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navegator
Sep 14, 2014Explorer
You can not compare Mexico and Australia, in Australia the British did not go in as conquerors, they established a colony and sent the inmates.
Many were political prisoners, I would compare that to the United States, the British established a colony and proceeded to destroy as much as they could of the native American populations and did not intermix to much.
In Mexico many of the Spaniards came alone with out the women, as opposed to the colonists that came with wife's and children, so the Spaniards took native women for "wife's" and you have the mestizo, also remember that the Spanish brought diseases that the natives had no immunity to and died in great numbers.
Corruption is global, I recall reading of a land fiasco in Arkansas and the Clintons were involved, also a Duke Cunningham that went to jail for taking bribes.
navegator
Many were political prisoners, I would compare that to the United States, the British established a colony and proceeded to destroy as much as they could of the native American populations and did not intermix to much.
In Mexico many of the Spaniards came alone with out the women, as opposed to the colonists that came with wife's and children, so the Spaniards took native women for "wife's" and you have the mestizo, also remember that the Spanish brought diseases that the natives had no immunity to and died in great numbers.
Corruption is global, I recall reading of a land fiasco in Arkansas and the Clintons were involved, also a Duke Cunningham that went to jail for taking bribes.
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