helot:
(plural: ‘helots‘; for the two different pronunciations of this word, please click here)
helots in agricultural activities in Sparta, Ancient Greece
(with a capital H — Helot) a person belonged to a class of people who were not slaves and not free citizens in a place called Sparta in ancient Greece; a serf;
(also used, without a capital H) to refer to a slave in some contexts in Spartan times;
a member of any present social group which is not respected,
the present day helots, the illegal immigrants as agricultural labourers in the USA
According to history, a helot in the Spartan times was a prisoner-of-war and was the property of the state.
Some political experts believe that, in the present day economics, immigrants are the ‘helots’ who are neither free people nor slaves; they are the in-betweens who have to slave to stay free on the land they like to live on.
More and more people are beginning to realise that there are more helots in the world today than there were in Sparta in Ancient Greece!
According to some financial experts, more than fifty per cent of the present American population is “helots” — bonded with the banks and health insurance companies for student loans, housing loans, health insurances and credit card loans — slaving to get themselves free from those yokes!!!
