Thread 17893289

Is it possible for a country to recover from colonialism?

>>17893289 (OP)
I don't know, what can you do with all that infrastructure in your land designed by foreign powers to explicitly extract resources? Extract those resources and sell them? Use that money to invest in other infrastructure? Educate your citizens? Build roads and hospitals? No, I think you should just complain and beg for money.

>>17893300
While other countries had hundreds of years to do that the colonies became independent only recently and all of their history they've been exploited and suppressed and it's unreasonable to claim that it doesn't have any long lasting impacts

>>17893366
Then you've already answered your question. NO!

Of course, assuming they actually have the will and the self-respect to do so, and a willingness to use the resources available to them. East Asia has demonstrated how to do it, but I don't have high expectations for Africa.

>>17893289 (OP)
There was a documentary called No Béarla where an Irish speaker called
Manchán Magan went around Ireland to see if he could survive only speaking Irish and a lot of people were able to understand him mostly due to irish being a compulsory subject in schools but when spoke irish in public or spoke irish to people, people looked uncomfortable and disgusted.

>>17893366
So how do you explain British Asian colonies who got rich? It's a genetic problem not a fucking monetary one, how do you fucking explain how Yugoslavia become a defacto third world superpower after it's countries spent centuries as Ottoman and Austrian colonies?