Humanities, about American neighborhood problems.

The United States is the only economic, technological and military superpower in the world. In the eight years since Clinton took office, the American economy has continued to climb, with an average annual growth rate of 3.5%, per capita consumption level rising by 36%, creating nearly 35 million jobs, and the average income of Americans ranks among the top in the world. In the United States for more than a month, wherever I went, I saw that the material life in the United States was very rich. But we also see another scene behind the prosperity, that is, the problems of American society, of which two are the most impressive. First of all, the disparity between the rich and the poor. In the richest country in the world, people can see dirty tramps begging on the streets of any city. We saw beggars in the streets (see photo), subway stations and busy traffic intersections in Chinatown, New York. The number of homeless people in new york is increasing year by year. 65438+ 10/9 in the early morning, the police arrested 125 people and sent them to the shelter. In the port area of Baltimore, a tramp wearing thin clothes and a broken felt under his ass sat in the ice and snow begging from pedestrians. On the heating pipe in front of the White House, we saw a tramp sitting in a steaming vent to keep warm, just like riding on a cloud. However, beggars in America are more "civilized". Whether someone gives alms or not, he won't stick to pedestrians. Second, the issue of public security. America is a country ruled by law. Generally speaking, public security is still relatively good. No matter in the city or in the buildings or houses in the suburbs, we can't see the anti-theft network facilities called "Guangdong characteristics". The most serious public security problem is the black community, such as Harlem in Manhattan, new york, where ordinary people are afraid to go in at night. In Chinese-inhabited areas, in recent years, due to the large increase of new immigrants, especially illegal immigrants, and the evil deeds of individual blacks, public security has become increasingly worrying. There are reports of Chinese being robbed in the newspaper every day. On June 9, 65438, Huang, a new immigrant college student from Taishan who lives in Coney Island, Brooklyn, was robbed and killed by Lamar Mians, a black man, in broad daylight, which aroused strong repercussions among Chinese. According to the data provided by the U.S. Department of Justice, at present, the total number of prison inmates in the United States has reached 1.983 million, accounting for 1/4 of the total number of prisoners in the world, making it the country with the largest number of prisoners in the world. In new york, next to the municipal government building is a heavily guarded prison, and people who visit the prison line up every day. Among overseas Chinese, the young and popular sex crimes and the frequent school shootings are the strongest reflections on American social problems. They are worried that these things will happen to their children. They said: "We can only pray for God's blessing, and the Clinton administration has no ability to solve these problems."