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Why are all the former Spanish colonies shit?

>Mexico and Central America: Shit countries ruled by drug lords
>Caribbean: Poor as fuck
>South America: Violent shitholes
>Philippines: Elected a fucking crazy bigot for president; also a shithole

What is it about the Spanish that made their colonies be shit?
How come it wasn't like the Anglo colonies that turned out to be good?
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You forgot the United States.
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They fucked their natives instead of killing them.
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>>60729295
Only Texas.
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>>60729364
And Nevada. And New Mexico. And Arizona. And California.
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>>60729268
They had a bad father, I mean just look at Spain now
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>>60729268
Mexico is richer than Spain.
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>>60729268
Most of anglo colonies are fucked up shitholes. Our ex colonies are generally better then the english/french ones.
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>>60729268
for some reason you seem to believe that it was the goal of colonial powers to turn their colonies into prosperous nations.
This couldn't be futher from the truth. Colonial powers wanted to exploit their colonies for resources and keep them weak. So in that regard, Spain was rather successful in its colonialization.
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>>60729268
Because anglo "colonies" are just an extension of the UK (actual UK colonies are shitholes)
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>>60729475
Same island, different colonies. Which is better?
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Spain and Catholicism are shit.
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>>60729268
>US
>not shit
(^:
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>>60729547
DR of course. That proves my point.
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>>60729268
Spain itself is shit in the first place
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>>60729268
>implying du30 won't make the philippines great again
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>>60729268
We are shit because we don't have rule of law. Everyone does as they please, even if it is against the law.
My country is a great example of rule by law.
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Spain was just terrible at colonising.

Brits however had it down, our colonies still rule the waves.
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>>60729268
US puppets

US have invaded/make coups on most south american countries
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>>60729268
you will be our colony, soon aaaaaaaaaaaaj XDXD
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>>60729485
/thread
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>>60729268 (OP)
British colonial policy:
Build universities and nice cities in temperate regions
Send free settlers to live there

Spanish colonial policy:
Build churches and work camps wherever
Send convicts and slaves to collect natural resources and ship them back to Spain.
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>>60729268
because of the monroe doctrine
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>>60729268
Well i dont think Costa Rica is shit tho
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>complain why we're so shit
>wants to build a wall anyway


well then let us in so we can learn from your ways
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>>60729485


LISTEN TO HANS PEOPLE
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>>60729485
>this

Australia was supposed to be used as a prison island for convicts

3 JERRY CANS OF PREMIUM 98 LATER THE ABOS STARTED KILLING REDCOATS AND BRITAIN INVADED

Now Australia is here.
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>>60729268
it's all about the ethnic make up dummy.
btw you wanted mexico to remain a shithole when you supported the brown manlet "republicans" over the white imperialist reformators.
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>>60729268
British exterminated the locals and settled there with their women
Spanish/Portuguese migrated there and mixed with locals and slaves
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>>60733640
Yet most of theis ex-colonies are african shitholes.
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>>60729268
yes, we are pretty shit ,nuke us and stop our suffering
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>>60729404
And Florida, Puerto Rico, Guam and Northern Mariana Islands
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>>60734198
Ohh and Colorado
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>>60729268
To be fair, Mexico, Argentina, Peru and many of the Latin American countries are really only bad places to live if you're part of the poorest 1/4th of society. Dutarte is a dick but he's not that bad desu.
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>>60733964
Well, it appears that they were good at sorting their colonies into three categories: settlements with a British majority, natural resource zones with a native majority, and multicultural strategic trading cities.
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you can fix this with bombs
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>>60734504
While the Spanish just created multicultural resource hoarding zones.
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>>60729268
At least the Spanish didn't import millions niggers like all the others.
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>>60729404
But of those, only Texas is shit
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Not as shit as Belgium, Mussolini in Ethiopia, France's shithouse colonies (eg. Haiti)
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>>60729636
The picture of the dark-skinned men running is from Papua New Guinea
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The colonies were rich and prosperous until the independence, the average Mexican criollo (40% of the population by then) in the XIX century before the independence was richer than the average German of the time. The exploitation is more a myth than anything, 80% of the production in Mexico stayed there, the other went to the Spanish Crown (quinto real) not really to "Spain" (we were all Spain) which in turn was a money used to pay the troops all around the Empire and things like that, the Spaniards in the peninsula were also taxed. Nueva España was even richer than peninsular Spain, and the independence of the colonies disturbed all the former parts of the Spanish Empire because we had a closed and a very interdependent market.

The drug cartels, the guerrillas like the FARC, the Maras, the favelas, all the wars and civil wars and communist, socialist and fascist revolutions they had since then is their fault. The criminality levels between the Latin American countries and Spain are like the night and the day, Spain has a murder rate as low as Japan and much lower than the UK or France while Central American nations or countries like Venezuela lead the world in murder rates. Also, they have been during half century a region of proxy wars and revolutions by the major powers of the cold war, the USA can't escape the blame with shit like the School of Americas, to be honest.
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>>60729268
>bigot
This word means as much as [spoiler]fun[/spoiler] does.
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They slaughtered native people, like american conquerors.
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>>60734289
This, and even then this isn't a bad place for shitskins.
They have free health and welfare, also they seem to enjoy living in slums. They should be burned alive though.
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>>60729268

Dont be mean to your father.
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>>60729268
USA and Netherlands are fine.
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>>60735433
The myth has fallen,

Anglos absolutely BTFO
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>>60735433
Saved.
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>>60729268
>Why are all the former Spanish colonies shit?
American imperialism is the cause
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>>60735433
venezuela have to be yellow (or orange)
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>>60729268
I blame france, the US, and our shitty kings

You fags had the gall to sink one of your own ships just to blame us, wage war against us and steal both cuba and the phillippines and everything else we had; why not interfere with all our other ex-colonies' governments too? That would indeed get them out of the picture as a menace, after all. Can't really blame you I guess, though you're still dicks for it.

France, specifically Napoleon, betrayed us and left us without control of our colonies, which were inspired both by the US and by France to start a revolution and independize.
Even before that, France made secret deals with the brits during the sucession war, basically castrating spain.

Hell, if it wasn't because of the EU we'd probably be like our colonies right now, since that's pretty much how we often were since the sucession war.

Bu the worst of all? Our shitty french kings, going all for centralization and fucking up our everything, as well as driving our colonies away from us. Surprise, during the few years spain had no king, we made a constitution and had improved our relation with our colonies, and were about to grant them their independence-with-alliance, ala british colonies. As soon as we kick napoleon out and the king is back he throws the constitution to the trash and starts warring the colonies to get them chained back to spain. And of course, let's keep milking Cuba to their last drop of blood! Which is pretty much what made the US start a war with us and get our last few colonies and sinking us into cultural depression.

Really, the reasons are just a whole mess of jerks, bad decisions and bad luck, otherwise known as History

If only we had stayed together, we could have had a chance at staying strong and developed. But not even the colonies themselves could manage to make their dream of an united american country come true, too much infighting.
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Terrible gene pool
That's what you get when you racemix instead of importing European blood
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>>60735491
This.
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>>60735584

What myth? How has it fallen?

UK: Plenty of successful and prosperous former colones

Spain: Most successful colony is fucking Argentina

France: JUST FUCK MY SHIT UP
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>>60739110
>Plenty of successful and prosperous former colonies
Not if you look at the african/indian shitholes I guess.
And Spain's worst is better than UK's worst

Not that it matters anyway, they'll probably get better from there, and the actual "how good of a parent you were to your colonies" is only applicable to the time where they were under your rule. Do you look at the US and say "surely they made it to the moon thanks to being under british rule"?
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Anglo colonies had more long term prospects which, unsurprisingly, led to better areas.
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>>60733640
Illiterate, only Spain built universities in colonial America. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Universidades_y_colegios_virreinales_en_Hispanoam%C3%A9rica
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>>60729524
Belize.
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>>60729547
That's a poor example, Haiti was a French colony and is fucking terrible.
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>>60735433
>>60740815
New world colonialism is different from African/Asian colonialism. Outside of the Philippines Spain didn't have much of the latter since they were irrelevant by the time it was happening. You have to compare American/Australian colonies to each other.

The Anglophone Caribbean is roughly on par with Latin America, while US/Canada/Aus/NZ have far higher standards of living than any ex-spanish colony.
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Casta
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>>60735268
Bullshit. Places don't just become shitholes out of fucking nowhere.
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>>60746392
>What is Tenotchtitlan
>What is Qaraqorum
>What is Bagdad
>What are all the former great civilizations that now are gone
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Great Britain colonized a place with wide open land and comparatively few hunter-gatherer tribes. Spain colonized the places where Native civilization was at its peak and there were still a shit load of them.
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>>60729411
>I mean just look at Spain now
whats with spain now

>>60729437
kek
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>>60729709
ok CHINK
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>>60744225
dont bother hes japanese
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>>60745640
Non Spanish Caribbean suck.
Belize and Haiti are worse than their neighbors in many things.

The Guyanas and Surinam are also pretty bad.
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>>60748986
The British had two types of colony- extraction and settle. The Spanish blended the two.
Out of the colonies Britain intended to settle, only the southern regions of Africa failed.
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>>60749087
Canada is extraction though, have to get your hands on all those beaver pelts.
Australia is a prison.
Didn't USA start off as a dumping ground for people with weird religions ?
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>>60729268
What a shit map
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British administrative autism allowed places that would normally be shitholes like Canada and Australia to be pretty decent countries, the United States just had smart founders and good land.
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>>60735433
>Not marking Morocco
>Not marking Guam
>Not marking northern Mariana Islands
>Not marking Western Sahara
>Not marking Trinidad and Tobago
>Not marking Netherlands
>Not marking Italy
>Not marking Malta
>Not marking Marshall Islands
>Not marking Taiwan
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