Disproof to your above claim: The US soccer team is mostly out of first-gen recent immigrants, or people that were given a passport just to play here. I think

Disproof to your above claim: The US soccer team is mostly out of first-gen recent immigrants, or people that were given a passport just to play here. I think a fair-er comparison is of Noble prize laureates by ethnicity or country where they were born. You probably will see a lot more even distribution. Americans are not any smarter then, lets say Europeans. It is just they have more means. You will probably see a great correlation to economic output and noble price laureates because: 1. Richer countries attract smart people. You are smart, you probably are smart enough to be given great jobs/research positions and the best places to live in this earth, which happen countries that are rich already. 2. To do nobel price research, you probably need a lot of financial/instutinational backing, which you are most likely to find in rich countries..