Because they have so many history behind them ,so much national religious attachment that those things come out so strongly there.

因为有很多历史,国家和宗教的感情在里头,这些因素就很重要。

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But yet when you look back from the nineteenth century, these factors do count in explaining how countries turn out to be the way they are.

不过当你从十九世纪开始回顾历史,这些因素的确能解释,国家是如何转变成现在这样的

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