why are the countries colonized by Spain remain backward or third world countries?
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Progress anywhere depends on the overall degree of enlightenment, including spiritual enlightenment.  Also on the educational system or the lack thereof.  How fulsome it is....continuing education too.  Libraries, teachers, the respect for learning.\n\nYou can think about this yourself.  Too many details offend people and make enemies.  Never disparage, just show a little of the better way when you can, shining the light a bit higher than where they are.\n\nBlinding light does not work and may even get you killed.\n\nSmaller nations have less resources for everything.  Military dictatorships were very stunting.  They are making some progress, especially Chile.
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It's cultural. These countries didn't exist before colonialism, just a series of tribal areas constantly shifting. Colonialism brought many benefits but the tribes still existed within the new boundaries, as soon as we left greed and rivalry ensured a breakdown of all the structures. Our own borders took many hundreds of years to establish. It takes a long time to form a stable Nation. You can lead a horse to water .....
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The Third World was a term coined during the Cold War. At the time the world was divided into two major power blocs, the Communist Bloc represented mainly by the USSR and China and the Western Bloc represented by the USA and Western Europe. \n\nThe Third World simply referred to countries like India or Egypt that were not strongly aligned with either power block. \n\nAlmost all of those countries were also non-industrialised nations with small economies. As a result ‘Third World’ came to refer non-industrialised or underdeveloped nations, and within 15 years everyone had forgotten what the term had originally meant.\n\n\nSorry sandworm, nothing at all to do with the ‘New World’. It was never explicitely stated, but if we had to name them then the First World nations were the westernised capitalist countries such as the NATO nations, Australia and Japan.  The second world were the Communist countries such as the Warsaw Pact countries, China and Cuba.
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I should say not the European nations but European monopolists rushed to seize colonies in Africa and Asia.The countries on these continents weren't developped , so they easily fell under the european leading capitalist countries' rule.(sorry i'm not English speaker and don't know if you understand my words propely).There was a "race" for capturing as more colonies as they could.The colonies were the cheapest labour and the cheapest goods for Europeans.So it helped them in growing their capital a lot.The rush for the colonies began in th 17th c. and the most colonies at first owned Spain and Portugal, this process began with the first discoveries.
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It's very largely a function of geography, and of climate, at least when it comes to which countries are third world countries.  It is also partially how aid is doled out to third world countries, we see first world countries giving aid to corrupt regimes that somehow fail to see to it that the aid gets to where it is truly needed. (There's a big shock)
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Typically the word "western" is used to describe the difference between the wealthy and dominant societies from those who are subjugated economically, militarily by deliberate restraints placed on them by wealthier ones.\n\nA broader term might be that the western countries are descendants of the colonial powers and their legacies, by this definition Australia may be included [as a western country] as a colonial legacy and a relatively wealthy country.\n\nLatin american countries don't tend to fit into this category, although being colonial legacies they tend to have a low GDP and often sanctions placed on them by north america, whether it be by border controls or by trade embargoes. There is no firm definition of the west, but drawing from the various ideologies that are held you could say that they are not western, except in some circumstances. \n\nA firm definition of what western is does not exist so unfortunately there is no perfect answer.\n\nHowever, if you looking for a literal definition, you could say that Latin American couintries are western as they reside in the western hemisphere. Although I don't believe this was what was implied by the question.\n\nWikipedia has a decent article on the definitions of the western world:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_countries
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Archaic economic doctrine, it says that country's well-being is determined by how much gold it has. Was popular in Spain in  16th century, while it had the gold from America, and up untill Spain got pwned by more advanced Britain.
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The main reason third world governments are in trouble is because of their leadership and mentality, not the economic situation. Unfortunately, not everybody has the right priorities. In many third-world countries, you'll see a lot of bad infrastructure, garbage, stray dogs and poor law enforcement, but then see a fair number of people in luxury cars and expensive clothes. I hear in Mexico, the Spanish elite do not want to relinquish their power by spreading their wealth. In Africa, many of the leaders there are total crooks who are all for themselves. \n\nDon't kid yourself, the leaders of many third-world countries send their children to elite Western boarding schools in Europe and the United States, and are themselves graduates of such. They go on to excellent Western universities to study such things as BUSINESS and ECONOMICS, or engineering, so on and so foth. So, they're not being cheated because they're stupid, but they may not have anything to bargain with.
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Spaniards of Spain are Spaniards. People from Latin America are not.
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Buying?..lol, than why didn't they use that money and get industrialized, rather called "developing world"? It is stealing, and these countries happened to be poor and unable to defend their resources, because puppet regimes allowed this to happen.
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Spain, France, and Britain?
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Technically, the term West Indies doesn't actually refer to a specific place. But rather to the people of the Caribbean islands and some parts of South America, who were joined together by Colonial governments. Is that what you're referring to?
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It goes by the world systems theory of dependency.  This says that a country in debt will always be in debt, third-world countries will always be third-world, and elite economic countries will always be elite.  See, Africa has to accept loans and aid from the economic "North", or richer countries, to pay off other loans.  This just makes a vicious cycle.  The worst thing is, no one really knows how to fix the problem.
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if you are talking about spanisch colonization i van help you.........Philippines was colonizes by Spain. what does spain wants to Philippines is the 3G(gold, God and glory). they want money, glory (fame) and spread the catholicism in us. the spain can get the glory and money by introducing the Catholic religion to us. why religion? they are scarying us that God will punish us if we dont do the right thing and the right thing is to follow what the spain government will tell us!
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Do you mean what is A third world country?  Well, there is a no such thing.  All countries are part of this world..."third world" is a derogatory reference.
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The Spaniards felt it was their moral obligation to convert "the heathens".  So they worked really hard to not only colonize these countries, but to convert everyone.  To my understanding, it was a pretty violent thing and people didn't necessarily choose Catholicism.  The natives were very resistent and they tried to maintain their original religions by hiding symbols of their religion, etc. in churches.  This explains why the Catholicism in Latin America is a little bit different than Catholicism in other countries...it's a sort of mix of native religions and Spanish Catholicism, called "sincretismo".
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Mexico, and ultimately the United States (we got land later) benefited. Spain lost out.