The fact is, European nations spent centuries forming global empires at the expense of pre-existing civilizations, and in the 1900s left these cultures unprepared to govern themselves after centuries of oppression and subjugation. Saying stuff like "well they were doing it to themselves already" only serves to try to pass off responsibility or deflect There might be some truth to it, but why is that where you jump to, rather than admitting that European nations from their imperialism periods committed atrocities across the globe that much of the world is STILL trying to recover from, up to half a millenium later? It's none of our own personal faults, those of us on either side alive today and discussing this, but it's important to recognize what really happened, and perhaps for some responsibility on national scales to be embraced.
