#16 World of Walls

 


Since the fall of the Berlin wall the amount of walls constructed around the world have incredibly grown. Nowadays there are sixty-five countries which are building walls and fences, or which already have them, and the reasons why they decided to build such barriers are varied. The issues involved in building walls depend on their final aim, some are constructed to establish religious differences, others made to increase security and most of them are created to prevent the entrance of immigrants or refugees, drug dealers and terrorist from bordering countries. Even though these barriers provide a sense of safeness, their effectiveness is proved to be limited since people find a way to pass through or to climb them.

It was shocking for me when I learned about the amount of countries which have built walls and fences in order to separate themselves from their neighbouring countries. I strongly believe that walls are not the solution for criminals, drug dealers, terrorists or refugees or to the different difficulties that countries have to face, in fact, they worsen the situation even more. Consequently, I do not think that these walls are going to be pulled down in a near future, there will be more of them in other parts of the world because more countries will prefer to become isolated.