the culture of laziness is a learned behaviour, not a genetic one.
One of my twitter friends is a Nigerian immigrant who came here as a toddler. Her parents are still together and she is unlike most American blacks in a lot of ways. She thinks the American fixation with race is just plain stupid.
Amen to that. I met some African Evangelicals, and they were SHOCKED by the attitude of "blacks" (their term) of African-Americans here.
I am not kidding. Their mouths were open. They were filled with shame and outrage.
There are many, many, many more African immigrants in this country and in Europe that are decidedly not amazing, unless you consider the amount of violent crime they commit or welfare they consume to be amazing. Ask the residents of Minneapolis or Stockholm.
A nation can't make social policy based on the few exceptions.
culture of laziness is a learned behaviour, not a genetic one.
Even if that were true, the Mexicans and Central Americans are hard workers, so we are told, and their countries are rat holes. So it takes more than just hard work to build and maintain a 1st World civilization.