My 2 cents :
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The US is an achievement based culture. It always has been.
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SO is Europe --I'm an anthropologist (been for the past 30 years) I yet have to find a culture which is not based on some kind of achievement
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It's an artifact of having an open frontier for 200+ years (circa 1650 - 1890). If you failed, you simply moved out to the edge and started over.
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SO was Europe until ca. 1300... then it filled up...