Blog #7

I want to focus on the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip and what it means. It's significance was that people in power do not care about the others as long as they are able to thrive. This can speak to an large amount of issues that people who want to succeed in their everyday life, because there is always going to be someone who doesn't want other to succeed. The first thing I thought about when I saw this comic was when the Europeans came over to the Americas. Even though not everyone was bad, I know that the people in power wanted their people to survive in the new world over the natives who were already inhabiting the land. Europeans killed the natives, both without intention as well as intentionally. Anytime a group of people are trying to take over another groups land, resource, etc. it is noticeable how selfish they are, and our history here in America has always been a selfish one. Even when we say we are doing it for the good, there's always something we are doing that is just for ourselves, and that's one aspect about being American that I don't like.

When I Google search "what is the most selfish country," America is mentioned six times as the most selfish on the first page, followed by Australia being mentioned three times. There was actually a little spinet of an article stating that China appears to be the most selfish, foll wed by Russia, but it was just based off the Olympics, so I figured it wasn't really important to my point. The picture below shows a survey conducted by http://www.patheos.com/ and it is shows what their survey pool prays about. It can be pretty selfish, and it just proves that people are willing to let those who actually need the help, and so it goes back to the last quote of the comic strip, "We're sorry to earn that you soon will be dead, but thought you may find this slightly Macabre, we prefer your extinction to the loss of our job." There are always people who have more power or resources over others that will try to put them down in the sake of their own success.