LOL, civets on a coffee bean binge... it depends on the parents mostly. The incident I was referring to was when I was chaperoning a high school field trip, and one of the kids who ended up in my group (actually, the only one in my group who didn’t decide to give me their cell phone number and run off with whoever was chaperoning their friends) was one of the ‘Lost Boys’ from Sudan (his family has adopted probably 5 or 6 of them by now, all really sweet kids). He knew the ‘fur real’ animals were fake, it was just that the purpose of such an expensive toy in a country where free, abandoned pets were available at every animal shelter was something he didn’t quite understand (and, he had never seen a raccoon before, so he wasn’t quite sure what kind of animal it was).
So, I guess it depends more on the kids’ upbringing - any kids has the potential to run around a toy store like a ‘Civet on a coffee bean binge’ (great analogy, btw) - I’ll admit, my friends and I might have done that once, but our parents never let that happen again, LOL. But, I’ve found that in general, kids who get everything handed to them, whether they’re immigrants or American-born fourth-generation welfare spawn, have no respect for others property, whereas kids who have to work for things and have been taught well, again whether they’re third-world or American or whatever, generally don’t run around destroying stuff.
So true. When you don’t work for something you cannot appreciate it. If I had to bet I say you are or were a teacher. I am right no?