The Reason So Many Americans Are Ungrateful Why are there so many grievances and not more gratitude in America? Would understanding our place in history lead to more realistic expectations and, in the process, bring forth more gratitude? In his book The Rise and Fall of American Growth, Robert Gordon points out how little progress was made over hundreds of years He writes, “the annual
Gratitude and Reconciliation for Americans: It Shouldnt Take . . . We need to create a culture of gratitude, not grievance “Finally,” he notes, “we need to work toward arts and ideologies that will last—cultural input that people will recognize and relate to fifty or a hundred years from now You can see in music what has lasted Even the Beatles have made a long-term contribution
Can Gratitude Save Us? - Common Reader Instead of being grateful that we have savings and can pay our bills, I slide into abstract and hypothetical worries What if this or that crisis comes? What if we have not saved enough, and what is enough?
The American Miracle: Promoting Gratitude, Not Guilt Those who reject the trendy argument that America’s unique good fortune stems from the nation’s uniquely bad behavior, tend to turn to “happy accidents” as the most convenient explanation for our disproportionate blessings
The Death of Gratitude in the American Classroom My real concern is that gratitude may no longer be part of the lives of young Americans They seem to believe that their blessings—technology that is the stuff of science fiction, unparalleled wealth, unfathomable comforts and forms of communication, bountiful freedom, and opportunities unrivaled in human history—are owed to them
How Grateful are Americans? - Greater Good But how often, and in what circumstances, do people actually say thanks? The results reveal more evidence for a phenomenon sometimes called the gratitude gap—given how often they feel it, and how important they think it is, Americans do not express gratitude very often