Comments by "D. San" (@DSan-kl2yc) on "Why did the Spanish Empire collapse?" video.

@pacomaciasarrate6809 well you're partly wrong. The countries you mentioned have been unstable. And there are countries that don't have any major division by ethnic lines. And you should be careful with such lines as they're often used by racists. And what you've written comes off as you're trying to blame a different group of people of not being white as your reasoning. What happened is simply that each region mostly views itself as an ethnicity. The tensions were not along ethnicities. It was people in power, maintaining it, versus actually developing everything else. Well some issues might exist in a most classist or racist way, there's very little ethnic tension by the time the countries were founded, or the centuries after, that had instability. Then again, Spain itself fared badly. And I'm not sure but did they have help after from the EU. Or just being in such a stable region. Benefits a lot of other countries just didn't have. Also while they started ruling over the natives... The natives mostly died out from disease(made worst by exploitation). Like the vast majority was Spaniards over time. Trying to say that there weren't colonies of immigrants is also partly wrong. They were immigrants. They were colonies. They were a colony of immigrants. They just also included mixed kids. The same as the countries you mentioned. It's just that some mixed more, or with different groups over time. Like any country does.
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@edwardhayes6111 heh yea they did. And the U.S Americans were allowed to immigrant with conditions that they didn't follow. I think thats where the right-wing fear in the border is, projection of what happened
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@alcapone4635 they actually kinda did. At first and then incidentally with disease.
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@arriba_teruel it wasn't from the start. There was a period where they treated them harshly. Well it depends. But it did improve over time. And they did integrate them.
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