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I would not necessarily frame the question that way. But the lion's share of the explanation does lie with their culture. This inane question illustrates the primary thing I'm talking about. Thank you.
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I like this style of thought. It casts aside any kind of empiricism for a value judgment on the one thing that can never be quantified: culture. It is a very convenient way to find logical consistency. And it is counterfactual. It can never be proven wrong or right. Nice.
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Moreover, I never said colonialism didn't do damage. It did. But to deomonstrate the overly-simplistic trap of laying everything at colonialism's feet as the utlimate bogeyman consider India. India is today ascendant as a world power, and a lot because of the language, legal system, political system, and education system, etc., that Great Britain left behind. These are defining aspects of British culture.
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Your example is more related to economics than culture, and in that case it makes a good explanatory variable. If you are serious about finding an answer to something you can look for it by doing sound analysis of economics, geography, history, and even sometimes as a last resort culture. But as a fallback variable it is pretty weak, especially in the instance of large scale problems. Africa presents an enormous problem for a cultural explanation, because it has not got anything like a monolithic culture, but has hundreds of ethnic groups. However, Africans did have a near universal experience in colonization. Which affected them in much the same way, was removed at the same time, etc. Certainly it would seem more logical to look at these events to try and find a root cause and a solution to the problems that plague the continent. |
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