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^ This is actually a serious issue. A demoralized people produces fewer notable individuals who will go out on a limb and shine.
Scotland lost (again) at soccer recently, against a Belgium team who are one of the best in the world right now. Afterwards, the Scottish pundits and talking heads were musing over the question as to why most people (outside of Scotland) haven't heard of most of today's Scottish players, when the Scottish players of 30 or 40 years ago were household names. (There's a Macbeth reference there somewhere, but I haven't got time to think of it).
And the answer is...(although the soccer pundits wouldn't have thought of it)...that the white working class have been demoralized, and less inclined to showcase their skills and shine as individuals. Scotland is still heavily white working class, and its people have stagnated and/or declined. Belgium, and many of the other top teams in the world right now, have had much more immigration, and so are picking up individuals from aspiring, upwardly-mobile peoples. Belgium's population is little more than twice the size of Scotland's, yet its soccer team is light years ahead. Because its people have a different perspective.
Iceland's population is 340,000 , wholly white, and their soccer team is doing well, I hear you say. But they're not exposed to the same forces that western European nations are. They don't have a media and an education system beating them down, telling them they're racist etc etc.
TL;DR Confident peoples produce confident individuals.
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