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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 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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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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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	AskHistorians
Did the casta system of Spanish America exist at all?	39	AskHistorians
How isolated were 19th century prairie farmers really? What was their social life like?	18	AskHistorians
What movie genres were the audience's favorites in each decade? How have popular preferences changed over time?	10	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
In Antebellum America, what would happen if a slave of mixed ancestry looked white?	6	AskHistorians
How true is the idea that anti-miscigenation laws in the USA first arose to separate White indentured servants and Black slaves?	5	AskHistorians
How common were racially exogamous unions in colonial Latin America? Was mestizaje a real thing or is it a modern myth?	5	AskHistorians
What's the explanation for everyone having the same names in Late Medieval Europe?	5	AskHistorians
Why did legal racial segregation develop in the US and South Africa while not anywhere in Latin America?	5	AskHistorians