This is a boatload of pop culture brainwashed hullabaloo spewed by a foreigner.
The basis of the American work ethic is in dreaming. Clearly, you've chosen to disregard the centuries of European, African, Oriental and S./Central American slavery, ritual sacrifice, imperialism and almost constant war and subjugation.
But, you know - the intentional racism instilled by the English must be the lingering driver of American commerce and ambition.
I'm an American. Pretending that New World slavery was not of a different, more brutal character than others is a white supremacist talking point and I'm not really here for it. Try something else.
The basis of the American work ethic is in dreaming. Clearly, you've chosen to disregard the centuries of European, African, Oriental and S./Central American slavery, ritual sacrifice, imperialism and almost constant war and subjugation.
But, you know - the intentional racism instilled by the English must be the lingering driver of American commerce and ambition.