First World Patterns and Problems

Useless and Unmotivated

Generation X is helpless. We've been taught that we do not have to earn anything we're given, and anything we want can and will be handed to us. We have been sheltered and babied beyond belief. The term "First World Problems" is more than a condition in our country's youth, it is an attitude. 

We forget that the reason we have so much prosperity and influence in the world is because we have stood with our backs to a suffering world in many ways, focusing our attention on the next big hype that sweeps our country, like so many have before. 

We even experience poverty in our country differently. A recent Heritage study came up with some intriguing facts about the "poor" in America:

The study also showed that the average nutritional consumption was virtually the same between the poor and middle-class in America which is well above the recommended norm in most cases. 

So sit back and relax American youth, just like everyone expects you to. You can also stand up out of the lap of luxury you sit in and look around at the world, where not everyone is sitting by a pool drinking lemonade and eating bon bons. 

First World Problems from Third World Haitians

In 2010, the island nation of Haiti experienced a catastrophic earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale. It is estimated that anywhere from 230,00 to 316,000 people were killed and around 300,000 people were injured. In the last four years, over $800 million dollars have been given as relief aid to various charities and relief organizations. 

People are still suffering in Haiti, feel free to donate to the needs of these people here.