Subj : Re: Y'all or Ya'll?
To : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Wed Jul 19 2023 09:13 pm
-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-
>> politician, or political party, thinks it is my responsibility to
>> help them pay it off. :(
Ga> It's one of the most aggravating of current events that I can think of.
Ga> Absolutely infuriates me. There is no valid or justifiable reason to be
Ga> doing it, other than a political stunt to win the votes of said students
Ga> (and/or their parents). That's all it is.
Ni> I've wondered about this, and I think one of the factors about
Ni> this is whether the society is more individualistic or
Ni> group-oriented. People in the US tend to be more
Ni> individualistic, so it makes sense that the thought process for
Ni> many people in the US would be "I shouldn't have to pay for other
Ni> students, and if they want to be successful, they need to pay for
Ni> it themselves". In other countries that make college tuition
Ni> inexpensive or free, I've wondered if it's because of a more
Ni> collectivist mindset - Perhaps their government wants to have a
Ni> strong economy by having an educated workforce, so they want to
Ni> do what they can to make a higher education attainable for many
Ni> of its citizens.
I think that's all correct. It's also a sign of those countries being
much more receptive to the ideas/beliefs of socialism, which is
generally not very well received here in the USA. Independence,
freedom, and small government / small taxes are sort of a fundamental
thing in America, and have been since .... 1776. ;-)
