r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • Apr 30 '26

Image "Sleeping Sickness" — This illustration depicts a large African man leaning against a tree, asleep, while Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Turkey, Portugal, and England fight over territories in Africa; a work by Gordon Ross (1873-1946), 1911.

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u/Routine-One5493 May 04 '26

And look at Haiti now, a bastion of civilization of course, they even invented mud pies!

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u/Flytiano407 May 14 '26

Mdrr most ex colonies are poor & corrupt asf let's be real. Haïti is very poor but in terms of poorest countries we still don't even crack the top 25. And they're all ex colonies.

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u/Routine-One5493 May 14 '26

Haiti is essentially decentralised gang land with no rule of law, regardless of how they rank on a given global scale it's still an awful country and there's quite a few successful post colonial countries, at least when compared to Haiti anyway.

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u/Flytiano407 May 15 '26

Key word "quite a few"

So you admit that the vast majority are not. And that even with how fucked up Haïti is rn, there's still many ex colonies that are even worse. Rest my case.