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When the U.S. suffered a natural disaster, people were moved and inspired by how kind and generous its citizens were. People were moved to see how lucky they were to be Americans, and how the government was doing everything it could to help them out. This quote makes a great point about the typical mindset of many Americans. Most people don’t feel that the government is doing enough for them, and that there’s plenty of room for improvement.
They think that Americans should be more grateful, and they feel like there’s not much the government can do to make them happy. It’s easy to see why there would be this mentality in a country where you can only vote once every few years and where no one really knows what their representative is up to behind closed doors. However, as Nelson Mandela pointed out, those who blame natural disasters on their own country are ignoring the power of persistence and those who rise up after they fall.
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