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How about making your enemies become your friends and join your army to crush those that enjoy the lamentations of your women 
US clearly has the best infrastructure for a motivated immigrant to succeed.
It obviously also has a slave-descended class that is disadvantaged and struggling, but every other group fares well.
Such as…
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Let’s just say to a geneticist like yourself “The gene pool is kind of narrow, so options are limited” 
Luck.
You can’t pick where, when, or from whom are you born. And that determines EVERYTHING.
You can only control by a small extent what you will have or not have. But if opportunities don’t show up, they don’t show up.
So don’t belittle people who are poor. They didn’t necessarily choose to be.
Actually, GK incorporated a LOT of what he took over, bringing translators from new locales with him, according to the book I’m now reading.
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I was thinking of someone more recent, but yeah. 
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