Another important difference - Americans are the most charitable people in the world, also because they not are heavily taxed, while Europeans are not because their mentality tells them the government will take care of their neighbor and they don't need to bother.. "the bigger the government, the smaller the individual" - when they government takes away people's choices of being charitable with their money by overtaxing them, they make the people self-centered, not caring, not making decisions about own contributions and how they are spent.. that's why this election is the battle of our lifetime, we need to outline the differences between the American values (which I just described - power to the individual vs the government) vs the left wing values.. the government we have now are extremely left-wing, thank God the majority of Americans still not.. and we need to keep articulating the difference to them..