American Culture Gratification

As an American culture we thrive on gratification As Eliot Aronson says, “We Americans seem to thrive on competition; we reward winners and are disdainful of losers.” When the United States was hunting for Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, they were determined and were not going to give up; they were the “alpha male” in pursuit of win. When they “killed” Osama Bin Laden, the subsequent reaction of the public personally sickened me. The gargantuan number of people in the streets celebrating the death of a human being seemed inhumane to me and somewhat immature. Yes, it is something to be happy about--an evil human being is no longer able to harm the human race, but this doesn’t condone dancing in the streets in your underwear. Aronson