We are privileged for being born American. What luck.

Corollary, we feel entitled to what we have since we were born to it, rather than seeing it as the privilege it actually is.

Those of us who lived in the Third World, sub-saharan west Africa in my case, see the luxuries. Standard americans see normalcy.

I used to teach my kids we were rich when we were on food stamps - We still had a washer and dryer in the house. I mean, really, that was not poverty.

Another corrolary is that when people don't have as much as others here in richdom USA, they (the poorer) think they are actually poor.

I had an Ivorian friend look around and say, Only in America are the poor FAT.