[Gertie]

Don't hold your breath, look at where they are in charge in Africa, look at Haiti, it's an ethnic trait, too bad.

[MrB]

Those are places without a competing culture, or where the competing culture has been forcibly removed.

If allowed to succed or fail on their own in the presence of a competing, more successful culture (Western), they will either conform to the more successful, ie better, culture, or they will be comparatively miserable.