/lit/ - Literature

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I mean you couldn't even pay your debts to France, so you got occupied by them. . .that isn't one of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Countries.

The thing is that countries with white protestant populations are always better off economically, because WASPs value literacy (to read the Bible) and industriousness. Countries with Catholic layabout cultures tend to be poor. Spain and Portugal are some of the poorest countries in Europe, and guess who was responsible for colonizing South America.

Is this accurate? Is the intelligence of a population directly linked to their ability to function inside and understand increasingly complex social and political ideologies?

Is Latin America what happens when you bring advanced political ideas to a population that lacks the philosophical foundation to support it?