Why are Americans so concerned with what others are doing?

Question

Why does everything here seem to be a compition? (Bigger cars, home, higher salaries...)

Answer 1

Because God forbid they focus on something they need to improve about their personality or moral values. Just get a big car...that means you're doing it right!

Answer 2

Because it is a competition, for a great many people. I'm not one of them, tho'. That's the way our society operates, and capitalism thrives on it, so it's acceptable behavior.

We're like children with a new toy - we don't want it anymore when we see someone else with something newer and shinier. So we toss the old to the side without a second thought, forgetting about it instantly and not caring about where it went or what happened to it, and then complain and whine until we get what we want. Then we do it all over again.

That's the main reason for our disposable society, and the reason why we have so many choices offered to us in stores and whatnot.

Answer 3

Greed and jealousy. Some compare economic status to social importance.

Answer 4

That is the way so many Americans were raised. You have to have more material possessions to prove that you are a good person....

Answer 5

It's the way our society works.. Bigger Cars.. Bigger boats.. and it's suposto mean your a better person, but you know... It really all dosen't matter...

Answer 6

It's the American way. The think is to be happy with what you have and that it could be worse. You could be living in Israel with all that fighting goin on.

Answer 7

Greed, jealousy and no sense of self worth.

Answer 8

Greed...plain and simple.