Eight centuries enslaved to the Caliphate have left Hispanics with a less than Renaissance mind set. During only five centuries of ‘Christendom’ they just tapered off the Caliphate, transitioning by centuries of Inquisition tapered into centuries of Dictatorships.

Eight centuries of Arab ownership of the Iberians embued them with a culture and a language infused with Arab passivity toward concepts of responsibility and accountability. Example:

English: I broke the glass.
French: J’ai caissez le verre.
Spanish: El vaso se cayó y se rompió. (The glass fell and broke itself).

While French and Italian form the responsible, accountable sentence as do other Indo-Euopean languages, Spanish holds over the Arabic passive “not me!” form.

When an infant learns its mother tongue from its mother, what gets programmed into its little behavioral microchips.

Latin America’s problems are and have always been Latin American. North America, CIA or not, has only inflicted them with science, technology and products, including loans, that they couldn’t come up with themselves.

Back up your opinions with rational argument and fact or leave.

Thank you all for your insightful comments.

Ah, for the good old days, when we and our congressmen could all be “good Germans” and not know what was being done in our name.

With soon to come tax reform, already increasing taxes, the promised reduction of my income by 30-40% (I’m a specialist) and the controls on my practice that would be imposed by the Healthcare Reform Bill, I will have no choice but to retire and either pick up a new profession, stay retired, or leave this country in favor of some other portion of the world.

Either way the costs of running the government continue to increase and the tax base continues to decrease.

The need for an information gathering community is decreasing. This administration and congress is doing far more damage than any terrorist or enemty country could safely do to it. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if those countries and organizations aren’t specifically thwarting anyone from interfering with this government. The last thing they’d want to do is re-unite this country to a common cause.

We’ve known for years that the far left are the most racist element in American society in their disdain for peoples of any color striving for freedom.

It’s a lot worse than that. Their ethnocentrism and racism causes them to see non-whites as children, who can’t get by without their help. This is the reason why they have such extravagant expectations of the Israelis and no expectations of the Palestinians. They don’t see Arabs as full-fledged grown up people. They indulge them as children.

So not only can’t they conceive of Arabs as responsible, they also can’t conceive of them as desiring a modern democracy. And I believe that if you got an ounce or two of ethanol into one, they’d tell you that straight up.

They also look at the white working class the same way, but with a twist: while they are sure that these poor slobs need their enlightened help, they aren’t in any way indulgent. With “brown” people, they’re like indulgent parents. With poor whites, they’re more like abusive parents.

In the end, you can’t ever understand political ideology without understanding individual psychology. This narcissism-driven messiah complex is what motivates all “progressives”. Empires such as the USSR come and go, but narcissism is forever. That’s why we still have these pricks, and always will.

Leaving out the obvious economic absurdity of the premise…

Remember that these are the same Einsteins who think running around breaking windows causes prosperity.

Spain’s traditions of anti-intellectualism and anti-capitalism were exported to the new world. The natives were probably discouraged from doing anything serious with their lives. They were presumably just a bunch of dumb Indians who should know their place in the larger scheme of things. I highly recommend reading Rodney Stark’s, The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. The idiocy of the well meaning Charles V and his equally dense son Philip II severely damaged Spain’s economy. Thank God that the British colonized much of North America—or we also could also be second-rate nations in the 21st Century.