A. <em>Tahereh Saffarzadeh's authorial point of view would be different if she had been born in the United States.</em> Being born in Israel and having lived in Iran for years before leaving to England and then to the United States, her vision about Persian culture and Islamic religion is no doubt different from that of a U.S. born citizen. Those societal aspects must be ingrained within her education and formation, making her point of view of the subject more personal and perhaps less conflicted than it would be if her was born in the U.S. (the relations between both cultures being so conflicted for sure have an influence on the citizens of both places and cultures).
Answer:
I'll say it's selfishness and a lack of empathy
Explanation:
The only thing that would stop humans from being compassionate to others and helping them would be selfishness and lack of empathy.
This is because, humans mostly do things for their benefit and without empathy they fail to understand what the other person is passing through