article_snippet.sent: her described the U.S. as a "land of orphans.
article_snippet.sent: When it was finally time to rebuild, there were effectively no bootstraps with which the country could pull the country up again.
article_snippet.sent: In an impoverished country -- one of Asia's poorest, albeit with 7% predicted economic growth this year -- most young people seemed to be focused on getting ahead than looking back, she said.
article_snippet.sent: It is very miserable for all of us," an even older woman says.