Yeah, actually it does exist. In other parts of the world, especially the developing regions, slavery still affects many lives, more than I think most of us can imagine. Don't get me wrong though. It happens in the U.S. too. Ha, you probably thought the Civil War all those years ago was the end of it. Not true. In fact, in all of human history, it is now that we have the most slaves.
Just google it. Slaves today aren't in situations too different from those long ago. They're put through forced, hard labor and mental, physical and emotional abuse with little or no pay at all. Specifically in the U.S., most slaves are domestic or sex slaves, and a significant number of them are very young. I think the only real differences between slavery then and now is the curtain modern society provides to the overwhelming majority of us from this, the culture (of not having ownership of a slave to be normal and morally correct) and the race factor that is not incorporated.
Another form of modern day slavery, that's not too obvious, but still, in my opinion, slavery, is our parents' control of our lives. I feel their presence in our lives is pretty forceful sometimes. But that's more of a personal thing, a story for another time :)
About the parent thing, I think it really depends on the parent.
ReplyDelete↑↑i agree, depends on the parent↑ some let their kids do whatever. You're right though,there are many forms of slavery,and i shall google it. :>
ReplyDeleteyeah, it does. im just using it as an example because thats the way i feel about my parents a lot of the time and im sure im not the only one. :)
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