I find it interesting that colonialism is bashed so much when in reality it brought much of the world into the modern era. would the world really be a better place if colonialism never happened ?
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COMM.7.1.03.HTM
Edit: Their land stolen and plundered.
Like everything more complicated than "1+1=2" or "the sky is blue", it's a superposition of a bunch of pros and cons that different people will all weight differently. Where human nature screws everything up is the brain's tendency to want to focus on one pro or one con and pretend like everything else doesn't matter, or ignore the fact that rational, informed people might still disagree on how each pro or con should be weighted when evaluating whether something is a net good or net bad.
An absolute horrow show of your country being exploited, stunted, and manipulated for centuries for everyone else.