A large number of Americans believe the identity she bemoans is what makes us special, even noble. And there’s the issue.
My teenage daughter tells me: "America has no sense of community. We're all selfish." This is the lesson we have passed down in this era.
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This is why schools are closed. The childless don’t give a crap if kids are mentally wasting away staring at a screen for 8 hours a day
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I think what we pass down is the idea of community and the reality of society, and they may differ sometimes. Good parenting!
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Kinda seems like a parenting thing.
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Sadly, your daughter is right. American Exceptionalism has evolved into "I don't care about anybody EXCEPT myself."
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Poor child. The DMV is, sadly, very much like this, but not America. I suggest a University visit to Vanderbilt or Tulane.
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It’s true.
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Our sense of community is certainly fractured. We don't have as much care or consideration for the larger community of our nation where we have to care for others who don't think or look like us. We are selfish. To a degree, I'd argue, it's necessary to survive under capitalism.
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When I said this in a neighborhood forum, I was told that coming from a South Asian culture, I wasn't really American and would not be able to understand American individualism
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Wow not cool.
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