philosophy

Here's an example with America, which confirms what I'm saying. After all, India, Canada, and Australia remained part of the British Empire. But the situation with the USA was different. It was a real melting pot. The most energetic people went there: bandits, heretics, sectarians, and so on. And since they had so much energy, they were able to break away. Other parts of the empire didn't have such a concentration of energetic people.