The answer points to ingenuity due to a lack of resources which is susceptible to obsolescence.
School in the USA does a lot more than just educate, for instance child protection services and employment. The USA also takes everyone, specifically the violent and malicious, due to compassion.
The USA suffered:
- multiple World Wars
- a fifty year Cold War that was just as bad
- multiple nuclear standoffs
- horrific terrorism
- black market drug smuggling, probably the gravest problem today
- repeated invasions
- a Civil War which involved foreign intervention
- attempts at colonial occupation
- originally being made as a death camp and penal colony
School in the USA does a lot more than just educate, for instance child protection services and employment. The USA also takes everyone, specifically the violent and malicious, due to compassion.
The USA suffered: - multiple World Wars - a fifty year Cold War that was just as bad - multiple nuclear standoffs - horrific terrorism - black market drug smuggling, probably the gravest problem today - repeated invasions - a Civil War which involved foreign intervention - attempts at colonial occupation - originally being made as a death camp and penal colony