America 250: Individualists and communitarians at once

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Two kinds of people populated Europe back in the day, a German politician once told me.

Most Europeans were dutiful citizens, rule followers, whose chief virtue was dependability.

A smaller group were untamed, ambitious risk-takers, the politician said.

She concluded: “The second group all got on a boat and went to America.” This European founding […]

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