Quote:I'm not the most politically savvy person but I absolutely agree with you there. What's crazy about that is it seems like foreign societies view our society as extremely entitled, and the above policies seem like they probably exacerbate that trait.

When I lived in Germany back in 2000-2003 I asked German folks how they viewed Americans and they all said that overall we were arrogant and (we) thought we deserved everything to be handed to us. They realized not everyone was like that but that was the general view. These are folks who lived and worked around Americans as we have an Army installation there so it was first hand accounts for some and for others it was from the media or whatever. I couldn't really argue with them. I just tried to set a good example of what an American was.


And this was more than 10 years ago now. The country as a whole has gotten much worse with the entitlement attitude in the last decade.

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