Generosity In American Culture

With the holiday’s drawing near a close, families have contributed various amounts of energy seeking to make it the best for their friends and family. During the holiday’s generosity is demonstrated through gift giving, giving back through community service, contributing money to charity and making it the best holiday you possibly can for your friends and family. What some fail to see is that the holidays isn’t about how much you spend on a person or what gift you gave them it is about spending time with your family and especially dwelling on what occurred in the past year. American culture displays more generosity during the holiday season as seen with statistics, videos, and through acknowledging random acts of kindness.

During the holiday season, there are some who aren’t as fortunate as everyone else, they don’t have anyplace to stay and they live outside in the cold weather. Homeless people aren’t provided with the opportunity to buy gifts for their
Kids could be perceived as the greediest out of everyone because they are the ones with the page long Christmas lists. Kids are known to throw fits when they aren’t given the gifts they wanted as seen in (Source F). But these kids as some may call them the Millennials are the most giving out of everyone according to Christine Bell. Men between 18 and 34 are the most likely to increase the amount of their donations over the holiday season (Source D). Therefore the statistics display more generosity than greed over the holiday season.

American culture displays more generosity during the holiday season as seen with statistics, videos, and through acknowledging random acts of kindness. The more people realize and acknowledge the generosity going on during the holiday season the more likely the generosity will spread into others giving the economy a boost and putting a smile on people’s