Being born in the USA is a lucky event, but it's not 100% luck. As a nation of immigrants, it's likely that one's ancestors took great risks and busted their c

Being born in the USA is a lucky event, but it's not 100% luck. As a nation of immigrants, it's likely that one's ancestors took great risks and busted their collective asses to get to and succeed in America. To the extent that one inherits the genes of these immigrants, being born in the USA can partially be attributed to "your" hard work, where "you" is defined as a collection of genetic patterns. Of course it's not all rosy: many early American settlers emigrated to flee religious persecution, which is another way of saying that they were fanatic nutjobs. In effect, Europe deported its religous fundamentalism to the gene pool of the US, and the effects can be seen to this day. Lucky Europe!