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There is a fascinating list of other examples like that, even within the same country or just a few decades apart. Southern India vs. Northern India, Southern
by inglor_cz 4y ago
There is a fascinating list of other examples like that, even within the same country or just a few decades apart.
Southern India vs. Northern India, Southern Italy vs. Northern Italy (in the other direction), Estonia or Poland in 1990 vs. Estonia or Poland in 2022 (the very same ethnicity in a single generation, so cannot be blamed on genetics), Rwanda vs. Congo, Lebanon pre-1973 vs. post-1973. Somaliland vs. Somalia.
Greece and Italy were countries with very low levels of governmental debt as late as 1975...
In cases of obviously broken countries, people tend to search for a guilty external party, most often the colonialists, but even though they may be sometimes right, this is a lazy pattern; plenty of colonies have grown obscenely rich (cough Hong Kong, cough Singapore) and plenty of colonial countries stayed relatively poor (Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, Russia).
- mmmmmbop 4y ago> Estonia or Poland in 1990 vs. Estonia or Poland in 2022 (the very same ethnicity in a single generation, so cannot be blamed on genetics) Are you suggesting that Poles and Estonians are the same ethnicity?
- rvba 4y agoPoland was particioned between Germany, Russia and Austria. Eastern part fell under Russia and it is visible many years later. Things were slowly changing, but now PIS party won. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_A_and_B https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_A_and_B
- inglor_cz 4y agoOld imperial divisions are also very visible in Romania. The former Austro-Hungarian part is visibly more prosperous than the old Ottoman part, even though the capital Bucharest is located in the latter.
- zajio1am 4y agoI would add Austria and Czechia since 1945. They had about the same GDP/capita after WW2, but after the end of communist rule in Czechoslovakia in 1989, It was about 2-3 times higher in Austria.
- anonu 4y agoLebanon was a French protectorate. It was never deeply indebted to French banks as Haiti was ..