[Tijeras_Slim]

We just can't expect them to change attitudes in 40 years.

I'd say the attitude has gotten worse under the "Great Society", and that an ingrained sense of entitlement has killed any vestigal spirit of necessity.

[master thesis]

The only thing that united blacks before 1965 was Christianity.

Now a days no one is united under Christianity and you can only blame that on one thing, the info age.

Everyone has had the problem with instant gratification, it would make sense that the poor would be the most effected.