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I disagree with point made in the article, that Americans are more tolerant to insecurity than europeans. There in my point several points that have to be made
by ilkhd2 17y ago
I disagree with point made in the article, that Americans are more tolerant to insecurity than europeans.
There in my point several points that have to be made.
1. America has horrible mass media, that does not even talk
about real issues, what is going on in the country.
2. Americans overall have not seen so many horrible things that Europe during it is own history - there is simply no collective idea what big problems may look like.
There are many other reasons, but majority of people here I beleive are Americans, I am not going to insult them.
- frossie 17y agoI don't think that the article meant that Americans feel less insecurity than the Europeans. I think that statement should be understood in the context of the author's reaction to his situation: his self-described passivity. In my experience, it is the case in many European countries that when there is perceived financial insecurity, or other threat to material well-being (eg. welfare changes), the insecurity people feel quickly turns into anger and then political protest - strikes, demonstrations etc. The US, and to a lesser extent the UK, people engage in a lot of expression of all the same emotions in the media, but due to cultural differences that does not translate into the kind of civic protest seen on the old continent. Hence the populace in the US can be perceived as more tolerant. That's how I understood what he said, anyway.