Re:What San Francisco Says About America
by 6t6t6t6 on Sunday September 18, 2016 @09:34PM
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I have visited California several times for work (and tourism) and I tend to hang out on forums where most of the users are from the US. And now I live in Japan, which helps me to have an "external view" on my own European culture.
One of the things that surprised me the most the first time I visited the US was one particular conversation with a sensible, well educated person. She literally told me:
"I don't care if someone is not able to pay to a medical treatment. If that person didn't plan well their life, is their mistake. I am not going to pay the medical costs for them."
Of course, this is just one person, but my feeling is that this a predominant way of thinking in the US.
Where do you "see" that?
I am curious have you visited America? Have you spoken to Americans that live in cities that have acute problems with homelessness? Have you visited those cities yourself?
I can assure you that what you "see" in the American mentality is not the predominant or prevailing view. Its actually quite a complicated problem that involves mental health, bad circumstances, social programs, drug addiction, child abuse and a host of other nuances. Its very easy to over simplify from an ocean away though.