Poverty And Disabilities

Exclusion By Poverty And Disabilities
By Aaron Schwartz

Traditionally, human society is considered to be one of the most developed forms of self-organization of alive beings but, unfortunately, very often it may be a very cruel and evil. It seems to be strange but, probably, the most severe people are in relation to outcasts of the society among which we can find those who differ from others by their social position, material wealth or even by poor condition of health. In other words, poor or handicapped people may be thrown beyond margins of the social group. I think such inhuman relation is not acceptable, especially for so developed people as are the people of the 21st c.

Unfortunately, nowadays material or physical disability is still an object of discriminating attitude. Though we can?™t say that only our epoch is so cruel and indifferent to the fate of such people. Long human history approves that poor and handicapped people were always oppressed and condemned to sufferings and violation of their rights because they were and still are the weakest and the least protected part of the society. Actually, it is not surprising that since earliest ages people respected two things force and power, given by wealth. For poor and disabled are deprived both of them they logically remain in the lower part of a social structure. From the very beginning such people do not have the same opportunities to realize their abilities as people of middle or upper classes and very often, especially in less developed country than the USA or Europe a physical trauma and following disability to work mean death or at least pathetic existence. Thus, for many people physical disability and poverty are synonymous notions.