You completely hijacked that story to fit whatever viewpoint you are trying to placard. That's NOT how the story went. The story didn't finish there but went on with the fisherman asking the westerner: "After I get rich, then what? What do I do then?" The westerner replied: "Well, you can retire and sit on a nice beach and relax all day." The fisherman smiled and said to the westerner: "But that's what I am doing now...". The moral of the story is not to point out the difference between the two cultures or how people adapt to their environment, no it's to point out the importance of work-life balance. This has nothing to do with what people are used to or not. There is a basic level of human living conditions and health conditions and dignity that need to be preserved. You can just say we lived in caves millions of years ago so it's ok to live in caves today. We had a child mortality rate of over 50% before and we only lived until our 30s when we were cavemen so it's ok to have so high of a child mortality rate and die so young with the excuse that we are used to it. And just because people are living under absolute dictatorial regimes that don't allow them to even have a trace of thoughts that are different from those in power in fear of persecution doesn't mean that it's ok because people there are used to it and we shouldn't interfere and instead should support the dictatorial regimes that are in place. The thing is in many places, people don't know enough to know that they don't want to be like America. LOL Their access to information is so restrictive due to the heavy censorship and the restriction to travel put in place by the regime they really don't have enough information and are not able to obtain information for them to assess whether they want one political system or not. This is why two of the freedoms protected by the laws in the majority of democratically run societies are the freedom of information and freedom of mobility. When you don't even know enough about what's out there, and what's available, there is no way for you to know what you want and what's the best for you. The problem that you state about America exists everywhere. Does it necessarily negate the fact America is still the best place to be in the world? You won't know that until you have complete access to information and have actually lived in America. I mean there are still more people wanting to come to America than people wanting to leave America to live somewhere else.
Why are you singling out Africa as a continent that need colonization. More than half the countries in Africa have a higher per capita GDP than the South American countries of Bolivia and Venezuela, and Nicaragua and Honduras in Central America. In fact, there are 9 African countries (Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Libya, Mauritius, Seychelles, South Africa) that have higher per capita GDP than not only China, but 5 European countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania).
OP has finally figured out how to racebait w/o getting too "political" for his threads to be moved. Only took him a few years and a dozen burner accounts.
European colonization vastly improved the countries they colonized. They were all primitive and violent area’s prior to colonization. After the europeans left look what happened despite all the infrastructure and everything else the europeans left to them; it was destroyed. South America is another great example. Look at the best countries in south america and those are the ones left with a lot of europeans or european influence. Contrast those countries with haiti.
The problem with colonization is that the tiny benefits do not weight out the huge negative aspects...talking for the colonized country of course. It already starts with a wrong gesture: attacking and taking over another country. Nobody wants to be ruled over.