Why Spain and France occupied Countries ended up in poverty?

[Lan Jiao]

The world will be a better place if every country in this world was occupied by the British or the Dutch,

Spain and France are only good at taking other countries' resources.

Making their own Country rich and wealthy, while leaving their colonized countries into dust and poverty.

I think same can be said about Portugal.

Not really.. Indonesia & Suriname are not that great

 

[Katsumi Yamada]

British occupied countries are prosperous nations, except for India.

Bangladesh, Myanmar, and I hear Eastern Africa is a Utopia now

 

[Brampton_Boy]

Add Guyana to the list of countries that the British left a (tropical) waste land.

 

[2008]

The U.S. is successful, Hong Kong is successfull, Indians as an immigrant group value education and value top career field.....there is some truth with British colonies being somewhat successful

 

[Possum Jenkins]

The successful "British-occupied countries" that people are referring to are the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The reason they're successful is that they practiced the worst kind of colonialism, settler colonialism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settler_colonialism

Unlike the Spanish and Portuguese, the English wanted a blank slate in these new colonies so they just razed the place and completely got rid of the people living there.

Ethnic cleansing and genocide work.

 

[LEGS MAHONEY]

ITT barbarians trying to besmirch the GOATS of the mediterranean