TradeSurplus
As to telling you where I live; thus far on this thread you have responded to my posts with a strawman parody of my position and a misdirected attack on my posting record. Am I being overly suspicious to think that telling you where I live will be followed up with a pointless attack on my nation and culture?

As it is, I gave you another example of a nation that is a popular topic of discussion on this group, namely Ireland. If you want more, consider Iceland, inhabited for over a millenium IIRC with no overseas colonies. Finland doesn't have very many colonies either unless I'm mistaken. And these three countries are in Europe, the home of overseas colonization. I recently vacationed in the US and came across the Pequot and Narragansett (sp?). I'm not very familiar with their history other than being massacred a few years after sharing the first thanksgiving dinner but I haven't heard that they colonized very many other peoples.

Trade.