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I doubt either scenario. The great thing about America is that in addition to being the Land of Opportunity to many people, it is also the land of self-invention/reinvention and the land of second chances. Despite its history of racial, gender, ethnic, religious issues it is still one of the FEW places where your past doesn't matter as much as your economic participation in a relatively open market... Very powerful promise and reality considering the rest of the world still has to contend with caste, the past, and other "atavistic" bullshit that holds them back.
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