Post by Progenitor A on Mar 22, 2011 9:07:10 GMT 1
Comparison of the cultures -
NF you see pointed out a unique experiment that started in the 16/17C. Spain colonised most of S America and Britain colonised N America
The apportioning of success looked like a foregone conclusion; S America had vast wealth of Gold and Silver and was stupendously fertile. N America had little to offer but land - and religious freedom
Yet look at the two continents today!
N America is the highest civilisation the world has ever witnessed and has the strongest economy and the most formidable armed forces.
Only now are some SA countries starting on the path toward NA prosperity and only then because they are adopting the US model
Nowhere is this contrast of cultures more stark than in the US southerns states that border Mexico. The land is identical in all respects yet on one side we have poverty and endemic corruption and on the other prosperity and and order
Personally I have always maintained that the superiority of one culture over another is graphically demonstrated by immigration patterns; there i is no record in history of people moving from a better culture to a worse culture
Unfortunately the US spoiled it all with slavery (as did SA too) and never, until very recently, accepted the blacks as equals.
But that apart, as Ferguson demonstrated, NE culture is (was!) a world beater!
NF you see pointed out a unique experiment that started in the 16/17C. Spain colonised most of S America and Britain colonised N America
The apportioning of success looked like a foregone conclusion; S America had vast wealth of Gold and Silver and was stupendously fertile. N America had little to offer but land - and religious freedom
Yet look at the two continents today!
N America is the highest civilisation the world has ever witnessed and has the strongest economy and the most formidable armed forces.
Only now are some SA countries starting on the path toward NA prosperity and only then because they are adopting the US model
Nowhere is this contrast of cultures more stark than in the US southerns states that border Mexico. The land is identical in all respects yet on one side we have poverty and endemic corruption and on the other prosperity and and order
Personally I have always maintained that the superiority of one culture over another is graphically demonstrated by immigration patterns; there i is no record in history of people moving from a better culture to a worse culture
Unfortunately the US spoiled it all with slavery (as did SA too) and never, until very recently, accepted the blacks as equals.
But that apart, as Ferguson demonstrated, NE culture is (was!) a world beater!