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In the 1960s, South Korea's GDP per capita was smaller than Brazil's; today it's 4x larger. Why could the Asian tigers develop but Latin America couldn't?

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Did the casta system of Spanish America exist at all?

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How isolated were 19th century prairie farmers really? What was their social life like?

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What movie genres were the audience's favorites in each decade? How have popular preferences changed over time?

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Why didn't the US South, unlike every other slave society in the Americas, develop a society of whites, black slaves and a numerous mixed-race free population?

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In Antebellum America, what would happen if a slave of mixed ancestry looked white?

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How common were racially exogamous unions in colonial Latin America? Was mestizaje a real thing or is it a modern myth?

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What's the explanation for everyone having the same names in Late Medieval Europe?

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Why did legal racial segregation develop in the US and South Africa while not anywhere in Latin America?

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How true is the idea that anti-miscigenation laws in the USA first arose to separate White indentured servants and Black slaves?

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In the 1960s, South Korea's GDP per capita was smaller than Brazil's; today it's 4x larger. Why could the Asian tigers develop but Latin America couldn't?	145
Did the casta system of Spanish America exist at all?	39
How isolated were 19th century prairie farmers really? What was their social life like?	18
What movie genres were the audience's favorites in each decade? How have popular preferences changed over time?	10
Why didn't the US South, unlike every other slave society in the Americas, develop a society of whites, black slaves and a numerous mixed-race free population?	8
In Antebellum America, what would happen if a slave of mixed ancestry looked white?	6
How common were racially exogamous unions in colonial Latin America? Was mestizaje a real thing or is it a modern myth?	5
What's the explanation for everyone having the same names in Late Medieval Europe?	5
Why did legal racial segregation develop in the US and South Africa while not anywhere in Latin America?	5
How true is the idea that anti-miscigenation laws in the USA first arose to separate White indentured servants and Black slaves?	5