The statement "business leaders, entrepreneurs and workers were the most dynamic and innovative in the world." is completely true. You will be in denial if you

The statement "business leaders, entrepreneurs and workers were the most dynamic and innovative in the world." is completely true. You will be in denial if you do not accept that. I'm not American and I accept it. If you go to Silicon Valley you will see more Indians, Chinese or European people than Americans.(engineering in USA have 60% foreigners) There are economic "hubs" where people that do things well love to go as they meet other experts and learn a lot, and could make money doing what they love. Like it or hate it,but a lot of these hubs remain in America. USA is only 4% of the population, but represents 50% of the economy of the world. If you are creative or innovative in Argentina maybe you could survive as you see only corrupt people can earn money, or you could travel to the USA and get a lot of money. In South America you can not innovate because there is no middle class, as simple as this is. There is only super rich people that own properties the size of the state of California, or those that have very little. No market for you. Something similar happens in Africa, when tribal leaders(or kings like Mohamed of Morocco) own anything as "fathers for the benefit of the tribe, or country". In Europe and Asia population is old and society values "security" and innovators are not good considered if they fail just once(and innovators by definition fail a lot).