Why was Japan able to recover in a couple years from the nuclear bomb, but Haiti is still a warzone?

The same reason that some former English colonies thrive and are world powers and others can't stop cutting off hands with machetes. Some people just aren't capable of self rule.

Nope! This is not even wrong.

To see the problem, you need to ask a better question: Why are Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which are two halves of the same island and have the same average IQ, doing so differently?

Most of the difference between Haiti and the DR has to do with their very different histories. That history is far more complex and darker than "Well, they kicked out all the white people..."

The key difference is that for much of its history, Haiti has not be economically or poltically independent. Almost from the start, Haiti was saddled with crushing payments to France. On top of that was the continual meddling in its politics by outsiders. (The "meddling" includes the US occupying and running Haiti for several decades in the early 20th century.)

None of these outsiders were interested in helping Haiti prepare to become a democracy that respected individual rights and the rule of law.

I could go on, but you get the point.

PS Those who are interested should check out what Jared Diamond of "Guns, Germs and Steel," and Jim Robinson, 1/2 of "Why Nations Fail," have written about the Haiti/DR tells us.

For example, Robinson discussed Haiti an interview on "Why Are Some Countries Rich and Some Countries Poor?" (The answer is: Limited but effective government that respects rights and the rule of law.)

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Why Are Some Countries Rich And Others Poor?

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A new book called Why Nations Fail argues that a lot comes down to politics — not just laws, but also a country's norms.

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The picture in my post shows the border between Haiti and the DR. Same IQ, different outcome. Why is that?

I think you'd have to have a low IQ to not understand the two are not comparable. These are different experiences and contexts. IQ is a simple metric for simple contrasting conclusions.

It depends on what the "repair the world" nation wants. If it wants to take down Iraq, then it has the US do that for their evil ways and with US money and lives.

Keep that thought to yourself.

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'The Greatest Heist In History': How Haiti Was Forced To Pay Reparations For Freedom

Haiti is one of the poorest nations in the world, and rich countries have their fingerprints all over the nation's stunted development.

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Much of this debt to France was the legacy of what the University of Virginia scholar Marlene Daut calls "the greatest heist in history": surrounded by French gunboats, a newly independent Haiti was forced to pay its slaveholders reparations. You read that correctly. It was the former slaves of Haiti, not the French slaveholders, who were forced to pay reparations. Haitians compensated their oppressors and their oppressors' descendants for the privilege of being free. It took Haiti more than a century to pay the reparation debts off.
The Tragic Hope of Revolutionary Haiti
Haiti won its independence from France in 1804, and it was almost immediately made a pariah state by world powers. It was an independent, black-led nation — created by slaves who had cast aside their chains and fought their oppressors for their freedom — during a time when white-led nations were enforcing brutal, racist systems of exploitation around the world.
Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, had been the crown jewel of the French empire. It was the most lucrative colony in the whole world. French planters forced African slaves to produce sugar, coffee, and other cash crops for the global market. The system seemed to work well. That is, until the French and American revolutions helped to inspire, in 1791, what became the world's largest and most successful slave revolt. Against all odds, the slaves won. Former slaves sent slaveholders scurrying to France and America — and Haitians successfully fought back subsequent efforts to re-enslave them. Haiti was the first nation to permanently ban slavery.
But as a nation of freed black slaves, Haiti was a threat to the existing world order. President Thomas Jefferson worked to isolate Haiti diplomatically and strangle it economically, fearing that the success of Haiti would inspire slave revolts back home. With the invention and spread of the cotton gin, slavery was becoming much more lucrative at the very same time a free Haiti was coming into existence, and slaveholders in the United States and other countries clung to and expanded the inhumane means of production. Haitian success was perceived as a threat to this system for decades, and the United States didn't officially recognize Haiti until 1862, as slavery began being abolished.
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During Haiti's critical period of development, France intervened even more directly than the U.S. to thwart its success. In July 1825, the French King, Charles X, sent an armed flotilla of warships to Haiti with the message that the young nation would have to pay France 150 million francs to secure its independence, or suffer the consequences. That sum was 10 times the amount the United States had paid France in the Louisiana Purchase, which had doubled the size of the U.S.
Almost literally at gunpoint, Haiti caved to France's demands in order to secure its independence. The amount was too much for the young nation to pay outright, and so it had to take out loans with hefty interest rates from a French bank. Over the next century, Haiti paid French slaveholders and their descendants the equivalent of between $20 and $30 billion in today's dollars. It took Haiti 122 years to pay it off. Professor Marlene Daut writes it "severely damaged the newly independent country's ability to prosper.

The New York Times published an ambitious series last week about payments that Haiti, the first nation founded by formerly enslaved people, was forced to make for decades to the descendants of the people who had enslaved them.
Those who were previously unaware of “reparations” payments made to enslavers, and their far-reaching consequences for Haiti, may be surprised to learn that something like this happened in the United States, too.
In 1862, more than 900 enslavers living in the nation’s capital received money compensating them for the immediate emancipation of the more than 3,000 people they enslaved. The payments — averaging about $300 per enslaved person, equal to $8,587 in today’s money — came from the federal budget.
The enslaved people themselves, whose wages had been stolen from them for their entire lives, received nothing. There was one exception: If they agreed to leave the country for Liberia or Haiti, then they could get up to $100.
Lincoln tried to free the enslaved in D.C. years before he succeeded
It’s the only example in the United States of “compensated emancipation” — which, again, compensated the enslavers, not the enslaved — but this was a popular form of emancipation in the British and Spanish empires.

The D.C. Compensated Emancipation Act preceded President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation by nine months and was the culmination of the capital city’s slow walk toward freedom — one that Lincoln himself had tried to push forward years earlier.
A little history: The capital of the young nation was moved from Philadelphia to the new District of Columbia, sandwiched between two slaveholding states, as a result of the Compromise of 1790. Geographically, it was part of the South, but since it was the seat of government, it also attracted abolitionists, who called for an end to slavery in the capital as early as the 1820s.
In 1835, White residents rioted over an alleged plan by an enslaved man and an abolitionist to incite a rebellion. And in 1848, 77 enslaved Black Washingtonians attempted to escape aboard a ship called the Pearl, the single largest nonviolent escape attempt in American history. Unfortunately, weather slowed their escape and they were recaptured.
Desperate for freedom, 77 enslaved people tried to escape aboard the Pearl. They almost made it.
Two years before the escape attempt, about a third of the District had retroceded, once again becoming part of Virginia. The city of Alexandria, which was part of the retroceded area, was a significant port in the domestic slave trade. Many of the attempted escapees aboard the Pearl were sent to Alexandria and sold south. Two years later, as part of the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was banned in the District, though slaveholding was still permitted.
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In 1849, Lincoln, a little-known congressman, proposed a compensated emancipation deal for the District, but it failed. Thirteen years later, with all the senators and representatives from Confederate states having skipped town, Congress passed a similar proposal. Lincoln, as president, signed it into law in April 1862, allowing enslavers in Washington to receive reparations for the economic loss that freedom for others caused them.
A list of recipients of these payments reads like a who’s who of Washington society. Multiple members of the prominent Carr, Naylor, Throckmorton, Fenwick and Scott families received payments. The founders of the Willard Hotel, Henry Augustus Willard and Joseph Clapp Willard, received $2,430.90 for six enslaved people. William Thomas Carroll, a descendant of a wealthy Maryland slaveholding family and clerk of the Supreme Court, received $1,182.60 for three people. Francis Preston Blair Sr., an adviser to Lincoln, got a payment; so did the Sisters of Visitation of Georgetown. One person, George W. Young, received nearly $18,000 — about half a million in today’s dollars — for 69 people he enslaved.
Some names conspicuously do not appear, because one had to take a loyalty oath to receive the funds. So, for example, Rose Greenhow, an important Washington society woman who was also working as a Confederate spy, doesn’t appear to have gotten a penny.

There are a few payments to people noted as “colored.” This reflects one of the strange pathways to freedom many African Americans had carved. People who were born free or became free would often save up and purchase other family members. Some Black Washingtonians, who technically held the deeds to family members, may have seen an opportunity by also applying for compensation. Their payments were generally smaller than those given to White enslavers; for example, a Black man named Gabriel Coakley received $1,489.20 for eight people with the same surname, probably his wife and children.
It is unclear how many, if any, newly freed people took the $100 payment to leave.
A century ago, Mississippi’s Senate voted to send all the state’s Black people to Africa
In the end, about $1 million was given to Washington enslavers, the vast majority of whom were already wealthy. Since there was no income tax at the time and the federal budget was largely composed of customs duties, it isn’t really accurate to say this came from taxpayer dollars, but it certainly came from public money collected to benefit the nation.
These days, that $1 million given to 966 people would be worth $28.6 million — to say nothing of the wealth produced by investments of that money over generations. April 16, the day the Compensated Emancipation Act went into effect, is now celebrated as Emancipation Day in the District.

And, what did European colonisers do in their colonies...?

At this point I'm convinced it everyone who uses this site dropped dead the world would be a much better place.

Why do so many people flee Haiti for another country, but so few Japanese do?

If the entire population of Haiti was replaced by the same number of Japanese, what would the county look like 10 years from now?

How many centuries were the people of Japan enslaved by a European nation?

There are several lunar eclipses each year.

It is a myth that Haiti eliminated all white people. There were about 500 left over Polish soldiers that settled in Haiti after the war, some with African descended former female slaves on the island. The soldiers were originally sent by Napoleon to help control the rebellions on the island, but they switched sides. You are correct in saying they did kill all the white french though. Haitis present state isn’t due to a 200 year old war. It’s due to insane dictators in a father and son rule known as the Duvalier Dynasty , which up to 30,000 Haitians were killed by the regime at the time who opposed it. After this Dynasty ended from overwhelming rioting in the country , an attempt to transition into democracy was made but it never happened. Fast forward to the 21st century and the island keeps being run by dozens of gangs which kill their own people for very little. There is no rule of law and when it is attempted to be enforced there are gun fights over and over.

Yeah Japan are sooooooo smart.

They’re sooooooo smart that only 24% of Japanese-Americans voted for Trump in the last presidential election.

Why are so many RINO’s soooooo eager to suck them off?

That is true but you do realize that there are racial differences in IQ on average? So it’s not just the hillbilly and redneck removal that will raise the IQ

The DR has more people of Spanish ancestry, not just African. The DR also follows European culture more , their festivals are a mix of Spanish and African. Their culture is not comparable to Haiti. Haiti only speaks French but culturally they are similar to Africa and many even practice voodoo.