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It's romanticized because the majority of Americans had someone in their family throw caution to the wind and get on a boat and cross the Atlantic with zero kno
by huffmsa 7y ago
It's romanticized because the majority of Americans had someone in their family throw caution to the wind and get on a boat and cross the Atlantic with zero knowledge of what was going to happen.
- misterbishop 7y agomany slaves.
- village-idiot 7y agoThat seems pretty silly to me. My family has such stories, from the 1860s. Why should I lionize the self-madeness of someone from almost 200 years ago and pretend that the same social factors are at work?
- coldtea 7y agoWell, that was at a time when those places where at war, famine, turmoil, and the US economy was rising. Easy to "throw caution to the wind" when all you have is some small plot of land struck by drought.
- huffmsa 7y agoEven easier when you know you can go back to whatever job you're currently doing if your entrepreneurial idea doesn't pan out.
- spaced-out 7y agoAnd you'd think Americans would think fondly of people who try and do that today, but instead we separate them from their kids then throw them all in internment camps.