To the contrary, if our popular media (e.g., television, film, music) are any measure, people worship at the altar of "me;" narcissism, egotism, vanity, pride, entitlement and disinterest toward others are attributes to which we should aspire.
Drivers complain about bikers who ignore traffic rules or hog narrow roads, phenomena some irritated motorists attribute to feelings of entitlement or moral superiority.
At the same time, other applications provide user account information such as account identifiers and entitlement information like access privileges and related attributes (e.g. owner or description).
For example, a Somali refugee woman with no entitlement to welfare (apart from food vouchersa) attributed one of her symptoms, tiredness, to her diet but underpinning this was a lack of finance to buy good 'halal' food.
Talk about a sense of entitlement: upon arriving in town today, Mike Krzyzewski immediately attributed all those ball caps and sweatshirts with the letter K on them to a massive outpouring of respect and love for him.
Transport costs are also triple those in New York, which the EIU attributes to "Singapore's complex Certificate of Entitlement system" – the ten-year license that drivers must purchase to buy a vehicle - which makes car prices "excessive".
Poorer recovery outcomes for workers injured in a work setting, as opposed to a non-work setting, are commonly attributed to differences in financial gain via entitlement to compensation by injury setting (ie. workers compensation schemes).
The World Bank attributes this to gender biases and parental ignorance regarding entitlement under India's Person with Disability act of 1995.
They ignored his less charming attributes – his lack of curiosity about others, his sense of entitlement, his tendency to cry and sulk when he lost – because he displayed such promise at moving pieces around the board.
