Donald Trump: What Makes Us Humane?

Morrie outlined how American culture was bad for the soul in many ways, he states “People are only mean when they’re threatened, and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does. …And when you get threatened, you start looking out for only yourself.”(Albom, 154) Morrie sees why people are selfish and they feel a sense of entitlement, and he still has compassion for them. I struggle with feeling compassion in a culture that sees compassion as weakness and charity as a thing to be exploited. There was a great revelation for me when Morrie’s talks about cultures problem, “. . . the biggest defect we human being

Throughout the discussion of empathy within the sphere of international relations, others agree that empathy plays a significant role in conflict reduction. Neta Crawford argues that while a lack of trust and empathy underlies ongoing conflict, “increasing empathy often precedes and may indeed be an important cause of the reduction in tensions and conflicts between groups (Crawford 2014:538). Other scholars also agree that empathy attributes to conflict resolution as it functions as a “normative ideal for a rehumanized view of the other” (Halpern & Weinstein 2004:583). Head supports that in order to work toward a rehumanized view of whoever is considered a member of the out-group, empathy must involve the capacity to truly listen and understand the other’s needs, feelings and desires (Head presentation, May 19, 2016). For example, taking the time and effort to truly understand the needs and feelings of the thousands of Syrian refugees will help citizens of outside countries to view them as not just people of a distant land, but as human beings needing specific international

Individualistic societies. America is an individualistic society. An individualistic society is, according to Very Well, “Individualistic cultures are those that stress the needs of the individual over the needs of the group as a whole. In this type of culture, people are seen as independent and autonomous. Social behavior tends to be dictated by the attitudes and preferences of individuals.” This causes, as mentioned before, the point of view where many Americans see others that are not like them as non-humans. So when we view other countries, we don’t see them like they see us and vice versa. This can cause something called the fundamental attribution error. According to study.com, the fundamental attribution error is “Our tendency to explain someone else’s behavior based on internal factors.” an example the website provides is: “Your professor is angry at the class for getting bad grades. You attribute that by thinking he has a bad temper when in reality he is just concerned about the classes grades. This is the fundamental attribution error.” An example to show where our spoiled America is making a mistake at is in the most recent news. According to our media outlets, Assad (the 19th president of Syria) had gassed his own people. This followed with conflicting reports that Syria had allegedly moved all of its chemical weapons out of the country, and Assad actually appearing on local television to say that the most

Someone wiser than I, once said, “Eye for an eye will make this world go blind”.

As Wiesel says “ It is much easier to look away from the victims” (444). This is true, because no one wants to tangle their life with those of victims and ruin everything that they have worked so hard to earn. However, Wiesel goes onto further explain, “ for the person who is indifferent, his or her neighbors are of no consequence... And, therefore, their lives are meaningless” (444). It goes onto say that even if it was someone they knew and were somewhat friends with, a person who is indifferent still would not care .To them they do not want to risk everything they have for a person or issue that does not impact their life personally. This is what restricts the other person from attaining freedom, because if everyone had the same view as a person who was indifferent, then the victims will never see liberty. Being indifferent is tempting, because you are safe from harm, but however it blocks a person who is suffering greatly to ever be

As a society Americans tend to struggle with the concept of empathy. It is becoming increasingly popular to withhold compassion to those in need. Instead of treating others with common decency, Americans have romanticized the notion of “me first,” throwing empathy away in favor of self-preservation. This lack of empathy can be seen in the ongoing social debate over Syrian refugees. Americans were presented with an opportunity to provide asylum to the citizens of a war torn country, and show the world that we have the capacity for empathy. Unfortunately, the American people are so preoccupied with their fear of Islam that the idea of letting a Muslim into America is terrifying. Instead of having empathy for the victims of a bloody civil war

The social pressures of a masculine culture that discourages strong emotions other than anger and rage encourages citizens to shut out empathy for the pain of others, both past and present. Women weep over the past, while men look ahead to forge the future. This is quite the significant task, as Western history is filled with the pain of others. This willful amnesia is reckless and enables present and future harm to be inflicted on the other, because we refuse to learn from the lessons of the past and feel guilty about the hundreds of thousands of innocent people we have killed. We can see this in the current Syrian refugee debate. In the late 1930s, Americans were opposed to accepting even a small number of Jewish refugees based on the fear

The powerhead that holds all power, yes this man is able to become the future of our world today. Now what many people say are. “ He’s a capitalist and trying to take our money! Now I can almost guarantee you all know who this is, Donald Trump. Now these sorts of things are extremely important while it comes to the politicians world and truly show the shape of this candidate. But what I'm going going to do is look at him without these background knowledge or crazy things people have said. My question is. Does his good ideas outweigh the bad ideas? Now I’m going to go topic by topic to truly for my final opinion.

You will only experience what directly affects you, and what you experience is all you will ever truly understand. What I don’t understand, however, is the idea that we should be focusing on the people that we can’t even see... If we were able to rise to a place of stability within our own country, in which we could afford to support people who didn’t need us to begin with, then I believe it would be our duty to supply other populations with the necessary means to get them out of a survivalist life and into one where they can breathe easy and drink clean water. But we can barely support our own, judging by the fact that there are still homeless and diseased Americans while we have some multi-billion-dollar celebrities with enough influence to convince their supporters that everyone is perfect as long as they feel comfortable - unless they can’t fit into a size 6 or look flawless in a bikini. Media has brought us out of a world that supplied us with the empathy capable of uplifting our acquaintances, and introduced one of detachment. Regardless of whether or not this was the intention of media, it is the consequence of endless connections; as is the endless supply of

Annie Lennox is a famous singer, songwriter and known activist. Her statement on humankind’s capacity for savagery, brutality and lack of compassion and empathy comes from an informed source; though I still feel it is biased, and though I agree with most of the statement, I also disagree with it. I can agree that humanity over the course of our existence has done terrible things, but there are many positive things that get over looked and unappreciated. During an event of genocide, war or natural disaster: the countries that have the finances and resources to aid, do. It is true that we usually have to wait for more knowledge to avoid making some situations worse; humanity will come to aide in time. There are people in the world who do things

It is easy to question if compassion even exists in a world that seems so hateful. Purportedly “selfless acts” can be selfish ones under a guise of compassion: celebrities do benevolent charity work in Africa to distract from their latest scandal, yet people in America are living on the streets.

There are many people who believe society cares for their people, but when society supposes to care about the people, they may be the entity hurting people the most because they are like zombies, waiting for citizens to mess up so they can get on to them, and the people around the citizens only care about their laughter, not their weeping and sorrow because our nation is ignorant to the desires of its people.

We don’t show enough empathy like the boy in this video “persectalces”. At first this high schooler walk past a boy sitting on the ground trying to write in his note book with a long face the high school boy look at him and walks past. So people in this generation don't understand just by giving someone a piece a food or a shelter could help then in the long run in life and can them look at the world

This concept of false altruism extended even to the Nazis during the Holocaust. As Heinrich Himmler told the SS, 'We shall never be rough or heartless where it is not necessary; that is clear. We Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude to animals, will also adopt a decent attitude to these human animals,' Among the so-called enlightened few, their purpose was to Shepard the world and to attend to all the foolish children (lesser races and women) as is the purpose of their race.

As human beings we can be selfish and we do not really care about matters that have little to do with our lives or affect us in a major way, which is why problems that affect us as a