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One thing about American behavior or if you will, American "Culture", especially among white American males, that irritates me is how they do stupid, dangerous things with cars, motorcycles, bikes, or skateboard around you and don't appear to be accountable for their own personal safety or considerate of the safety of others. On the issue of volunteerism, their irresponsible acts should never have happened. Instead, after their grand, annoying act of stupidity, they carry themselves like: if you want me to stop this, then "make me." It's no wonder that we, or I, have to restraint ourselves from our initial reaction towards violence of wanting to punch them out. It's no wonder that statist will use the "make it a law" soft fascism approach to retaliate or put an end to this behavior. In Mideast, Asian, or Slavic cultures where most are more than 200 years old, people from those nations know better and are considerate. America not having a culture is one of the reasons for so much violence. American lawyers and politicians like to describe the U.S. as a country of laws. That's a way of saying: because we lack a culture to mold our citizens into a standard of conduct, we instead write a a law defining citizen conduct. There are so many laws in the U.S. that you can't help but breaking some going about your daily business of surviving. The virtues of religion can help fill the void where a lack of culture exists. Another cultural quality that it instills is humbleness. Because the U.S. has no culture, its people are arrogant, obnoxious, argumentative, and quick to let you have a piece of their mind (their violent side of the mind) should they become angry. When Americans are uncomfortable, or are forced to wait for service, they start to be nasty and vocal, like the response of an infant. Other cultures will demonstrate virtues of patience, and "hold their tongue." In doing so, unexpected inconveniences can be resolved and put behind and the relationship between customer and service provider can continue to flourish. With American customers, bridges are burnt and never rebuilt. If the U.S. wants a turn around both economically and socially, it would be well worth the time and humiliation to learn culture from those cultures that once were the butt of the jokes of Friday night standup comedians. In doing so, the American "culture of violence" can adopt legitimacy and respect with the other older cultures of the world and the positive improvements in society will follow.