RAWSTORY PROVIDES AN INTERESTING STUDY, READ BELOW:
“[P]articipants overestimated the Extent that #Americans can move up or down the social class hierarchy. In terms of upward mobility, participants overestimated, over a ten-year period, the extent that working 1,000 extra hours would improve their income standing, the number of individuals who would move from the bottom 20 percent to the top 20 percent of income, the amount that some college would move people out of the bottom 20 percent of income, and the number of students from the bottom 20 percent of income families at top universities. Participants also underestimated the extent that students from the top universities are from the top 20 percent of income families, suggesting again that participants overestimated the extent that universities are open to Americans from lower income levels.”
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We are all, as a species, just trying to get through this thing called life. The conservative American notion that people with far better healthcare, civil rights laws and gun control “hate our freedom” is a wishful imperialist delusion. Worse, it’s not fooling anybody at this point.
That said, if all the world’s a stage, America is a prime player: a rich, loud, attention-seeking celebrity not fully deserving of its starring role, often putting in a critically reviled performance and tending toward histrionics that threaten to ruin the show for everybody else. (Also, embarrassingly, possibly the last to know that its career as top biller is in rapid decline.) To the outside onlooker, American culture—I’m consolidating an infinitely layered thing to save time and space—is contradictory and bizarre, hypocritical and self-congratulatory. Its national character is a textbook Study in narcissistic tendencies coupled with crushing insecurity issues. You MUST read the entire article here: Americans are delusional, prudish religious nuts–especially when compared to the rest of world: study
CANDOR TALK SAYS:
It is not that I am shocked by this study as it just reinforces many beliefs I have about the level we as a Society have denigrated to. We have become a spoiled society of individuals who presume they are entitled. Our compassion for those around the world and our understanding of different cultures has regressed. We are no longer the society of acceptance, rather we are an angry society that continues to divert our own failures on those who we ignorantly blame for our own incapabilities. While we are a rich country, we are also a very divided and corrupt country. Corrupt in that we have a rigged system that focuses on power and wealth to a select few and denigrate those who do not fit into that category. This election season confirmed the extent of our divisions and the extent of the pervasive ineptitude that permeates our society. More importantly, it has illuminated us to the deep rooted racism that has been festering for a long time. If Americans do not focus on global and cultural understanding, we are doomed as a nation.
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