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Originally Posted by Aunt Maude
Probably a good bet since, if you cast a broad net, all of South and Central America, all but a few African countries, the entire Middle East, India and the Pakistans, SE Asia, the Philippines and 99% of island nations, and (arguably) China were run by somebody in Western Europe at one time and likely had income disparity (as anywhere did in the 18th and 19th C.).
It's worth noting that the highest murder rates are, I believe, mostly in Central America now.
Say, here's an interesting paper for you.
http://www.nyudri.org/wp-content/upl...nt-Nov2013.pdf
I do have to say that I hope that if we pay reparations in this country, that the recipients in turn give a bunch of it to Liberians. |
The places with the truly anti-social every-man-for-himself crimes and ways of life were not just colonies but places where lots of Europeans settled as well and fought to separate themselves from the undesirables. New Orleans, Bogotá, Honduras, Johannesburg. Different histories, places whose underclasses have no contact with each other, but the EXACT SAME problems have sprouted up in each of them in the last half century.
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