[cheetos]

America, since its founding, has been an experiment in extreme individualism over collectivism. We worship capitalism over all else. Even a whisper of government programs that help the poor are vilified as communist. Selfishness and immorality is a natural consequence of that. Things won't change until our culture completely changes.

[b6]

People in the US are extremely generous, by any measure.

[pas]

But not effective. Not rational. Sure, they help their neighbors, but they hate those Others at the end of the town/state/country.