It is the lack of it, which is the root of the problem.
This race was born without it.
You can beat them, drown them, bury them in mines, make them toil over building a 5500-mile long stone wall, ship them to foreign countries as slaves, conquer them, silence them, shoot them...they will not rise up. They will not protest. They will not make a sound.
And that's why when they take up positions of authority, they will in turn make their own people work 18 hours a day,
make you work on weekends, toss you a pile of work and not teach you how to do it and then giving you sh*t for handing in something below their expectations, call you up on a holiday pushing you to hand-in work you said you will hand in.
It's all because they were never given any respect.
And therefore they don't know how to give any. And those underneath don't know how to speak for themselves and speak for their own rights. Because they don't know that they have any.
People here are driven by fear. They don't speak up because of fear. They will toil and slave away to meet expectations because of fear. And those at the top don't realise how suppressed and bitter those below are feeling because they don't let it show, and yet they manage to meet those expectations.
Perhaps it all boils down to history. The centuries of repression and war and hardship and turmoil has produced a tough, hardworking, thick-skinned race. For decades they have been torn apart and colonised by the west. Today, though not used and abused by foreign powers anymore, they suppress their own people.
It's time to rise up. But it probably won't happen. And that is why so many people leave this place eventually. Maybe it's my turn too.