Comment by no_wizard

A young country that inherited old values, cultural norms, traditions and ethos.

It’s not like the US rose in a vacuum. It sees impressive on its face and to some extent I believe it is, but it has more to do with being a resource rich nation (lots of plentiful raw material within our borders) and the fact the last time we had a foreign invasion was during the war of 1812.

We aren’t some near unbelievable anomaly of history, we built on our British roots