We are being squeezed with RECORD fuel, utility, and food prices...and they want to call Americans not giving donor fatigue??I call bullshit. I call it NOT being able to give. The same reason that food banks supplies are low, donations to non-profits are low, retail sales are down, the mortgage crisis, record numbers of automobiles being repossessed...cmon AP...have the courage to call it for what it is. Americans are TOO BROKE to give to anyone else.
http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/05/20/49535/>>>snip
NEW YORK - The numbers are almost too large to fathom, so many Americans stop trying. As bodies pile up in disaster after global disaster, even the most sympathetic souls can turn away.
Charities know this as “donor fatigue,” but it might be more accurately described as disaster fatigue - the sense that these events are never-ending, uncontrollable and overwhelming. Experts say it is one reason Americans have contributed relatively little so far to victims of the Myanmar cyclone and China’s earthquake.
Ironically, the more bad news there is, the less likely people may be to give.
“Hearing about too many disasters makes some people not give at all, when they would have if it had been just one disaster,” says Michal Ann Strahilevitz, who teaches marketing at Golden Gate University and specializes in the factors at play in charitable giving.
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A number of factors may be at play in the slow American response, including a lack of sympathy for the repressive governments involved, doubts about whether aid will get through, and an inclination to save pennies because of shaky economic times at home.
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