In the far east, many people are taught to sacrifice for the nation or the community at large. I have a friend who is not happy in her marriage, but stays married because it pleases her parents. She puts aside her personal feelings because she loves her parents and believes or at least hopes that they have chosen the proper mate for her. This is literally such a foreign concept to americans. My american com padres, on the other hand, have total freedom of choice. Many of them are unhappy in their marriage because their me - never became we. Most are still focused on goals that they had when they were single - never willing to bend or compromise for the greater good of the family as a whole. Perhaps Madison Ave has feed us so many lies that we do believe we are the center of our on universe - even those of us who call ourselves Christian. You can't have a much greater example of sacrifice than that. Is this the world, the life, the future our ancestors envisioned, fought, died, and sacrificed for us.
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