Are you people in this thread for real? Or just out of touch? I grew up in a working class neighborhood, with a father who has working class morals but works a white collar job. He and many other parents taught my friends and I to help out the old, the sick, and to lend a hand whenever needs be. Granted, many of the kids I grew up with are loosing touch with that uprising because they lack ambition and an insight into the future however they will eventually mature into a similar person of who their parents are.
I must say, Americans between the ages of 30-55 are very nice and generous to their friends and neighbors. My father and I still to this day shovel our elderly neighbors driveway so her husband can safely get to the hospital for kidney dialysis. We would be up at 5am to shovel over a foot of snow so the transport vehicle can back into the driveway to then shovel again a few hours later after another foot of snow accumulated atop of what we already shoveled. Now that my father has a snowblower, he still takes care of our elderly neighbors but also lends it out to younger, more capable neighbors just because it's the right thing to do.
Many Americans do this. Whether it's pooling money with the neighborhood to buy a piece of equipment to lending a hand to someone new in the neighborhood to make them feel welcome. I can't speak for everyone in here, but this happens all the time in a small rural town 5 miles inland from the shore in New Jersey. I honestly feel a lot the people saying otherwise are either from a large city, or just generally out of touch because the media focuses on a very small minority of shitheads. The best advice I can give is to focus on your community, and condense it even more to your specific neighborhood. It is amazing how generous and helpful neighbors and people in your general neighborhood are. It's only unnoticeable if you don't play your part.
