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[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] Because the Brits and the Americans essentially killed all the native populations, destroying old cultures and habits and building new ones from scratch. Instead, the Spanish and Portuguese wanted to convert the indigenous populations to Catholicism, whic obviously you couldn't do if you massacred them. So what resulted was a mixture of cultures, for good (over half of all Lat Am inhabitants are at least part indigenous) and for bad.[/quote]
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