Quote Originally Posted by J Wolfsberger View Post
You might also consider that the United States is the result of several hundreds of years of self selection for people from Europe who did not much care for European social structure.

It's funny how many shapes this nonsensical idea has. Only one is in common; the nationality of the people sharing such an idea.

There was no self-selection.

The felons, the losers, the hungry Irish, the African captives of war, a handful greedy guys intent on robbing natives early on, a couple of his/her majesty's servants from UK/France/Spain and a few fugitives make up the bulk of the immigrating ancestors of the modern U.S. population.


Almost nobody emigrated from Europe because of dissent with social structures which a young European of today would recognise.