“Before I came to America I thought the streets were paved with gold.” A common saying many Immigrants say about America. About 45 million people immigrate to The United States of America in search for something their home country cannot offer them. Being raised in A Third world country vs. A first world country are very distinctive, and with childhood comes the education, which is also a very different contrast between the two types. A third world country such as Colombia and a first world country such as America both Societies in the first world countries and the third world countries are discintevly different in topics such as Education, wealth and poverty, and health and safety. In Colombia 50% of students dropout before obtaining a high …show more content…
This is because in colombia the school hours are from 6am-12 pm so children have more free time to play and in colombia the weather is year round, depending on what region of colombia it is typically hot weather. Since it is a third world country they are not modernized with electronics as much as America is, and lack of security with electronics play a factor into it too. Children depend on their outside environment for entertainment. The menta this is because of how much a 9 year old in colombia is exposed to in comparison to a 14 year old american who is more shielded from their outside society. Due to difference in childhoods.majority of the Education in america is free in comparison to colombia, to get a decent education in a decent institution you’d have to pay for school, so 1 in every 7 children are affected by this because of lack of income in their household. And necessities at home. Exposed to multiculturalism and loose connections between people in society lack of things in common. An example of chapter 7. “Culturalism”; the value of our culture gives us a blueprint for our lives and being exposed to other cultures and other people’s blueprints of life gives american the extra boost of knowledge of how societies are in other countries out of