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The Railway People In a world where the “globalization“ acquires an increasingly
relevant importance, in a system where this word is not just an abstract
concept but its strength is actually based on the practical application of its
meaning, when looking deeply, often one realizes that this word is used in a
partial and reductive way. In an age when products and merchandises have less
borders than men, they enjoy enormous “privileges”, greater than for men, and
one realizes that globalization excludes the universal principles of the common
good such as justice, dignity, the right to life and health. Ignored and
forgotten by a society that follows its idea of development and wellness head
down, regardless to the poorer segments of population, a remarkable part of the
Asian metropolis inhabitants are forced to live in the spaces that have been
left free and where nobody would even dream to live in. Therefore, railway
rails, escarps, points stations, have become actual districts: cardboard or
metal sheet walls, nylon cloths as a roof, this is what the luckiest call home.
Often, the poor living conditions reach stunning levels: |