Global Stratification- A Socio

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in Southeast Asia spend their summer days in a factory for ten hours, making tennis shoes on insufficient food, and for few dollars a day. If you were to walk down the street in one of the world’s middle-income countries, like those in Eastern Europe, you would see signs of the (wealthy) Western nations all around. Teenagers would be sporting Levi’s and Nikes, stereos would be blasting music by the Spice Girls and the Beatles, and families would aspire to drive someday a Jeep into the driveway of their hovel. However, when you get back to their residence, the similarity to the West would end. Running water would not be safe to drink without going through a stringent filtering process, space in the cramped home would be at a premium, and the home itself may most likely be in decrepit shape. The striving for Western goods puts personal hygiene and safe, comfortable living space to the “back seat” in favor of displays of conspicuous consumption. The image that the high-income countries ...

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