Did Roosevelt's upbringing, background and character make it easy for him to understand the concerns and fears of ordinary Americans?

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Question 2: Did Roosevelt's upbringing, background and character make it easy for him to understand the concerns and fears of ordinary Americans?

It is my belief that there are two possible ways of answering the question did Roosevelt's upbringing, background and character make it easy for him and to understand the concerns and fears of ordinary Americans? The answers are simply yes or yes and No. This is because there are many parts of an Roosevelt's life that did not made easy for him to understand the concerns and fears of ordinary American. So I'll have to answer this question with yes and no.

One of my main reasons for answering no is how can Roosevelt who was born into all wealthy family (in terms of land owned), privileged, aristocratic, well-connected and financially secure family ever understand anything about an ordinary American? Roosevelt grew up on an estate mixing with only similar families, he had a close relationship to with his mother he was very protective of him and very ambitious for him. Possibly any part of the young life and help them understand ordinary Americans was the ability to empathise with adults and others.

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Roosevelt's early education that he had at home instead of at school meant that he didn't mix what and people his own age of. This also would not have helped him to understand ordinary Americans because the majority of American you would have thought didn't have private tutelage instead they would have gone to school with other people their age. Being there and to deal with different people from an early age but Roosevelt didn't. The only part of his later education that helped him understand the concerns and fears ordinary Americans was that Harvard the school that he ...

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