[rayiner]

> Europe dosent have to deal with the absolute cluster fuck mess colonialism was.

England is the product of many waves of colonization. Spain was colonized by the Muslims.

Why were the Europeans able to colonize these places in the first place anyway?

> Gtfo your talking about highly corrupt administations propt up by western interests, that only providing aide for un-repayable loans. Look up what the IMF or World Bank has done and its failures.

LOL! I’m from Bangladesh. The World Bank is the best thing that ever happened to the country. It basically teaches developing nations to get rich the same way European countries got rich. It’s native and organic cultural dysfunction that stands in the way.

Blaming Europeans for the dysfunction of the developing world is a false kindness. Ordinarily, you get better by copying the people who succeeded. People study how Steve Jobs built Apple. Blaming colonialism makes it easy for developing countries to falsely imagine that if they could only overcome colonialism, they would have been prosperous too.

[selimthegrim]

At the risk of setting off pyrotechnics I’m going to point you to this op-ed (I am assuming you can read Bengali)

http://archive.prothom-alo.com/detail/news/67517

e: hmm it seems to be down but one of the things it states was how much money Pakistan federal government spent on upgrading education system in erstwhile East Pakistan holding it to high standards

[random314]

> Why were the Europeans able to colonize these places in the first place anyway?

But why was she assaulted? What was she doing? What was she wearing?

> Blaming colonialism makes it easy for developing countries to falsely imagine that if they could only overcome colonialism, they would have been prosperous too.

anthropomorphization much?