Envejecimiento y miopía social en los Estados Unidos
The United States confronts reconfigurations complicated by generational unbalances among its ethnic and racial groups. These unbalances, concerning population numbers and wealth distribution, foster a staunch individualism undermining the stability of collective support networks, such as that count...
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| Lenguaje: | Español |
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://relasp.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/26 |
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| Sumario: | The United States confronts reconfigurations complicated by generational unbalances among its ethnic and racial groups. These unbalances, concerning population numbers and wealth distribution, foster a staunch individualism undermining the stability of collective support networks, such as that country’s social security system. This paper highlights an everyday expression of such individualism to point at a social myopia in which, in an apparently inconsequential manner, short-term, individualistic interests erode the common good. It calls attention to the fact that a reluctance to share privileges and influence in accordance to the new social and racial percentages of the country challenges its widely claimed democratic principle of majority rule. |
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