Reply #1: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand haven't had dictators OR civil war.

[Spider Jerusalem]

Like the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were largely settled by British emigrants (in numbers eventually greater than the native populations) who created a common, mostly Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture (which remained largely dominant even in the US, most especially in New England and the South, with later immigrants encouraged to assimilate). Other former British colonies, on the other hand, were never settled by the British in large numbers, and remain populated largely by their native inhabitants, among whom tribal conflict and sectarian religious violence were common before the British arrived, and again after the British left. The recurring cycles of violence. governmental collapse, and dictatorship in former British colonies in Africa, or in Pakistan, etc., are more or less a continuation of conflicts that have existed for centuries.