Title: “American Privilege” Is Open to All | by Chad E Cooper | Thrive Global | Medium
Headings: “American Privilege” Is Open to All
“American Privilege” Is Open to All
By Chad E Cooper

Content: A country where having a lifestyle of discretionary income and living above survival is offered as the norm, or at least it should be the goal. In order to achieve and generate these privileges, is the concept that you must create, not consume in order to make it possible. Even in survival, you must have a mindset to create and get resourceful, but too many today confuse American privilege with being comfortable and consuming. Immigrants who have come to this country either seem not to know these crazy rules of consuming vs creating that second and third generation Americans subscribe too or maybe they just ignore them and thrive anyway. One great example of an immigrant culture that understood American privilege, were the Japanese soldiers during WWII. Several served in the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team and its predecessor, the 100th Infantry Battalion. Making up over one-third of the population of Hawaii, Japanese Americans were among the first to enlist. They were also the first res-ponders to aid the injured after the attack on Pearl Harbor. These Americans were proud and became some of the most decorated solders in history. They could have used the excuse that their people suddenly had been imprisoned in camps, and their families had lost everything, money, homes and businesses due to the crazy response of the US government after Pearl Harbor.