in

colonies around the 1800?s Persian are well known all over the

world for having a gut fell and skills for commerce. Because

there where so many business men from Persian backgrounds or

family not all of them could have been honest so there were a

few crocks and cheaters in commerce from Persian background

and over the years the Persians were characterized as crocks

and thieves by all of society in Ecuador. Another reson of

why Persian descendent last names are not good names is

because there have been a lot of corrupt Persian politicians

along Ecuador?s government history so besides their history in

beeign in the past crock they come and reinforce it with the

bad egoistic governments we have obtained from Persian

politicians.

In Ecuador un fairness doesn?t just come from good or

bad last names but also from race and regionalism. For a lot

of people RACE is another big factor when it comes to

fairness. Ecuador is mostly meztisos which are a mixture of

amerindians and Spanish that constitute 50 percent of

population, the Amerindians continued 25 percent and black and

Spanish 10 and 10 percent respectively. the ones who are

affected this mistreatment are he blaks and the amerindindians

continuing the 35 percent of population. In Ecuador there are

two big cities one is Guayaquil that from where I come from

and the other is the capital Quito in both of the cities there

is a lot of racial segregation for balks and amerindians. WHY?

because they do no live in cities blaks and amerindians live

often in small towns for example most blaks live by the coast

in cities like Esmeraldas and Manabi working as farm employes

or working in low pay jobs because they are nit well educated

and because their are known not to be well educated. The same

thing happens with amerindians they mostly live in the

highlands and also work underpaid because they are not well

educated, thus wen they go to the big cities for jobs even if

they have been well educated often they will reject blaks or

amerindians because they will often think they are not capable

of doing a job or smart enough to do the job right.

Regionalism is another kind of unfairness that happens a

lot in Ecuador. The country is divided into provinces esch

wich a capital city and all over the contry there are taxes

for purchesing and millions of things that produces a lot of

money. All of the money goes to the capital in order to be

re-emanated to provinces for them to manage. But insted

corruption is so high and shameless that the money dosent even

come out representavives from the provinces have to go to

capital beging for the money they own them in order for poor

towns and cities to survive in the corrupting economy we live

every day.

Economic and social status are other big factors in fair

treatment in Ecuador. By having a high economic and social

status what is implied? Power, power is implied. People with

money or high positions in sociaty are treated differently

than the people who don?t have money or a satand in sociaty.

people with out any kind of influences are more likely to go

to jail and have longer senteces where as people with

influences get out trouble by paying some cash or pulling

some strings. People should be cuted by the same knife and

acording to the law. There is just one law and one for all,

not one for the rich and another for the poor, or one for

whites and another for blaks.

In conclution i would like to incourage upon yung people

who in their hand is the future of our sociaties health that

no matter the color of the skin, the city nor region that we

live in, how much money our how well known we are, that we

should all learn our differences, accept them, treat and be

treated the same way everybody is in order to live in more

plasent place were people no matter their conditions have the

same opportunity to succed in their lives as everybody else.

Bibliography:

(-1-) All kinds of population data

where fund at www.ecuador.com

Bibliography

(-1-) All kinds of population data

where fund at www.ecuador.com