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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
This is actually a belief that some Europeans including myself share. In that the formation of the USA had quite violent beginnings. The early settlers and the frontier mentality, the war of independence, a civil war, the wild west and then participating in two world wars and two wars in Asia. Now a lot of countries in Europe have had similiar ocurrences down their history, but I don't think any can boast at having all these drastic conflicts in such a short historical time period! Also the USA is still actually quite a young country compared to the old world.
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What about France? They've certainly been involved in a hell of a lot of drastic wars and violence in the past 200 years or so.
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
I noticed this as well, as by the later part of the 19th century the USA was both the fastest growing and probably biggest economy in the world, meaning that the immigrants had long since settled in.
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I believe the late 19th and early 20th centuries were when we had our highest levels of immigration.