How Can Poverty Be Eradicated in Minority Groups Through Sustainable Culture?This paper’s focus should examine a socio-cultural issue within the cultural sustainability framework that you feel requires immediate attention. As you continue to do your research, you should examine what informs this social issue/problem, what work has been done to resolve it, and what is the BEST solution to this problem (your thesis). Read All information and do a research
Tentative Topic & Research Question
Poverty Eradication: How Can Poverty Be Eradicated in Minority Groups Through Sustainable Culture?
Introduction
Cultural sustainability relates to efforts made to preserve beliefs, art, and the ways of a community to create social or economic sustenance (Huhmarniemi, Maria, et al. 604). In this paper, we will look at ways to eradicate poverty through sustainable culture. Sustenance is accomplished by exploring the following tentative ideas. First, can poverty be eradicated using favorable government policy? Second, how can poverty be alleviated using cultural capital? Finally, how will reducing working hours in unsustainable industries help in poverty reduction?
Literature Review
Poverty eradication is one of the U.N.’s goals towards a sustainable future. However, this has been faced with numerous challenges, especially in ethnic minority groups. Governments can play a big role in reducing poverty among minorities by creating favorable policies. For example, a government can incentivize youth to create art and sell it to tourists. Governments can also give tax breaks to people participating in cultural activities that are financially viable (Huhmarniemi, Maria, et al. 604). Creating such initiatives would encourage people to move towards sustainability since it would be economically rewarding. The economic aspect of such a culture would then reduce poverty in the community.
Minority groups can also create economic sustainability using a culture already there in the community. For example, the Maasai people of Kenya, a marginalized minority, have been using their traditional dances to attract tourists worldwide (Sharp, Jennifer, et al. N.A.). The tourist then brings money to the community by paying to see the dances and buying artifacts created by the people in the community.
Economic sustainability has increased in the community since they no longer have to rely on livestock farming which can be unreliable in drought and disease outbreaks. The challenges faced by such incentives are largely from a lack of exposure to the world. Sometimes, communities might have economically viable cultural activities, but they might be hard to execute because poor communities cannot advertise their culture thus fail to attract tourists.
One of the tentative ideas that have not gained widespread use is reducing working hours in unsustainable industries to increase creative time among employees from poor communities. This idea accounts for economic and human activities that consume nonrenewable resources and cannot continue without dire environmental implications. Working fewer hours has been proven to reduce pollution from factories and cars, decrease desire for material things and improve the health of a community.
A healthy community would then have the time and energy to enhance its culture and make it financially viable. The biggest challenge in implementing this idea is that the reduction in working hours in the disadvantaged minority would lead to loss of income that they rely on to survive. However, governments can counter this by creating incentives that compensate people for the money lost due to reducing environmentally harmful activities.
Poverty eradication is one of the U.N.’s goals towards a sustainable future. However, this has been faced with numerous challenges, especially in ethnic minority groups. Lack of favorable government policy is the greatest challenge in poverty eradication. Governments should help poor communities by making their culture visible to tourists through advertising. Companies should also encourage their employees to participate in economically sustainable cultures to supplement salaries, thus reducing poverty. From the Maasai example, we can conclude that the strategies mentioned above can succeed given a favorable environment (Sharp, Jennifer, et al. N.A.).
Works Cited
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Sharp, Jennifer, and Laangakwa Twati. “Documentation of Maasai culture.” (2017).
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Poverty Reduction among Minority Groups
Introduction
Poverty reduction is one of the sustainable development goals established by The UN as a strategic plan in minimizing poverty among minority groups, communities, and gender.
Background Information
Many minority groups face significant exposure to poverty and lack of economic resources limiting their integrated participation in developmental initiatives.
The continued exposure to unequal institutional policies, biases, systemic racial segregation, gender-biased programs, and lack of funding for minorities in the history of humankind worsened the effects of poverty on marginalized groups.
Many people of color, marginalized groups, women, people living with disability, the youth, and population minority suffer sufficient exposure to poverty.
Stance
Minority groups suffer increased discrimination, marginalization, and poverty levels that inhibit sustainable development initiatives. Such requires the adoption of sustainable poverty eradication measures among minority groups.
Establishing Context
Causes of the problem
Institutional biases
Gender, racial, or ethnic discriminations
Unfavorable government policies and funding for development initiatives
Insufficient access to safe, clean water and sanitation facilities
Inequalities and lack of education
Conflicts
Lack of employment opportunities.
Effects of the problem
Lower economic development
Increased malnutrition and suffering
Poor health care services
increased maternal deaths.
Poor access to education education
increased illiteracy levels.
Development of criminal activities
Solutions to the Problem
Increased institutional and systematic reduction in discrimination
Increased participation of all groups in development initiatives
Adoption of sustainable methods in poverty reduction
Provision of sustainable employment and economic programs for minority groups
Adoption of favorable policies to support minority initiatives and programs of reducing poverty levels.
Adoption of gender-sensitive rules.
Conclusion
Poverty alleviation and reduction require extensive use of sustainable methods and techniques.
Minority groups have experienced significant periods of increased poverty due to institutional biases, unfavorable government policies, insufficient funding, and discrimination in various sectors.
Such has exposed them to suffering, illiteracy, malnutrition, diseases, increased criminal activities, conflicts, and poor access to water and sanitation.
It requires the adoption of favorable government policies, sustainable development economic opportunity, increased access to employment activities, education, and adoption of gender rules.
May results in reduced development, heightening of criminal activities and conflicts, and retrogressive cultural practices.
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