Courtesy for Beginners: World's Biggest Problems

   1.     Racism           

a.     I think the number one problem we have in our country today is racism. It’s all over the news, allover social media, and all around us. So many cases regarding police brutality that are directly correlated with race are surfacing. We have Donald Trump and his supporters (I’m sure there are exceptions), expressing hate and anger towards people of different religions and skin color. We have Syrian refugees being denied asses to countries because of their race and origin. I don’t know the solution to any of these problem, but I know for a fact our futures aren’t going in a positive direction if all we express is hate towards one another. We are all human, and the only way we will ever be able to live in harmony and peace in this world is if we start embracing our differences, respecting one another, and promoting and expressing love towards each other.

2.     Minimum Wage

a.     This issue is affected by many forces and overlaps a lot of issues with our society and economy. But I agree some people don’t deserve to get paid more for simple jobs, but in the other hand you have college students trying to balance life and school and getting paid so little just makes life a whole lot harder. I think more regulations need to be in place in regards to what is considered a simple “anyone can do” job, and an easy skilled job. Why should a McDonald’s employee make just as much as a C.N.A? The answer is they shouldn’t, but currently they do. I believe they need to make the minimum wage higher but for only certain jobs, jobs that require skills and some level of education or technique.

3.     Immigration laws

a.     When people hear immigration I feel like they think Hispanics coming into the country and trying to find jobs. But what many need to realized is that there’s a whole world outside these boarders filled with different people from different countries who also want to come in to the United States. My roommate is one of the nicest girls I’ve ever meet, but she’s here on a student visa and her life is really hard. Legally she can only work on university property, but back to point number two, she doesn’t make enough money to live here. So as a result, she works at U.F and she has 3 other jobs all under the table where she gets paid very little, in cash and gets no benefits. She’s a brilliant hard working student who would be an asset to this country, and I find it so unfair that the U.S makes it so hard for students like her to prosper. Again I feel like in order to fix this our laws need more sharpening.

4.     Sexual inequality between men and women.

a.     When I talk about this I don’t just mean the wage gap between males and females, but just socially how women are viewed in today’s society. I find it so weird how people don’t realize they are being sexist. I got into an argument once with my boyfriend and his friends because they were praising one of their friends for having sex with some girl and then they has the audacity of calling the girl he screwed a slut for screwing him back. I brought their hypocrisy to their attention and they flat out told me it didn’t matter because he was a guy. Just how does that make any sense? This is a social problem. And if anything takes a long time to fix or change is people’s perceptions. Take gay marriage for example, homosexuality has been around for centuries, but just last year was it ok for individuals of the same sex to get married, and only about 20 or so years ago did it become ok for individuals to show the world that they liked people of the same sex. Till this day there is still a lot of prejudice toward the LGBT community. This society still needs to do a lot of growing.

5.     Social Disorder  

a.     I cannot imagine how it must feel for people who suffer from depression and anxiety. Feeling alone and worthless is one of the worst feelings in the world, and the sad thing is you don’t have to have a disorder to feel this way. Some people actually need help with conditions, diseases and disorders, but what everyone wants is just to be accepted for who they are. But here we are again, you would expect today’s society to be more open minded and accepting, but we aren’t. Instead it easier for us to express hateful opinions through social media. How do we fix this? With time and a lot of patience. I completely believe that children are our future, and my answer to difficult questions, like this, is that individuals of today’s generations need to teach kids how to be kind and accepting.

6.     Abandoned and abused animals.

a.     I am a dog lover and it breaks my heart when I see stray dogs or videos on social media or abused dogs. Dogs and animals in general have feelings and they are just such loving creatures, they don’t deserve to be treated with anything but love. And you are just a horrible person if you hurt an animal intentionally.

7.     Student loan debt.

a.     I hate that going to school is so expensive. Cause it’s not just tuition, its books, food, rent, gas and more. School should be more affordable or free. None the less lenders and the government should at least make interest rates lower, because I shouldn’t be paying off the interest to my loan for 5 years and then finally start to hit the money that I actually borrowed.

8.     How many homeless people there are in the U.S

a.     It absolutely breaks my heart to see so many people on the street. I personally believe that half of these people just need a little push in the right direction and some confidence. Something so small as a shower and a haircut are all thing we all take for granted, that would make such a difference in a homeless person’s life. And to even think that a lot of them are veterans, people that put their life on the line to give us our freedom and they don’t even have a bed to sleep on.

9.     Sexual education in the U.S

a.     Sexual education here is so bad, most schools that even have some type of sex ed just teach abstinence. Sex is a part of life and it shouldn’t be such a taboo topic to bring up in high schools. If the U.S had a decent sexual education program, teen pregnancy and abortion rates would plummet. Just look at some of our European neighbors. A solution to this would be to just offer comprehensive sexual education classes early on in student educational career. All social issues overlap, currently there has been numerous shootings on local parent parenthood because they offer abortions. If sexual education was strongly enforced upon students at an early age, unwanted pregnancy rates would fall, so the abortion rate would fall, and then protesters wouldn’t really have anything to protest about. This is just one of those things you need to start at the root of the problem and work your way up.

10.  Pollution

a.     This planet is what gives us life and in return we do little to nothing for it. We don’t even realize how much damage we are causing this planet. Such simple things like recycling could make such a difference. And if you’re that person that’s throwing your trash out the window or doesn’t pick up after themselves when you leave the beach, have fun trying to look for another planet to live in. 

    
Here are some typical google image of people of different races getting along