Or will the old, white men maintain a class monopoly forever?
2006-09-09 02:25:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Hi and thank you for such a good question. I am not as smart as you must be about all this but I want to speak up for your vision. I don't think our representatives represent the people. I think they represent money, the ones who have it and want to keep it. Poor people like me don't see ourselves in the government. The politicians think we are dumb and they can control us. I think the time has come for us to try something new in this country for a change: real democracy where the people govern themselves and where there is enough for us all to share.
2006-09-09 02:34:36 · answer #1 · answered by Isis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that people are scattered about and ethnic minorities are not concentrated enough for their views to brought out. Only in a few places are there enough Orientals to make a difference but they are outweighed by the white majority and even with the various 'white' people, there are not enough Finns, or Latvians, or Swiss to have a voice, so how can representation take place. But you do mistake representation as reflecting ethnic ideals however, it reflects business interests. It seems that we lost the ability to make representation reflect our political or national interests a long time ago as we can not change or influence decisions made in state capitals or in Washington.
2006-09-09 02:38:42 · answer #2 · answered by Frank 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The folks who represent our country are voted into that position. We must vote differently to bring about change when change is due. We do live in a hugely diverse country with so many different peoples, nations and tongues. We ARE the big melting pot of the world!
2006-09-09 02:47:02 · answer #3 · answered by Delta Charlie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope. If we had proportional representation in legislature maybe. Like if eight percent of the citizenry voted Green party and Green party would get eight out of 100 senate seats, or if 19 percent libertarian, but that would definitely make it harder to pursue the "free market" agenda, so that ain't gonna happen.
2006-09-09 06:40:07 · answer #4 · answered by Maitreyi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
America's blacks are already overly represented ...
2006-09-09 02:31:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋