(John Smith)

All of Latin America is corrupt, which I take as a legacy of Spain and Southern Europe's traditions of the same, but when mixed with large numbers of Indians, it seems to have reached its heights.

(H. Leonskoi)

Good points. It seems to be a north-south issue. In fact, it seems to be a conflict between certain successful northerners (northern descent) and southerners. This is true even in Europe, the northerners are more successful in the modern world. One might think that the skin tone obsession of everyone, "anti-racists" and race realists, was silly because there is so much more to race and ethnicity than skin-tone, but there are races and ethnicities and it is a significant fact. However, generally the skin tone issue is a good guide to who is aggrieved (jealous, covetous, in denial) and who is successful. The northerners are successful and the southerners are less so. This is even true in Asia. Even the leaders of the societies in Latin America are Spaniards, Basques, and Portuguese, they are no Norwegians (forgetting for the moment the current pathological alturism, a somewhat different issue). Southern and northern Europeans ARE quite different in their approaches and perhaps in their talents.