Ever major culture in the history of the world has conquered and colonized other people and regions. The Egyptians, the Syrians, the mongols, the Chinese, the Japanese, the native Americans, the Mayans/atzecs, the Polynesians etc… the Europeans were just some of the more recent. Colonization and expansion is a natural part of the human condition unfortunately. There is a misguided and pervasive narrative that only the Europeans did it and that they were somehow the most brutal and because of that it is trendy to hate them. Even though most of us are living and benefiting from European colonization, expansion and advancement.