The American understanding

Americans have a different understanding of hardships. They think hardships are related to material goods. They look at Afghanistan or people from other parts of the world and think their lives are hard. But there is another truth. The Afghans or people from developing countries (calling these countries third world suddenly is out of fashion) look at the Americans and say they have hard lives. You could very easily do without an ipod but the rich family life that the Afghan children enjoy are not so pervasive in the US. Priorities are different for different cultures and that is what shows up when you meet a new culture. A long way to go before people truly understand each other without prejudice so that the human race can benefit by meeting each other.