Yeah, I agree I don't think the 'it all happened a long time ago' thing carries much weight. The effects of it are still felt today. I live in Australia and the reverberations from colonial rule here are still felt strongly to this day. Things are slowly improving and people are seeing and...
So even asking a question based on the motivation of those involved in your fact (I think you mentioned it was a fact) means that I have an agenda and presumable 'hate my country'?
My response to your post was not denying your fact, it was more asking for more detail to see if it proved what...
That is an interesting measure but it really does beg a question about who made the decision to join the commonwealth? Without the detail of that decision making process it is hard to know why the decision was made and on behalf of whom.
One thing that always confuses me about post such as...