You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic? "Notoriously not. Pioneers never are." - Isaac Asimov

What do you require to exchange your ideas for mine?” “You think my convictions are for sale?” “Why not?” came the cold response. “Isn’t that your business, buying and selling?” “Only at a profit,” said Mallow,

That was the result of a childhood immersed in an atmosphere of bigotry so complete that it was almost invisible, so entire that you accepted its axioms as second nature. Then you left it and saw it for what it was when you looked back.

Dors Venabili had not eaten either and she seemed the most tense and unhappy of the three.