spinaroonie said:
The better a society treats its women, the worse the women tend to be.
The worse a society treats its women, the better the women tend to be.
Discuss.
I'll generalize this:
The more any person has to go through in his or her life, the better he or she becomes at his or her life.
We live in a country where you literally only need to leave your house for work - even then, you probably don't. Even our poor people will never starve to death, because we have the luxuries (and enough people who care) to make sure that literally no one dies. Shoot, society doesn't even make demands on people to just be polite or civil anymore. In the USA, in my opinion the greatest country in the world, we have become our own worst enemies because we're constantly fighting the tendency to get lazy and complacent -
I call this "someone else should do it for me because I deserve it" syndrome.
The key point about people coming from rougher countries is that they don't have entitlement issues. They know that what you work for is what you get - and that even sometimes, you work your a*s off for nothing.
This is why I'm glad I'm first generation. My parents taught me really early not to complain - when they were young, a "bad day" meant seeing a friend or acquaintance blown up by a land mine, and a good day meant having something to eat whilst not getting shot at.
Some pretty f-ed up stories to tell a 6 year old, you might say, but honestly, the cold sting (and ultimately the empowerment) of being in touch with reality doesn't care about how old you are.