>Singapore
>no natural resources

It does have almost none though

They import most of their stuff

It's just that they are good with what little they have, same as Ireland

Besides the circumstances are different

Ye I just meant in general

there's got to be a way

Singapore was being industrialized at a point where foreigners were willing to invest heavily in industry

That feeling didnt exist until after world war two. Prior to that all nations wanted as much domestic industry as possible.

Yeah that is a good point I probably should have thought of

Ill have to study Ireland a bit more before i understand how they achieved their current status

Most of my studies has been on the post world war two history of Asian countires

I know a lot about Ireland, It gained its riches from good trade relations, low corporate tax making tons of beef then spent the money gained on educating people and thus also leading in the pharmaceutical industry. Summed up very simplisticly and shortly

Not saying it couldn't be done, but I don't think that what worked for Ireland would be entirely relevant to what could work for the American south. Just Texas alone is 10 times the size of Ireland and a thousand times bigger than Singapore

Yeah I get what you mean, when it comes to industralisation obv the larger the harder

it is to do

Did you know that the legend of Saint Patrick was about the man who drove the original black inhabitants out of Ireland

Ireland was originally an afro-centric colony thats why they are so good at making music

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I'm fairly certain that's wrong, you got a source on that? From what I know it's about him driving the druids from Ireland and converting the people to Catholicism since he believed that the druids were "snakes" as in symbols of evil/charlatans

Source: I'm irish

Have fun 🙃
http://afroperspectives.com/st-patricks-day-decoded/

Those kind of theories quite fascinating me, where you look at author you cannot be sure how much of it its trolling and how much is actually beliving that shit.

Really? That's strange, I've never heard of the Twa people before and my granddad is very into his Irish history, so it's just a little surprising to me.

Yeah, AskHistorians is saying the Twa people being from Ireland was a myth invented around the 1800s-1900s

Website you linked is batshit insane, tho, omg

"Black people celebrating because of genetic memory" Nah, it's an excuse for all people everywhere to get drunk because the bars are full and party-hard, there's also parades and public drunkenness is pretty much ignored

Clearly the Irish just throw the best parties 😛

But yeah all jokes aside the afroperspectives thing is hokey

Leprechauns known for being dwarf-like in size - article names a height that is barely smaller than the average of the time

So what if the leprechauns are just immortal irish men hmm <:TimThink:482277772497125378>

Shit, we've been caught

you know how old people seem to get a bit shorter as time goes on?

what happens if you never die.

you just inverse grow

I've been thinking recently about the pros of a constituional monarchy. I think there is untapped potential that is overlooked in a constitutional monarchy. I'm not saying that one should be put in power, just that it has some benefits.

The main reason I was thinking about this is, if someone spent 20 years being taught to lead a nation it would be a great benefit. Especially, if the person elected into monarchy was a highly qualified individual

who could teach their offspring

/heir

It’s not a merit based system though. Some heirs just aren’t fit to lead.