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Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by avgcorrection on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:25PM (#37547942)
> and a huge pool of primarily Western European Protestant immigrants in the 1600, 1700s, 1800s, with a strong culture for independence and a continuous search for prosperity,

That's a long-winded way to say Settler Colonialism.

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Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by oblio on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:54PM (#37550607)
Brazil, Argentina, etc also had settler colonialism. Distinctions are useful.
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Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by avgcorrection on Monday September 18, 2023 @10:44AM (#37556818)
What's the distinction? That the settlers were inferior catholics? (Of course other Europeans at later stages like in Argentina.)

In any case you can cherry-pick any variable you want when talking about such disparate nations.

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Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by oblio on Monday September 18, 2023 @10:54AM (#37556954)
I expanded in another comment:

> "ambitious, motivated, solid work ethic, respect for education and legitimate entreprise".

Spanish and Portuguese settlers, for reasons that are beyond me, didn't manage to create societies where these values are at their core.

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