smile wrote:
For the most part, countries that were colonized by Britain are better off today than the countries it boarders.
That's right. England left behind a legacy of civilized countries wherever they went. France left behind corruption and oppression. It's a mixed bag for the other colonial powers.
fraudsters - you really think Africa's dictators needed 'propping up' by the west? For what purpose?
It's about wide-scale corruption, plain and simple.
Who's propping up Kabila in DR Congo right now? I guarantee this guy will still be in power a decade from now and is well on his way to becoming Mobutu II. Have you ever been to Congo? It's corrupt bottom to top and everywhere in between.
Endemic corruption will keep many African countries from ever becoming prosperous. It's not on the west.
They would have been better without colonialism - backward and violent, but better. It's moot though, because the West developed such that Africa would have been corrupted in some form even if not by colonial methods.
america was greater as a european colony. make america great again
Maybe some outside power can come into the USA and make us all their slaves and then we can see how good colonialism.
Oh wait. The Zi*nists already did that. Doesn't it make you proud as an American to see all our pols bow down and pledge loyalty to Israel?
Colonialism is always bad, just ask Eastern Europeans and Cengtral Asians who were colonized by Mongolia for 300 years.
Ethiopia was never a colony. Same shit there as anywhere else in Africa.
Africans simply aren't intelligent enough to have working democracies. Of course that doesn't excuse anyone for plundering the country. But someone will always do it. That's the way nature works.
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