[Phillip Augustus]

by the way, Europe was hardly "sucking" when Europeans were coming to America. I urge to review your history books in greater detail. When some Europeans were coming to America in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, the Continent (and America, too, of course) was busy maintaining, and adding to, the greatest culture ever known to mankind.

[discostu]

Let's see, potato famine, bunch of wars, revolutions, economic collapses all over the place, massive polution (ever read about London's black snows in the 19th century, there was so much soot in the air it condensed and fell to the ground). Europe was seriously hosed. Especially in the 1880 to 1924 period that marks the big immigration boom.