Anyway you are so drunk with depression and hatred, and I am not sure against what, but you missed out on an entire continent that was colonized (Africa), you missed out on an entire sub-continent (India) that was colonized, you missed out on the far East (Vietnam, Indonesia, Phillipines etc.) that was colonized
And you sound like an adherent of a great new secular religion, anti-colonialism. Something's wrong with the world? Colonialism is to blame! Well let's look at all these suffering former colonies. India is not doing too badly, even though it was colonized twice, first by the Moguls, then by the British (oops, I'm forgetting, can it count as colonialism if the masters aren't white Europeans?) Indonesia and Phillipines are not that bad off either, if they could get rid of their Islamist crazies. Vietnam is still suffering the self-inflicted wound of Communism.
Now to the Arab lands. Hmm, Saudi Arabia was never colonized at all, so colonialism can't be the problem there. Most of the other lands were colonized only briefly, as they suffered under Turkish rule until 1918. Hmm, is thirty years of British colonial rule really more damaging than 400 years of Turkish imperial rule? I kinda doubt it. Still doesn't explain why Egypt and South Korea had the same per capita income in 1950 (and if you want to see a really vicious colonial rule, check out how the Japanese treated the Koreans), but South Korea's per capita income is five times higher today.
One thing my posts do reflect, and yours do not, is a working knowledge of the history of the region. |
