why is modesty so rare in American culture?

this is a generalization ...lots of confidence little talent (how it looks from out side America)

I agree with you, and have an opinion. I think that, as we "finessed" the ideal of "freedom", we passed the stopping point, and have approached the ridiculous. It used to be that there were just certain ways one could appear in public. There were certain unwritten rules. Then that was challenged. And it was decided that it was an "infringement" on peoples "rights" to insist that they be dressed a certain way in public. Then it was a further "infringement" to do this, that or the other.

It's a slow degeneration in the name of freedom. I have raised my 21 year old daughter to be modest. Others have not. Why? Because they can get away with it.

I firmly believe in the old adage "Leave something to the imagination"

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