Vanishing American?

Question

I'm wondering about the feelings evoked by the words "Vanishing American"

for a psychology exam....

Just spit out some words about this... Don't censor yourself...

Answer 1

To me vanishing America- Is the downfall of the fiber of what our country was founded on. Independence was what the country fought for & freedom.
In a matter of a relitivly short period of time we are becoming arrogent & an aura of intitlment. We think we need to police the world and save the world......but on our terms. We spend billions of dollors helping other countries when we don't help the impoverished in our own country. We build expensive air craft when there are familes & individuals that don't have any health care, or miminal, yet expensive health that they can't even afford a doctor's visit.
We are letting illegal immigrents do our labor and then fuss about them eating up our wellfare dollors and crowding out hospitals because they don't have health care insurance.
We are mad because they are here, yet we need them.
What we need is a migrent worker work force.....with temporary visa's in to the country to do seasonal work. Give them housing and health care, Then let them go back to where they come from on the off season.
We fight unwinabe wars. We bully other countries. We let immigrenat in without expecting them to become Americanized. When my family came from Europe they had to learn english, there weren't inturruptors or things writen in other languages. I go shopping now and find goods written in Spanish and I have to look for the english words. Why can't they learn english like other immigrents did when they got to the counrty?
We think we are so open minded that we literally have holes in our heads where we become so tolerent that we let people on the streets get killed with illegal guns and expect people to live in poverty.
We need to take care of ourself before we take care of other countries. If we crumble as a nation we lose respect of our people and other countries who can already see us on a downward road.
We let the poor grow hungry and hopeless while our movie stars spend $10,000 a night on a hotel suite. Then we pay to read in magazines about their tradic lives.

We are two faced. We are full of "political correctness" But very short on common sense.

We are spoiled......it used to be a chicken in every pot. Now it is computer, ipods, game, computers that even the poor seem to have.

We are dying from the inside out. We have people who are more concerned with Poliical correctness just becasue they don't have minds and opinions of their own.

We let the break down of the American families. It is as if people are punished for being married.. YOung labors who do very hard work don't get health care, so they are so trapped by circumstances that they can't even crawl out of the
hole of poverty they are in .. If they earn $2 more dollors a month they lose all benifits. Why bother working harder. it isn't worth it. Meanwhile the well to do have the best care in the entire world. The people who fall in to the below poverty level can't marry because they will lose the state or county health care. It seems that the American family is being punished meanwhile we are embracing other groups because it is "political correct"
Concerning same sex marriages........well the defination of marriage is when a man & a woman become one and it has been the way things have been sinse the beginning of time.
Suddeny gay couples want the rights of marriage. First the defination of marriage would have to change. Why not let them have civil unions or Partner unions and go from there. Why chip away at the american families.

We love a president who couldn't keep his zipper up and we as americans are permiscous. The fiber of which this country was founded on is slowly disappearing.

We rescue a family of rats because they are close to extintion while kicking a farmer off his land. We want to save everything........excpet ourselves. I am not saying that it is wrong to take care of our enviroment, I am just saying that we need to do it in a wise way. Before you know it we will be saving a carrot or save the ants. We go so overboard to be poliltically correct. We can save all but ourselves.

What we need back is balance. Compassion for our own people before we send billions of dollors to other countries.

We need to learn by history that affulent countries rarely stand for more than 2,000 years. We are due for a big crash & burn, if we don't change our ways.

We have programs that just put a bandaid on issure rather than have the balls to take care of our own.

There is nothing wrong with helping the poor of the world, but we can't take care of other's until we take care of ourselves.

Answer 2

Patriotic, God-fearing, Law abiding, English Speaking these are the things that are vanishing from the current image of the American. These are the core values of what a true American is.

Answer 3

I honestly DON'T think so! If anyone says this phrase, they are clueless to the American cultures that exist, are making a naive and flippant remark, and/or they are trying to evoke a response (like mine) in the people that they are communicating with.

Answer 4

To me, that feels like the America that is losing it's identity and is evolving into an entirely different culture while the older culture (1950's etc.) vanishes into the background.


I hope this is helpful?

Answer 5

The results from WW1, WW2 that led to the Korea War and the Vietnem Conflict which affect us to this day.