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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And then I look over to europe and see that as bad as the UK and France are doing, they are a lot better off than Spain & Portugal.

Is there something just inherent in Spanish and Portuguese culture that lends to more dysfunction when it comes to general economics and government administration?

If the British colonized mexico and south america, I don't think we would have the same issue we do today.

I think this split reflects Northern European culture vs Southern European culture. [/quote]
I once heard that the regions further away from the equator are more successful, and while there are exceptions, there is a lot to it. Northern v Soithern Europe, as you mention, and Canada/US vs Mexico/CA, but many others too.

The theory is that ancient people needed to be more resourceful to live in colder climates, and thus the population was self-selecting as to whom ventured from the warmer areas, where humans originated, to colder climates.[/quote]

Thats all BS based on white man myth. China and India are for the most part tropical countries and they have been the human history's two longest surviving continuous civilizations. India and China also were the two largest economies throughout human history until about 1800s when plundered resources from Americas and Slave labor brought their economy down. The two Asian giants are back to being the top economies this century, rightfully claiming their place in the top. [/quote]

Yours is just as mythic but not more accurate.[/quote]

You are wrong. India and China have the largest arable land outside the USA. And they have resources to feed their 1 billion people. And when that 1 billion people are educated and are productive they have internal market that is tough to be beaten by any one else.

Why do you think Russia or UK or Egypt or Persia or Greece or France or Rome not able to sustain themselves for thousands of years YET China and India are always around in the same shape or form? NO ONE BUT THEM have sustained their own culture, language, religion for 5000 years. Europe has been christianized, Christianity is Middle east religion. Rest of the world including Africa, Americas,Middle east are all either Christian or Islam, two foreign religions.

Only China and India have not been fully conquered by any foreign powers. They have been invaded(especially India) UT never ever forced to change their culture, religion or language. WHY NOT? Because of their huge size the ones going from outside get absorbed and become part of them. [/quote]

India is catching up in part because of the legal, administrative, economic, and transportation systems the British left behind. Lucky India. Without the British, it would have remained a patchwork of scores of princely states and languages, often locked in conflict. [/quote]

That is hypothetical. Why did India FIGHT BRITISH AS ONE  and not as multiple princely states IF THERE HAD NOT BEEN ONE ENTITY CALLED INDIA. And more importantly Why is India continuing as united?USSR or Yugoslavia or even Czechoslovakia didn't survive as one. India is united because there is a cultural, historic and geographical cohesion. This is possible only because there was a historic united India. Otherwise nations don't stick around and people don't stick around. India is as complex and as big as Europe BUT unlike EUrope India has had united empires for centuries and hence share the same religion, food, culture. THAT IS THE BIG DIFFERENCE.

Learn some history before posting. [/quote]

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