When the we see the liberal discourse of aiding other impoverished nations int he Third World, we should not forget the Third World which exists in the prison house of nations that is the United States. National oppression in the US has created de-facto apartheid; internal colonies to be super-exploited. This is both in the labor force where we are under paid, as well as being locked out of the formal economy and funneled into concentration camps (the prison industrial complex). ~ Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee _____________________________________ A global study of adolescents from low-income neighborhoods revealed that teenagers from Baltimore, a city located just 40 miles from the US capital, are faring worse than their counterparts in Nigeria. Many people tend to associate child poverty with desperate scenes out of Africa or India. But according to a recent WAVE study, an international survey that examined the living conditions of 15-19 year olds in poor areas in Baltimore, Shanghai, Johannesburg, New Delhi and Ibadan (third largest city in Nigeria), the problem is much closer to home than many people realize. In the five neighborhoods examined in the study, poverty was the common thread that linked these culturally diverse locations. Differences among the teens in these urban areas became obvious, however, when it came to how they perceived their state of well-being. Teens from Baltimore and Johannesburg, South Africa, viewed their communities more negatively than the other locations in the study. The two cities showed the lowest number of teenagers who felt safe in their neighborhoods (percentages ranged from 43.9 percent among males in Johannesburg to 66.1 percent of females in Baltimore), as well as the highest averages for witnessing violence (8.9 percent for males and 7.0 percent among females in Johannesburg; 7.0 percent among males and 6.3 percent among females in Baltimore).
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