Posted on 01/16/2010 3:27:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Botswana has made some improvements. It’s not super-developed, of course, and there is a high AIDS rate but overall the country is growing but it does not suffer from the same problems that face other African countries.
I think it’s wrong to attribute to race what you can attribute to improperly developed cultures and, ironically, the far more disastrous (than colonialism) influence of Western statist ideologies, which when combined with tribalism or lack of technological development are an utter disaster for the people who adopt them.
There is also extreme mismanagement of their natural resources. The Haitians cut down and burn for fuel anything that grows, and as a result the source of the island’s wealth... its soil, has long washed into the sea.
My aunt had a governess (I guess that’s what you would call her, because she didn’t do any housework that I could see) for her children in the early 60’s. I met her in 1960 at my aunt’s vacation home. Her name was Mrs. Vincent, and she was apparently the daughter-in-law of a man named Vincent who was President of Haiti at one time. Her family had to flee Haiti afer he stepped down and she settled in America. My aunt said she showed her pictures of her family wearing beautiful clothes and jewels. Unfortunately, she was into voodoo and that was one of the reasons my aunt had to let her go.
Guess we only hear about the bad ones.
Color should not be a basis for an opinion on anything. Sadly much of the time it is.
Major export is tourism?
Richest in the French New World? Well, since “Lower Canada” (Quebec and Les Maritimes) and Louisiana had gone to the British and Americans, were there any other French colonies in the New World?
Amen. Also take a look at Algeria and Morocco - perhaps 1 step above Haiti. They have huge rates of unemployment, illiteracy (although very intelligent people), hunger, lean-tos, and a previous French occupation.
Amen AGAIN! Obama cultivated his style in his early youth as he watched dictators control their subjects. I always wanted to be a nurse as a little girl; maybe Obama always wanted to be a dictator as a little boy.
Yes, but when you have 10 million people in such a small area, it’s to be expected.
Also visit St Maarten, which is half-Dutch and half-French, you knew when you had crossed over to the French side just by the smell.
Every island colony that gained “independence” from the Europeans has turned into some sort of hellhole.
Hong Kong hasn’t done to poorly.....
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Hong Kong was not independent. Great Britain ran the show until 1997 and at that time, Red China took over.
And obviously Robert Mugabe read Duvalier’s book.
Ideas and character trump skin color...always...
I don’t think Obama’s Chi-town Mojo is
up to dealing with island voodoo. I just
hope they focus it all on HIM.
Or take Pakistan and Egypt, former British colonies. Formerly French Lebanon was nice until the muslims took over. It’s almost as if it’s the colonial inhabitants/new rulers who decide how a country ends up...
Why is it that the non-muslim east asian colonies turned into reasonably nice places - tiger economies even - while the African colonies are hellholes in comparison? Do you think just maybe the inhabitants might have something to with it..?
Naah, couldn’t be...
Enough with this stupid French bashing already. Not everything bad in the world is due to some whitey or another. And even the French North-African colonies were far better off under French rule than what they have become since.
Considering the death toll in the current disaster, and the ongoing abysmal condition of the entire country, it seems to me that now is the time for a Haitian repatriation effort. It’s time for all Haitian brain power to head back to the homeland and start making something out of what is a 200 year old junk heap.
It’s their country, they should go home and fix it.
Oh yeah!
That I haven't heard. Is that something that just happened? Do you have a link?
Watch the video via Breitbart here :
http://www.breitbart.tv/haitian-ambassador-has-a-message-for-pat-robertson/
I have to modify what I said — the Haitian ambassador did not openly admit the pact, but he did not deny it either.
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