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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm from Pakistan and though my parents and people in our urban family & friend circle treated house help really well, we continuously read about cases where house help was treated like slaves, specially in villages. [/quote]

1.  They treated them "really well", but...they paid them almost nothing.  Maybe they didn't slap them or yell at them, and maybe your mom gave her old clothes and the kids' clothes to them, but that doesn't make up for the fact that these people are paid so little they have no chance of having a clean, safe home or any alternative.  Have you ever seen the slums where these people live?  I have.

2. In Pakistan, if a person rapes, beats, or even murders a servant/maid, even a child servant, "forgiveness laws" mean that punishment can be avoided or reduced drastically IF the family of the victim agrees to "forgive" the perpetrator.  And if your family lives in a slum, has just lost a working body making wages as a maid/servant, and the perpetrator offers them a little bit of money, they HAVE TO "forgive" them.  But of course, most of these crimes are not even reported, as the family of the victim risks financial ruin or becoming targets themselves.  How civilized.

3.  About 40% of Pakistanis are illiterate.  There are scores of child servants/maids and people who have worked as servants for below-poverty level wages for generations, with no education or chance at anything else.

But of course, every one you know "treats their servants really well!"[/quote]

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