Toro
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Hmmm... whitish, I suppose. Yet I would continue to assert that race is what makes the difference. Why did the better legal systems develop in England, so far north and so white, and not elsewhere?
Last I checked "whites" have screwed up a shit load of countries.
Sigh. Which ones?
Are you joking?
Try "native Americans". Hello.
And read a bit about the history of Africa.
Here's a small part about the rape of the Congo by King Leopold of Belgium.
Reports of outrageous exploitation and widespread human rights abuses (including enslavement and mutilation of the native population), especially in the rubber industry, led to an international protest movement in the early 1900s. Forced labor was extorted from the natives. Estimates of the death toll range from 2 to 15 million (for further detail, see Congo Free State ([3]) and many historians consider the atrocities to have constituted a genocide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium
The atrocities of slavery in Africa perpetuated by whites (and Arabs and other blacks too) have done enormous damage to the continent to this day.
Here's a study I read today on the effects of population settlement within the geography and how that effects the current economy.
http://voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/233