colonies

QUESTION: Would many of the third world countries who are former colonies of Great Britain, France, U.S.A., etc, be better off today if they were still colonies?

This is an offshoot of the Number Freaking thread: Ant colonies exhibit surprisingly complex behaviour, which emerges from a set of simple rules. In fact, it is almost as though the colony itself is the organism, and the ants merely cells. For example: * When the nest is damaged, the ants...