Social problems in the USA 美国社会问题英文版

Drug &the youth
• 27.3% junkie begin to use drug because of anguish, Loneliness, depressed • 41%youth used drug when they were in middle school • 62% youth have gone to drug trade center • 1,000,000 children between 8 to 12 years old have seen the drug trade in their school
The Abuse of Power by Government and Corporations
A crucial problem of government and corporation concerns power and the abuse of it . Americans lives are dominated by large public and private organizations .
The CIA , without any authorization from Congress , plotted the assassination of foreign heads of state , including Fidel Castro of Cuba .
As for corporations , they are widely believed to be more concerned with their own profits than with social responsibility ,and the quality or price of their products , or the truth of their advertising .
The scandal provoked congressional investigations of the FBI and the CIA that turned literally thousands of illegal acts in the executive branch of government .
Unlike most other peoples,
American are primarily a nation of immigrants.
The citizens or their ancestors immigrated from many parts of the globe. Though people all share a common American culture, the nation contains many racial and ethnic subcultures with their own distinctive characteristics.
These differences have
contributed to racial conflicts that have been a persistent social problem to American society.
Martin Luther King encouraged black people to use
Crime
——Another serious social problem
Crime in US
• Crime is one of the most serious social problems facing the nation. • A survey by the LEAA found that 61% of all women feel unsafe in their own neighborhoods at night ; • 45% is afraid to walk alone at night near their own home; and that 47% own guns,largely for self-protection.Even someone said that almost half of American women were raped at least once in a lifetime.
Drug &crime
Drug trafficking and violence Drug abuse and violence
Drug &death
The reason
• • • • • Excessive drug use Suicide because of drug Cause other disease Indifferent attitude after junkie is ill Death because of accident regularly
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Social problems in the united states
Contents
Racial problems Poverty
Drug abuse
Crime
The Abuse of Power by Government and Corporations
The origin ofns to achieve their goals of equal
treatment.
Finally, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to stop discrimination in all public places.