Aspergering out with a friend, who recently suffered an awful car accident and has as a result re-evaluated his life drastically, the discussion came around to overpopulation. This somehow got around to how China is a critically organized society, while the United States was basically formed under agrarian conditions to be as disorganized as efficiently possible.
There's much that can be disputed about that analysis but I think people of all stripes can agree that freedom was foremost in the minds of America's founders, far above unity, equality or even community.