Originally Posted by latinasojourn

there is something to this hypothesis, but not for the exact reasons the author suggests.

if you are well-traveled you know that america is a different place, and american culture is very success oriented.

and here is a plausible explanation:

america is a young country, only about 230 years old.

and who are the people that make up "america"? well, except for the native indians, they are people that had the balls to get on a ship and leave their native lands, and risk their life to try something new.

and these people had children.

so the genetic pool of america is vastly different from older cultures and nation states.

risk takers, yes. and the decendants of risk takers. and not just WASPs, all races and culture who came to america as immigrants.

contrast these immigrants with slaves who came to america unwillingingly. different genetics, they were mostly fuckups in west africa, and in america 175 years later, they are still mostly fuckups.

of course in a few hundred years things will be more homogenized, but you guys can talk trash all you want. yankee ingenuity put a man on the moon, invented large scale commercial air travel, the skyscraper, and a million other things that the world depends on.

and yankee ingenuity will find dear old osama, and put him out of his misery also.