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Originally Posted by Trend
As in ...
"No one should have three cars .. one is plenty"
"Starbucks is for snobs... Tim Horton's is good enough"
"I don't understand why you need a 3500sqft home"
"Why would I want to grow my business... I get by just fine"
"I don't want to be global, that's too much work"
" I really don't mind that we are only on season 3 of _______ insert the show"
" I can't believe you are staying at the Bulgari Hotel Milan .. it's so obnoxious"
It's a general acceptance of less than the best.
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Have you travelled much before?
It sounds like it was your first time spending a lot of time outside the USA.
Sure but you're talking about attitutes and as the other guy said you cannot generalize. USA has some serious problems, is not as free as it used to be and is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world. But Americans are some of the most ambitious and entrepreneurial people on the face of the earth.
Its a culture there so if you compare like that with just average people attitudes, you maybe get that result. Also when you're just visiting, you wont necessarily mix with the business people and the high classes etc.
When I first went to India the only things I liked were the beautiful fabrics and the wonderful fruit.... Mangos, Papaya and Kurbuza Melons etc (these fruits are amazing). Everything else was a pile of crap until I actually travelled and explored the country and tried to "see" objectively and learned about the culture, the history and tried to see it through their eyes. Then tie it back to all the history/economics - that's how it becomes enriching for me.
When I first went to China, I went totally expecting communism to be in my face. The revelation I was faced with was not how different China is to what I was expecting. The people's attitudes, being chased by people like im a exotic bird, the food they eat, how friendly the people are and how different it was to how it has been presented in the Media and the list goes on.