"patriotism is a maggot in their heads." this view strikes me in a weird way. I have always known patriotism to be a good thing, not a "maggot"- bad thing. Who says that patriotism causes racism?

mindfulness brings us patience... no matter what age we are.  G- what wasn't talked about was how the kids that didn't eat the marshmallows restrained themselves from eating, this was the mind set that the kids had (they had a goal and intended to work for it, training their minds) R- repetitions between the different kids, each were given the same circumstances over and over A- the question about what the parents would do didn't seem to fit because the kids were the ones being tested for their mindfulness control B- the opposing idea is eating the marshmallow right away, uncontrolled mindfulness, or the debate to eat the marshmallow because a kid became too impatient