and yes Im american!!!!!
2006-09-16 16:00:09 · 22 answers · asked by beautifullybroken 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Because it so readily
available to us everyday.
What a shame that we do
take it so for granted. If
they only knew how different
things are in other parts of
the world.
We are extremely fortunate,
but I'm afraid we're going
down fast.
Let us hang on to our
Freedom!
2006-09-16 16:03:55 · answer #1 · answered by vim 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They didn't work for it and don't know anything to contrast it with.
We take electric lights, pure drinking water, flush toilets, honest policemen, bountiful supermarkets, decent roads and getting a dial tone 99.9999% of the time we pick up the phone for granted too.
People in Western Europe who didn't go through WWII take most of those for granted too, although the French light a candle in the family altar when they get who they dialed the first time.
2006-09-16 16:11:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of us have never had to live without our freedom, and the amendments to the constitution that we hold dear.
That is exactly why I am torn about Iraq. I never wanted our men and women there but most of the Iraqi people are so glad for their new found freedoms. I realize that we cannot turn around and walk away now.
2006-09-16 16:08:24 · answer #3 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like l;iving on the beach. Yes yes you live oin the beach the view is beautiful the salt sea the fresh air....but do you have a tan? No of course you don't have a tan that would require you actually take a day off work.
What I'm saying is that anything you grow accustomed to you soon, discover it will always be there and is no challenge to attain.
2006-09-16 16:23:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They take it for granted because everything has been given to them all their lives. The people who take it for granted also don't have the nerve to go fight or support war in order to obtain or retain our freedom.
2006-09-16 18:31:33 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. bhap 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. Maybe they've never been hassled by the cops or been in an experience where citizenship was called into question, such as when you apply for a passport. I think people just get into routines and tend to stick to them if they work.
2006-09-16 16:10:06 · answer #6 · answered by synchronicity915 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we have so many corupt judges ,laywers and leader's of this country and they make it very hard to get excited about anything in this country except to pay more in taxes and have insurance company's influance a vote in congress, or have your vote bought by big oil company's. Are you out of your ever loven mind? Maybe you should do some investagating on your own and get real, your a milk cow!
2006-09-16 16:12:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
just like how everyone else said, we don't know what it's like without the freedoms. we're not the colonists who had some freedoms while Great Britain was fighting the French and Indian War and then had them take those freedoms away, so we don't take them as seriously as they did
2006-09-16 16:14:31 · answer #8 · answered by liz_enator 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you take air for granted? Do you expect that everywhere you go (besides underwater) that you will be able to breath? Of course you do, because you have always had it.
2006-09-16 16:02:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They take it for granted because they will be granted a vision and desire that will never be theirs
2006-09-16 16:07:43 · answer #10 · answered by See ya later aligator 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋