Comparing Rich Citizens of New York in the 1920s: Attitudes on Philanthropy :: American America History

Comparing generative Citizens of New York in the 1920s Attitudes on Philanthropy How did the generative of Hudson Valley and Harlem New York differ in bearing patterns and personal attitudes towards al-Qaeda ownership during 1920 to 1925? Even with the distinction of race betwixt Hudson valley rich and Harlem rich be the two groups in leastwise similar? The rich of Hudson Valley did not feel the need nor the indebtedness to be philanthropical towards their under class counterparts. They were desensitized towards the needs of the poor and un rose-coloreds of society. The Harlem rich however, felt up a moral and spiritual obligation to help those less fortunate then themselves to become more prosperous so that they could aspire to the joys of home ownership. Only if they felt the individuals were worthy of their help.What were the Hudson Valley rich like? They were do up of two classes of people the freebooter Barons and the Mayflower rich. In The Rich and The Super - Rich Ferdinand Lundberg writes that the Robber Barons gained their wealth thought villainy. He writes hatred The Highroad to Wealth. Either sound instinct or certain companionship led Kefauver, Kennedy, Vanderbilt and J.P. Morgan to link notorious under world figures with the business world. For crime is a historically established highroad to American fortune building. If primitively men came into the upper propertied class by means of rough crime, it would seem that later criminal practiti starrs might be heading toward the equivalent dubious salvation. So assiduously and unscrupulously did the earlier fortune-builders work that one might suppose they believed that in attaining wealth they were attaining eternal life. The Mayflower rich considered themselves the true Americans since their families history could be traced all the way back the commencement ceremony Dutch settlers who settled in the Hudson Valley area. They did not accept the Robber Barons with open arms until thei r fortunes over powered the Mayflower rich in comparison. F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote Let me tell you about the very rich. They are assorted from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves.