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Originally Posted by jason taylor
Isn't insularity a necessary part of the slur "banana republic"? If they packed enough juice to play the field in a major way no one would call them that.
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Quite the opposite. The proper use of the term is to describe states dependent on the export of a single commodity to provide the money to prop up a nearly sham government - the original example being the various governments of Honduras bought by the United Fruit Company in the 1890s and 1900s. Being completely export dependent and foreign dominated these are anything *but* insular.