What is the difference between the colonies in North America and the rest? How would things have been today if all continents were as helped as North America?
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There’s a difference between settler colonialism and extraction colonialism. North American colonies were settled, which led to industry developing on site, so raw materials were used locally and finished products were shipped out in trade. African and Asian colonies were focused (and still are, even though we don’t call it colonialism) on extracting resources to be used in the colonizer’s industry, then re-sold back to the colonies.
So, what we see today as “less development” is really just the aftereffect of colonizers robbing their colonies blind for a few centuries.
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