[RightWhale]

“The Frontier does not have a good reputation in Europe…

The Frontier is a European concept. America is a European concept. Of course only 5% of Europeans ever act on such concepts--ignoring such oddities as Napoleon, Hitler, the Crusades, Mussolini, Alexander, Caesar, and the rest of the multitude who populate European history's more active pages.

[CasearianDaoist]

It was a concepts of the 17th through the 18th century "Europeans" - not the current crop of "Europeans." In this sense America is now more "European" than Europe. It is they who have "moved on," not we.