To the following question of @Edao...
Another point I would make is the performance of former colonies based on the templates set out by the colonial powers.
America, Australia and Canada all economically stable countries.
Brasil, Argentina, and Mexico all comparitively have huge social and economic problems. Are these based on flawed cultral systems set out by their respective European powers?
... @Lynx responded with this...
USA, Australia and Canada share the same english colonial past as India and most of africans countries. However India and all those africans countries are among the most undeveloped countries in the world along with Latin American's countries.
Argentina/Mexico's/etc. economic and social problems has to do more with their native population and their native cultural legacy. USA, Australia and Canada's population are mostly euro-descendants, while in Mexico, Argentina, India, Africa etc. most of the population have strong native/indigenous roots.
Well, is a respectable opinion...
I do not deny that USA, Canada and Australia are stable, progressive countries.
I think it will be ridiculous from my part to try to deny that in Latin America (I am Mexican) there are serious problems, based solely in my strong Mexican nationalism.
I situations like this, I better go to check the numbers...
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Here, we have a list of the 20 largest economies of the World, according to Wikipedia as of today.
1 United States 14,264,600
2 China 7,916,4291
3 Japan 4,354,368
4 India 3,288,345
5 Germany 2,910,490
6 Russia 2,260,907
7 United Kingdom 2,230,549
8 France 2,130,383
9 Brazil 1,981,207
10 Italy 1,814,557
11 Mexico 1,548,007
12 Spain 1,396,881
13 South Korea 1,342,338
14 Canada 1,303,234
15 Turkey 915,184
16 Indonesia 908,242
17 Iran 819,799
18 Australia 795,305
19 Republic of China (Taiwan) 711,418
20 Netherlands 675,375
It so happens, that of first 4 economies, 3 happen to be Asian. One of them, attained independence as late as 1947.
Brazil is going up fast... altough everyone expect, that it will be above Germany in less than 20 years. Not a big feat, since already Brazil has the economy of 2/3 of Germany, and has just began to tap its potential.
@Lynx, which affectionally calls me "frijolito" (little bean), could see that "Beanland" happens to have a larger economy as its former colonial power. And with 20% unemployment, and the burden Spain represents currently financially to the EU, I don't see how they could close that gap soon (Did I fail mention that Spain has the lowest birth rate of the World?).
However, @Lynx says that our problems are due to our Amerindian heritage (i.e. genes and culture). Thanks, @Lynks we know we do not owe nothing to you
. I wonder how Spain will look, if we summarise also the GDPs of Argentina, Peru, Chile, Venezuela and the like.
In summary, and responding to @Lynx, I will say that we Amerindians have problems... still, we go on our own pace.
Regards.