Hate to burst your bubble, but European colonisation in general, and British colonisation in particular, were positive goods in the world. Take for example, Africa – a dark continent populated by barbarian tribes who constantly enslaved one another, enslaved on million white people, were always warring with one another, and mass-murdered other tribes by burning them alive and then eating their roasted corpses. Britain came to this hellish continent and what did it go? In 1807, it abolished the slave trade throughout the Empire – the first Nation in history to do so – and went through Africa, hunting down slave traders and forcing them out of business, allying with more humane tribes to liberate the Continent from the oppression of the Cannibals. They brought to this uncivilised and untamed continent Christian civilisation, spreading the ideals of natural rights, limited government, rule of law, Christianity, hard work, civilisation, education, free trade, human dignity, and anti-slavery. When they entered Africa, it was a treacherous hellscape – when they left, the barbarians had been converted into educated people with some basic amenities (they could have done far more had they been allowed to stay.) For example, in Kenya, which, thank Heaven, Britain didn't abandon till 1964, the population reaped the benefits of British supervision and are now one of the most prosperous states in Africa, just like South Africa. Where Britain stayed the longest, the people did the best, where Britain stayed the least, or left untouched, the people there did the worst. Thank God for the British Empire.