The book says that one important value in the American society is individualism. The common belief in America is that “God helps them who help themselves.” With that they mean that if you work hard you’ll get far in life, but if you’re lazy and you wont get far. Derrick worships this value, he believes very strongly in the self-made man, and as we can see in the movie he hates that some Chinese guy have taken over the local shop and is hiring illegal immigrants as cheap work power, so Derrick and his gang trash th
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