Who fucking cares what their nations were like OVER 200 YEARS AGO! This isn’t a history test, this is real life, right now, for the people currently alive. The American dream of anyone becoming anything is as unrealistic today as a chimney sweep becoming the Duke of York was in Victorian England.

“This has always been a nation free of the suffocating class divisions of Europe, where the station one was born into determined the station one would die in.”