Topic: Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

Art is a way of showcasing and describing country’s culture and local traditions. It is useless to compare the impact of an artist and an engineer or a doctor. No one can say that Leonardo Da Vinci is nothing in front of Nicola Tesla. Art includes not only paintings but also theatres, film and music industry, dance etc. One might argue that spending billions of dollars by the film and entertainment industry is a contributing factor to the unemployment of and hunger, but these industries generate huge employment for people with skills such as Sound Engineers, Interior Designers, Architects and of course Lawyers and Doctors. Eradicating hunger and unemployment comprehend a list of factors, which includes allocation of funds for different industries, education of citizens, inflation and overall economic condition of the country and the World as a whole, pandemics and epidemics, natural resources of the country etc. According to a report by the World Bank, in any country, national defense gets the highest amount of government funding every year during the National Budget announcements, while the lowest benefactors are Arts and Tourism. The governments, throughout the world, are trying to develop the art as an industry. Now the question arises, should this little funding be considered as a spendthrift idea?
Let us consider, for instance, a tribal village, known as Ramchandrapur, in the state of Odisha, India, where people communicate with each other by drawing on the walls of their houses or huts. The young people receive education from government schools, after which they get employed by the government organizations as Art specialists or Sketch Artists. Suppose, the village stops receiving support from the government. It is hard to imagine their lives without art. The Reserve Bank of India, aka RBI, states that India suffers a staggering unemployment rate of 23%, which certainly cannot be compensated by reducing fund allocation to the arts sector.
On the contrary, one can put forward the percentage of employment generation by the Art industry for common people. For instance, in majority of the countries in the African Continent, people suffer from hunger and unemployment and do not depend of Art for feeding their offspring. If their respective governments spend money on Art, then public outrage against the decision is a sure event. Certainly, hunger and unemployment in African countries are issues that the world is aware of and giant NGOs such as Bill and Melinda Gates Org, are fighting hard to counteract the issues.
Again, in countries such as USA, Japan and Great Britain, the most outstanding overall trend has been that government activity and government support for the arts have expanded tremendously since 1945, post 2nd World War. In the countries without a major prior public commitment to the arts, strong programs had taken root by the 1980s so that government support in those countries now has a significant impact on the arts. In many countries of continental Europe, government ministries with responsibility for the arts already were firmly established by the 1930s. These governments do not compromise funds allocated for arts with other sectoral allocations. According to a New York Times article, Japan’s Anime, have larger fan following Basketball and Olympics combined. In Japan, children are taught to draw, for free, and is a hence Anime industry is a huge employer in the country.
The overriding conclusion that emerges from the above-mentioned points is that government support for the arts is here to stay everywhere in the industrialized world. There has, of course, been a long tradition of state support for the arts on the continent of Europe. What has been the striking development of the postwar years is that state support now appears to be a firmly entrenched component of the political traditions of Great Britain, Ireland, North America and Japan as well. Government involvement has grown impressively at all levels. There has been a growing recognition that the artistic community is a legitimate and worthwhile element of society, as deserving of governmental assistance as are the many other groups that are aided by the state.