Wow! Just finished listening to @JOEBOTxyz on Warroom. What an interesting show! I loved how TJHarker.com summed up his thoughts on "The Best Thing That Could Ever Happen," that the USA is the greatest country on earth because of the, "ideas we hold in our heads," meshed w Johnny Vedmore's "great synthesis" affect on America via the UN Migrant Strategy, discussion, that by bringing in too many people who don't hold these same ideas for self governance, there will be nobody to teach them. These values are in The Declaration of Independence for which we are all proud and cannot let the left destroy this.
You should take a look at the definitive book in this field: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. It explains why some former colonies succeeded and others didn't. It's nothing to do with length of time as a colony and everything to do with quality of government. Kenya and Nigeria are failures because the British colonists used an extractive, autocratic form of government which has persisted the current day. Obviously, the US and Australia are complete opposites in that there was self-determination and representative democracy from the early days of colonization. Exceptions that prove the rule are cases in which an extremely brilliant leader is able to buck the trend and alter the course of their country's destiny. Botswana is a good example from the book, a former British colony in Africa that succeeded due to the quality of its leadership in the post-colonial period.
No doubt all those other factors matter quite a bit, particularly at the extremes. But length of colonization is critical as well. Habits can't be trained in a single generation, no matter the quality of rule. Looks like a good book and thanks for the comment.
Fair objection, to be sure. But this wasn't meant to be a peer reviewed article. If that were the case, nobody would have read it. I think the gist is true - best to be colonized by the British.
Meddling in sovereign nations, coups, sanctions, and other forms of undermining self-determination didn’t end with British imperialism. This is like looting everything from your neighbor’s house, burning it down, then blaming them for poverty and arson. Fuck off with the supremacy and what it has wrought, read some history, catch up with the Dulles bros, read The Devil’s Chessboard, How to Hide an Empire, and so on.
This is great work, and no doubt true. What is also true, is that third world colonies of France have remained severe shitholes, worse than even the former Spanish colonies. It would be interesting if you did a similar analysis between the length of colonization and GDP/capita and see if there's a correlation there.
What is Jamaica's 2022 per capita GDP? Near as I can tell, they were a British colony for 255 years. I haven't been there in 26 years, but it was no great shakes when I visited.
Wow! Just finished listening to @JOEBOTxyz on Warroom. What an interesting show! I loved how TJHarker.com summed up his thoughts on "The Best Thing That Could Ever Happen," that the USA is the greatest country on earth because of the, "ideas we hold in our heads," meshed w Johnny Vedmore's "great synthesis" affect on America via the UN Migrant Strategy, discussion, that by bringing in too many people who don't hold these same ideas for self governance, there will be nobody to teach them. These values are in The Declaration of Independence for which we are all proud and cannot let the left destroy this.
https://rumble.com/v5gi5kt-warroom-battleground-ep-622-ai-mass-immigration-and-the-scourge-of-disinfor.html
Let’s take Bermuda, after Greenland that is.
You should take a look at the definitive book in this field: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. It explains why some former colonies succeeded and others didn't. It's nothing to do with length of time as a colony and everything to do with quality of government. Kenya and Nigeria are failures because the British colonists used an extractive, autocratic form of government which has persisted the current day. Obviously, the US and Australia are complete opposites in that there was self-determination and representative democracy from the early days of colonization. Exceptions that prove the rule are cases in which an extremely brilliant leader is able to buck the trend and alter the course of their country's destiny. Botswana is a good example from the book, a former British colony in Africa that succeeded due to the quality of its leadership in the post-colonial period.
No doubt all those other factors matter quite a bit, particularly at the extremes. But length of colonization is critical as well. Habits can't be trained in a single generation, no matter the quality of rule. Looks like a good book and thanks for the comment.
..thanks for the book reference. this looks like it could be an informative read..
Of course. It’s a great read.
this seems to assume that the die are cast at the end of the colonization period and that the former colonies have no self determination
Fair objection, to be sure. But this wasn't meant to be a peer reviewed article. If that were the case, nobody would have read it. I think the gist is true - best to be colonized by the British.
Just found this tonight... I'm not certain what to make of it but thought I would post it here.
https://josephinecashman.substack.com/p/terra-carter-licence-to-kill?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
Meddling in sovereign nations, coups, sanctions, and other forms of undermining self-determination didn’t end with British imperialism. This is like looting everything from your neighbor’s house, burning it down, then blaming them for poverty and arson. Fuck off with the supremacy and what it has wrought, read some history, catch up with the Dulles bros, read The Devil’s Chessboard, How to Hide an Empire, and so on.
This is great work, and no doubt true. What is also true, is that third world colonies of France have remained severe shitholes, worse than even the former Spanish colonies. It would be interesting if you did a similar analysis between the length of colonization and GDP/capita and see if there's a correlation there.
Belgian colonies were also hellholes. I'll put in on the list of things to do. Thanks for the recommendation.
What is Jamaica's 2022 per capita GDP? Near as I can tell, they were a British colony for 255 years. I haven't been there in 26 years, but it was no great shakes when I visited.
that's not a good test case because they were also a French colony and French colonization efforts were inevitably disastrous.
Looks like it's about $10,100 (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/jamaica/#economy).