Event Title
2011 South South Forum on Sustainability
Start Date
13-12-2011 3:45 PM
End Date
13-12-2011 5:30 PM
Language
English
Description
I am part of the despairing middle class in Mexico, a generation of young people who went to private schools, who went to college, who speak English, live on their own and have a job. I am part of a minority, and even that seems exaggerating, only around of 17% of the total population actually gets in to a college in Mexico. And I say despairing because the crisis is fast finishing with this middle class social stratus
There has been awareness about the crisis for some years now, but poverty has always been a part of Mexico’s reality. I grew up in Chiapas, the poorest state in the country. Kids without shoes, begging for money was an everyday event something that was just there, not necessarily as part of a big economical failure, but as part of the country’s reality itself.
Document Type
Conference
Recommended Citation
Santana, A. O. (2011, December). Livelihood and living for the youth in Latin America = 拉丁美洲青年人的人生與生活. Paper presented at 2011 South South Forum on Sustainability, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
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Livelihood and living for the youth in Latin America = 拉丁美洲青年人的人生與生活
I am part of the despairing middle class in Mexico, a generation of young people who went to private schools, who went to college, who speak English, live on their own and have a job. I am part of a minority, and even that seems exaggerating, only around of 17% of the total population actually gets in to a college in Mexico. And I say despairing because the crisis is fast finishing with this middle class social stratus
There has been awareness about the crisis for some years now, but poverty has always been a part of Mexico’s reality. I grew up in Chiapas, the poorest state in the country. Kids without shoes, begging for money was an everyday event something that was just there, not necessarily as part of a big economical failure, but as part of the country’s reality itself.