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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]USA was settled and populated by Europe's failures
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You are totally wrong.

The USA was settled by Europe's hustlers, go getters and dreamers.

The lazy people without ambitioned stayed behing.[/quote]

Well, there is something to be said for the people who got on the boats. They had a higher tolerance for risk.
[b]They also had nothing to lose[/b]. So I think there's a combination of failure due to primogeniture culture and hustle to see what's on the other side.[/quote]

I know this is a popular narrative, but this is not generally true. Lots of immigrants came to the US with capital to invest from the very start. Vonnegut addresses this in some of his writing from the German perspective. They had plenty to lose, but they saw the US as a good investment opportunity with greater freedoms than Europe.[/quote]

Well, yes, ‘free’ land and slave labour did create some pretty fabulous investment returns. Some of my family left Napoleon-controlled Netherlands to exploit land and slaves on American plantations. Does that make them hustlers?[/quote]

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