Social Stratification between Chile and Haiti
Different from Haiti, a person’s color in Chile is not the primary source of social discrimination, but social classes are the main cause of inequity. Most Chileans actions and reasoning are determined by traditional class divisions (mostly articulated as upper, middle, and lower). Castillo-Feliu (2016) realized that a class difference is primarily expressed in strong partial discrimination that mainly exists in metropolitan areas. Lower, middle and upper class lives largely separated from one another in a quite distinctive city sector and neighborhood. Chileans automatically describe people socially based on the municipal divisions within cities where the individuals live. Speeches are also markers of social stratifications.
An upper-class Chilean exaggerates their particular ways of verbal communication to specify their social supremacy. A lower-class Chilean speaks in very idiosyncratic ways (Castillo-Feliu, 2016). However, in Haiti, color constitutes the major source of social discrimination in history that led to the Haitian revolution to outlast the French revolution. According to Alexander (2016), Haiti was announced as the first Black republic in the western hemisphere in 1804. The outlasting of the French revolution in 1789 brought new concepts of universal citizenship and human rights. Though Geggus (2012) claims that Saint Dominique was the France wealthiest in the 18th century, the Haitian revolution eliminated the social classes leaving three groups of African descent; those who had run away, those who were slaves, and those who were free.