Saturday, May 8, 2010

Comparism between rural and urban life.

Work
In a rural lifestyle the people have to wake up in the wee hours of the morning to start a hard day's work either fishing, farming or doing some other agriculture work as in a rural area there really is not much education. As for the urban lifestyle they also do wake up early but most of the people of such a lifestyle usually work at the desks and do paperwork. The salary of the workers of the different lifestyle also differ with the people doing agriculture ranging the most as the work they do largely depend on the weather whereas the work people of the urban lifestyle do is rather fixed. But there are also some similarities. For example even in a developed area there are still people who are blue collar workers who still have to work under the sun and wake up really earl such as construction workers. There are also some people whose salaries vary as they do businesses and it depends on whether people need their products. It is especially for people who sell winter wear as people only start buying their products during the winter solstice.

Education
In the education area many things are similar in terms of the two lifestyles. The people of the different lifestyles still learn how to count figures, read and write. Except that in an urban lifestyle more emphasis is place on education, people in such a lifestyle have much better facilities, have competitions, etc. Also in an urban lifestyle most people learn till university but as for a rural lifestyle most of the people drop studying after primary school education to help out in the fields. Also in the things they teach differ with the urban lifestyle learning things that help them survive in a world where everyone is competing against everyone else like critical thinking and independence. Whereas in a rural lifestyle none of these is taught, only basic things like grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic.

Lodging and family
For lodging in an urban lifestyle the houses are very nicely decorated, nice walling and also with every thing inside like entertainment and toilets. Unlike in rural lifestyle with the houses without decorations, without entertainment devices and even without toilets. This is because most people living in rural areas cannot be bothered with decorating their houses with all the other things they have to worry about. They only regard their home as a place for shelter and nothing else. They also do not build their sanitation areas inside the homes as they do not have drainage systems and do not wish to pollute their homes. As for a typical urban families, both the parents are the breadwinners while the mother has an extra role which is being the home keeper while the children are just there to learn and have fun. But in the rural areas most families are a bit more different with both the father and sometimes the children helping out with the fishing or farming jobs as there is too much for the parent. While the mother is the home keeper. But there is one scenario which is similar for both lifestyles which is having a dysfunctional family. That means to have one or both parents unable to work and thus the jobs of sustaining the family is tossed to the children. Although this is more common in the rural areas there are also such things in the urban areas.

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