8. Impatience
Search Scale: 9/10
Solution: Hold your horses.
In the book Bringing Up Bebe, which compares American parenting to French, it talks about how American babies become spoiled because their mothers run to their side the instant they start crying. This is just one of many examples of Americans and their constant desire for instant gratification (for more examples, see junk food, clickbait media, Disney fastpass and this article from NPR).
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