What Keith says is very true, but doesn't get us anywhere. No kidding we all have cultural biases, and no kidding "good" and "bad" aren't surgically precise terms.
One consideration is that national boundaries are invariably dictated by colonial boundaries, which for a hell of a lot of countries (especially in Africa) is part of the problem.
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Quote by: gw ]Costa Rica. - bad outcome |
Care to elaborate?
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Canada - decent outcome (exceptions being parts of Toronto & Vancouver)
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What parts are those? And why?
Tech blew it here and, typically of him, misspelled the name. Viet Nam today conforms largely to its
precolonial borders, i.e. as it was settled by an invading Confucian, Chinese-influenced people who drove the indigenous inhabitants up into the mountains. In fact, under the French it was divided into several different colonies.