Why do you think the United States is characterized by more inequality....?

Question

and fewer public efforts to reduce inequality than almost all developed nations?

Answer 1

Because it tries to please everybody as groups instead of as a nation.

Answer 2

America splits us all into groups no matter what we ask for. If every race and nationality living in the US wanted the exact same thing for once, we would still all get different treatment. There is a pressure to split people into corresponding groups, and while it can still in a sense be considered racism, it happens. We split colleges into black and white. I'm not saying discrimination, I'm just saying that why should we have an all black college? Why an all girl college? And why NOT an all hispanic college?

The problem with the US is that they have a need to split us into groups, no matter if we all have the same voice.

Answer 3

Capitalism. By it's very nature must have social stratification and inequality. Winners and losers. Haves and and have nots. Owners and workers. As more power get concentrated toward the top it's easier for the powerful to stay in power if they define and keep people in their place. Until it gets unbearable and then a power shift occurs and it all starts over again. In the U.S. the power is concentrated in corporations and business.

Other developed countries tend more toward socialism where the government holds more power and governments are harder to overthrow and tend to be more responsive to the lower social classes...keeping the power shift in check...therefore there is less of an advantage for inequality. If people are treated with equality they are less likely to want to overthrow the government in power.

Answer 4

Because no one knows how to work together. Everyone has to have their own group. During the Abolitionist movement - the whites helped the blacks, the suffragists helped the slaves and then the blacks joined the suffragists. Nowadays everyone has to have their own group - take religion - Catholic or Protestant, then it's Presbyterian or Baptist, then black or white? Minorities all want a say and they all are looking for equality, but the minorities divide themselves instead of standing together. There is plenty of public effort going around but in little groups instead of as a unit. Millions of ants work together everyday to run their colonies, but few people pay attention- but if all the insects began to join ranks people would begin to take notice. People need to help each other. White women move above the glass ceiling and take the minority women with you. African Americans work to set history straight, but aid the Native Americans in their endeavors too - they have it worse than you. Hispanics work to have your voices heard, but help those with smaller numbers achieve the same things - work with the Asians, the Irish and the Lost Boys of Sudan. Build this country together instead of tearing it apart seperately!

Answer 5

Because the US is based on capitalism. The haves and the have-nots. And if everyone was equal, then that system would be shot and the present elites would no longer have the power and prestige. This country (however not right or wrong) is all based on the idea that some people will have it and some people won't.

Answer 6

United States is characterized because the president(BUSH) is terrorist...

Answer 7

It is more unfair to men because the government is terrified of feminists.

Answer 8

Your authority and justification for this statement?

Answer 9

because of the aclu, the supreme court and ******** lawyers