Many questions, no answers
The stereotypes we may harbor don't always hold out.
If we don't search, for the underlying cause and fix that, we are condemned to repeat it. This has nothing to do with "oh poor them"---this has everything to do with some serous effort to learn from this experience.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis