One thing is for sure.
You would have to be blind as a bat not to notice this and see this coming over the last 10, 20, 30, 40 years in America.
I have witnessed case after case of (particuarly Asian) immigrants, even dirt-poor, scared refugees fleeing chaos, courageously coming into the USA with very little, and moving up the ladder at astonishing speed.
ON the other hand, I saw Americans who came from five or six generations of Americans already here, on their fat asses, only putting in 9-5 M-F, couch potatoes, dumbed down and seduced by credit-cards and "Dancing With The Stars", and then complaining when life (and more industrious people) passed them by.
It's the turtle and the hare isnt it?
I just guess some people are destined to watch "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire". And then are are others who are just destined to work hard, not complain, and BECOME one.