Imperfection

When imperfection occurs in America, fault is often put on government and elsewhere because nobody wants to accept personal responsibility. In America and Americans it states “We are able to believe that our government is weak, stupid, overbearing, dishonest, and inefficient, and at the same time we are deeply convinced that it is the best government in the world” (Steinbeck). This explains how we see our government as a huge failure, yet we contradict ourselves by saying we have so much confidence in it and try to convince other countries that it is the best. In Does America Still Exist, Rodriguez says how “Relatives are, in case, surprised when the child begins loosing old ways” or “immigrant parents have sent their children to school to acquire the skills to survive... children return home with a voice his parents barely recognized or understood, couldn’t trust, and didn’t like.” The government does not seek to change them or take their culture away that comes from them choosing to forget their own traditions. America gives choices to those who are immigrants. In the Triangle Shirtwaist Company incident, owners blamed the government for not adequately supplying firefighters and police. The owners who locked up their workers chose to blame anybody but themselves. Society today never wants to admit they are wrong. We put blame on the government because it is easier than dealing with the consequences ourselves. We search for perfection and when that’s not accomplished we make excuses and shift the blame elsewhere. Once we accept our mistakes and faults, we can ultimately learn tolerance and appreciation of the things we can not