If you want to find a place in which industrialization, progress and opportunities are available to everyone, look at North America during the 1920's.
After winning the World War I, the American patriotism was higher than ever before. Ford's Model T was just one of many examples of how progress was now available for common people. Technological improvements and a streghtened economy were the basis for a time in which people were simply happy; happy about being Americans and joyful about working for their country.
During this decade, imperial projects such as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building were starting to come true. Such monumental projects all represented the effort of thousands of Americans and, moreover, of thousands of immigrants, all of them working toward one goal: Building a true Land of Opportunities.
The best of the world's creative spirit was living in America. Even the mobsters, for example, developed such a solid and progress-based structure, that today we remember that decade as Capone's golden era.
In conclusion, even though the 1920's gave birth to devastating events such as the Great Depression and the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, the spirit of a new, modern and capitalist America was carved deep inside people's minds and that same spirit is what guides the U.S. now and what will be guiding the private and public iniciatives for years and years to come.
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