Sri Lanka’s empathy deficit has risen to critically dangerous levels
Monday 19th May 2014
Barack Obama: Empathy deficit among Americans is more dangerous than budget deficit
In 2006, Barack Obama, then a Senator of the US Senate, left an important message with the students when he delivered the commencement speech at USA’s Northwestern University. He said that what was more dangerous in USA was not the Federal Budget Deficit but the emerging ‘Empathy Deficit’ among Americans. Then he defined what he meant by empathy deficit by using an aphorism. That was failure to get into the shoes of another person and see the world through his pains (available at: http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2006/06/barack.html).
In 2006, Barack Obama, then a Senator of the US Senate, left an important message with the students when he delivered the commencement speech at USA’s Northwestern University. He said that what was more dangerous in USA was not the Federal Budget Deficit but the emerging ‘Empathy Deficit’ among Americans. Then he defined what he meant by empathy deficit by using an aphorism. That was failure to get into the shoes of another person and see the world through his pains (available at: http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2006/06/barack.html).