Europe was not a great power the European governments were. I am sick of white people trying to take credit for what a successful imperial order did. Most of your ancestors were serfs and peasant that were assimilated by that machine as well. Those colonial engines used dark skin ppl, Indian, blacks, Asian and whatever else to conquer new world's and land. Here is a fact: only 2% of the American population back then owned slaves, and you can guess in which bracket they were so SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT BEING MORE CIVILIZED and feeling as if you can school Africans when most of europe still don't have working toilets. Oh and in america, there is a lot of Black and Hispanic people's fingerprints all over the buildings, infrastructure and monuments that you so love, cherish and represent. What about that God awful place called eastern Europe?. No one else mention the trafficking. Slavery etc that exist there. The middle east's assisted suicide and you are worried about a few dissatisfied locals burning down a few things from a foreign culture that they can't relate to? Truth is the western powers are an entity that has the ability to completely change any region people or place that they take an interest to. Which is why eastern Europe is still shitty, and the not so Aryan people of East Asian country known as Japan are not. The U.A.E is build by two groups of people western corporation and sweaty Indian and Bangladeshi men and migrant workers. But are you going to give them credit? No. Likewise infrastructures in south Africa were built by colonial empires and interest and hard working black south Africans with a bunch of ethnically white people cheering on the side like some cheer leaders just because because those faces on that empire happens to be white. You are retarded and they will show you that soon enough when they are done taking in all the migrants that they need into your little precious border.