主题：【文摘】海地--一个失败国家的历史 -- wolfgan
译者还犯了个错，那段话不是出自国王而是出自国王的秘书Pompée Valentin, Baron de Vastey。
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Haiti
上帝对海地200年前反抗法国殖民统治斗争的报复。他的讲话引起社会舆论愤怒。可见殖民主义的幽灵还在美洲大陆徘徊。
之后还去细究这个秘书到底姓甚名谁，果然看了中文就会先入为主。
对牲口都不带这样子的。
不过黑人也不省油，革命的时候清算殖民者也够狠，相比之下中国人真是文明而善良。
是英国推销的自由贸易和比较分工政策的信徒，经济搞得好才怪。
Latin European colonies never built up solid/clean administration. When I say Latin European, I mean French/Italian/Spanish/Portguese. Anyway, those Latin European nations were itself a piece of C* for many years even until 1970s (Spain/Portguese/Italy)
Genetically, the colony administrations were pieces of s* permeated with corruption and inefficiency, in addition to suppression from brain-washing institution called Roman Catholoic Church.
Last reason: the first generation independence leaders are no George Washington/T. Jefferson.
I have to admit that British subjects really have historical/cultural advantage in self-administration.
US/Canada/NewZealand/Australia/HK/Singapore are all their success example.
Therefore, the global imperial power fell off the hand of Britain, but still stays with the English-Protestant nations.
is a curse for Latin America:
1.People become lazy. Easy life, no hard work ethics.
2.One industry becomes too dominant in political life, bad for democracy because it is hard to build check and balance.
3.Make itself too attractive for foreign interference.
4.Too close to America--colonization becomes easier and less costly.
When America became No.1 industrialized nation in the West Hemisphere, the No.1 priority is to control resources in this hemisphere. It can not control Eastern Hemisphere, because it was all divided by European powers.
Japan: overpopulation with little natural resource--nobody wants to colonize that piece of shit land.
China is similar case. Japan only wanted the Don Bei.
是阿根廷人自己说的。阿根廷一直以“南美的美国”自居，瞧不起周边国家，包括它的最大邻国巴西。甚至在1982年马岛战争前夕，阿根廷外长还在公开讲话中声称，阿根廷不屑于与“那些落后的发展中国家”发展关系。这是它在马岛战争中孤立无援，最终失败的重要原因。
就是它公开主张“闭关自守”。在其第二部分《发展是遇难者多于航行者的航行》的《早夭史》章中，作者详细的描述了19世纪的巴拉圭是如何通过“与其他国家严格隔离”，“闭关自守，立足国内发展的政策”，让自己成为了当时“因战乱而动荡不安”的拉美的一块“宁静的绿洲”。作者对巴拉圭的这一做法给予了高度评价，并称之为拉美“独立发展唯一成功的经验”。
按照左大培的看法，拉美国家之所以会走上自由贸易和比较分工的道路，恰恰是因为他们此前搞“独立自主”失败的结果。
历史并不能证明你的这个说法。我认为在这个问题上，张文木先生的看法更深刻。他认为，日本是企图仿效英国对中国搞“大陆均势”战略，为此他们必须先将中国分裂成若干个国家，而不仅仅是占据一个东北就完事。具体的说就是：伪满洲国的地位相当于波兰，华北汉奸自治政府的地位相当于法国，南京伪国民政府的地位相当于西班牙。让这三个“国家”相互牵制，这才是日本的方针。
所以我觉得用资源的诅咒不能完全说明问题。
瞧这“外长”，与其说是“外交部长”，不如说是“破坏关系部长”。
对比TG，真不是一个数量级啊。