Quote Originally Posted by Sol View Post
In much if not most degree because of immigrants. When you destroy other countries, rob them and hence have more money, you become more attractive, may pay more and get gifted people on this money. That's the main secret of USA advanced technology.
This is a nation of immigrants, obviously.

My family lines that don't lead to native Americans lead to immigrants, dozens of them, clearly seeking refuge and opportunity here.

The United States was an isolationist nation until World War II, and many Americans disagreed that we should be involved in that war at all. In the years leading up to and after that war, we took in many immigrants who were fleeing that very conflict. A lot of our great scientists and artists were Jews escaping pogroms and the Shoah in eastern and western Europe.