The Modern Day American Culture - 1038 Words

In modern day American culture; American citizens have become ignorant to many issues that affect people globally. Unless it seems to directly affect them people tend to be completely apathetic to gaining new knowledge of foreign occurrences, and why would they? America has fallen into an age of egocentrism in which it fails to consider the problems many people globally face, those issues which are considered unimportant or irrelevant by media sources country-wide. The ineptitude of Americas populous on issues of foreign economical and geopolitical matters is astounding. While our focus has been so concentrated in places where we are not needed, and have been repeatedly told we are not wanted, there have been many in need that have been brushed over. How is American egocentrism harmful to others? This question has been brought up many times, and can be safe to say that American cultures value of itself over others can be very harmful to many groups worldwide that don’t get much recognition. A quote taken from The Narcissism Experiment says, â€Å"The United States is currently suffering from an epidemic of narcissism.† (Campbell, Twenge) This has become increasingly true in the past couple decades, and Americans as a whole have started to become blind the problems people of the world tend to face every day. The story of Memory Banda, who has had experiences few outside her country would understand in the way she does, is one of these cases. For many people in America â€Å"I willShow MoreRelatedEssay on A Message of Hope in Love Medicine1005 Words   |  5 Pagespopular stereotypes of American Indians. The novel generally follows the history of a family of Chippewa Indians who live on and off a reservation. 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