How are Scandinavian countries so prosperous despite not engaging in external colonialism ?
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When you look at how many people live in the US of a certain national origin vs how many live in the country of that origin, Irish has a 10-1 ratio or something like that. Norwegians are the only other country with more Norwegian-Americans than Norwegians. Sweden and Finland are next on the list.
Also the countries are good at trading and have access to the sea. Denmark taxed the trade to the baltics into the 1850s (when the US decided they didn’t want to pay the tax in Øresund). Denmark-Norway also tried to be neutral in the napoleon wars so we could trade with everyone. It failed but the point is that just because we didn’t have our own colonies didn’t mean we didn’t benefit from trading with other countries’ colonies.
And in modern days because we invest in education and have open and free economies.
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