International law and the current moral and ethical standards do not allow, at least on the surface, for Europeans to treat others the way they used to. The colonization in the past (not to take away from the modern colonization of countries) created a lot of shitholes around the world. It takes many generations of freedom for a culture to recover from this. It's like a child who has been abused for so long and then expecting a miraculous recovery without healing first. This is similar to what the first nations have gone through. The reason the indigenous in Canada and Australia have so many issues is because they are dealing with what they were put through in the past. It's a broken culture that needs to heal.