America is not simply the land in which we live. It is a unique group of people that have grown together over four centuries and which has a unique culture and heritage. The land does not create the people, but the people create the land. Yet the conventional wisdom says that American dirt is magic in that it turns Third World peasants into industrious Americans through a simple trick of geography.
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