In America, religion is considered important.
However, this religiosity is more about individual salvation than helping those in need.
From this individualistic worldview, Americans believe individuals control their own lives.
This individualism is extended to national isolationism where we believe in only helping our own country.
This individualism goes beyond moral principles and touches on a sense of selfish entitlement to interfere with others, even though we show little desire to actually help them.
American’s love individualism in all forms and have faith that individuals can solve their own problems (a convenient rationalization for a country that causes so much misery around the world and allows so much misery to continue in its own borders). Despite this individualism, actual data shows individual Americans have one of the lowest rates of social mobility in the developed world.