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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 12 February 2012 05:53:06PM 9 points [-]

All the places Britain has owned, even briefly. I may have been suffering from availability bias. The US, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and India are doing better than a lot of other places, but what about Afghanistan? Nigeria? Syria?

The British may have had more successful ex-colonies than other empires, but this doesn't mean all, or even a majority of their ex-colonies were successful.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 12 February 2012 10:09:29PM 4 points [-]

Not to mention Zimbabwe.