What Mexico and Ghana share!

According results of Transparency International, with a rank of 69, Ghana is a LESS corrupt country than Mexico, ranking at 72! Good news is that Mexico is still less corrupt than Iraq, Haiti and Somalia…  

I have a theory that Mexicans have a gene that makes them corrupt by birth! Let me explain…

Mexicans always have been an oppressed population… First, before the colonization, they where oppressed by a bunch of warriors, the Aztecs… Then the Spaniards oppressed them from 1492 to 1810. Then Mexico became independent, and the Gringos and French invaded them… Finally in 1938, after the revolution and after kicking out the Americans and British (and their oil interests),  Mexicans became more or less independent. This time to become oppressed by a Mexican political elite running the country…

Of course, if you are oppressed, there is no reason for you to do the things the right way… Actually, you will do your best to do things in the wrong way! So after several centuries of oppression, Mexicans have (in my point of view) a gene which disable them doing the things in the right way… This results in a corrupt society…

And after a closer look at Transparency International’s report, I detected that the 10 less corrupt countries are countries which have never been colonized AND never colonized others… (except The Netherlands, ranking 7)… 

Although if you check the list of the most corrupt countries you will see that all of them have a history of colonization, oppression and wars… 

Transparency International Corruption Report here: http://www.transparency.org/publications/publications/annual_reports/annual_report_2007